Cleveland Chaos: Baker Mayfield, OBJ and the Failing Browns

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Another NFL weekend. Another Browns loss, accompanied by off-the-field headlines. This time, Jermaine Whitehead released after a series of threatening tweets. Cleveland's season was not supposed to go this way. With the addition of OBJ, the team had high hopes going into 2019. But now, the Baker Mayfield-led Browns sit at just 2-6. How did they get here and where do they go now? Browns reporter Jake Trotter joins Mina Kimes to explore why Cleveland fell apart. Plus, Mina wants you to know why Michigan State may be for real this season, as the college basketball season tips off with tonight's Champions Classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	2419, your final score.
0:03.2	The Broncos get the win over the Browns.
0:05.7	And look, for Cleveland, moving forward, your two and six.
0:09.0	Where do you go from here?
0:13.4	It wasn't supposed to be like this.
0:16.2	The Cleveland Browns started the season as perhaps the most hyped team in the NFL.
0:22.0	In predictions of Baker-Mayfield, throwing to OBJ and the Super Bowl were rampant. But now, the Browns are two and six,
0:28.3	with no sign of turning things around anytime soon. Today, what went wrong in Cleveland?
0:34.7	And am I somehow responsible? I'm Mina Kimes. It's Tuesday, November 5th. This is ESPN Daily,
0:43.3	presented by Dell Small Business. I'm looking at two pictures that circulated on the internet.
0:50.5	One is Baker Mayfield wearing what appears to be a trench coat of sorts at his
0:54.8	post-game presser after the Browns lost to the Broncos. This photo has been memed a lot.
1:01.2	Baker's been compared to the robbers in Home Alone, amongst other things. The other photo
1:06.6	is a picture of Baker Mayfield from this summer. He is also wearing a trench coat, but he looks
1:12.6	happy and vibrant, he striding confidently behind a pack of dogs. It is the cover of ESPN, the magazine,
1:19.2	and it says, Baker Mayfield and the Browns have a new leash on life. The author of that cover story
1:26.3	is me. Jake, as the Browns reporter, I feel I have to ask you,
1:31.1	did I curse this team? No. They haven't been to the playoffs in 17 years. They haven't won the
1:36.4	division in 30 years. Jake Trotter reports on the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. They've had 30 quarterbacks
1:42.9	since coming back to the NFL in 1999. Of course,
1:45.3	Art Modell took the team to Baltimore. You are not the curse of the Browns. The Browns are already
1:50.8	cursed. I wonder the same thing at times. Like, am I the reason this team is where it's at?
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