So, if the Browns didn’t feel badly enough already after their embarrassingly bad 45–14 loss to the Houston Texans last Saturday in the wildcard round of the AFC playoffs, now there’s the fact that the quarterback they cast away, Baker Mayfield, passed for 337 yards and three touchdowns in leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 32–9 triumph over the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday night in the NFC playoffs.

Mayfield was masterful, looking like he did in his early days with the Browns, in taking a mediocre team like the Bucs, with a whole lot less talent than the Browns have, into the divisional round, where they will play the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

Yes, the Browns are sitting home, while Mayfield has become one of the hottest stories in the NFL right now.

The quarterback the Browns will be banking on next year, Deshaun Watson, is still recovering from shoulder surgery that caused his season to come to a premature end. He has done nothing in his two years with the Browns. He would need to use a set of binoculars to see from where he’s at right now to the divisional round of the postseason.

It’s all a bad look for the Browns, and need deserve bad looks for the way they played against Houston.

They have to wait until next season now to change that narrative. Meanwhile, the Mayfied and the Bucs are one win away from a spot in the NFC Championship Game.

We just thought we’d point all of this out, just in case the Browns were trying to let it slide by without having it brought up to them.

Steve King