Running some things through my head with Steve King

I am not going for the low fruit and dwell on quarterback Baker Mayfield’s four interceptions in Saturday’s 24-22 loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Since turnovers are so lethal, especially in the present-day NFL when, with so much scoring, teams have to get points on almost every possession in order to be able to keep up in the track meet-cycle of offense, it’s obvious that those are what flipped the game in favor of the Packers and against the Browns. After all, Green Bay converted the three first-half picks into three touchdowns.

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What you would be missing by doing that is failing to ask the bigger, and more telling, question: Why were the Browns passing so much anyway when their rushing attack was going gangbusters?

The Browns run the ball so well as a rule and were running it especially well against the Packers. That was the obvious — there’s that word again — mind-set for the Browns heading into the game, since Green Bay’s run defense has been so porous all season. Why the Browns got away from that and instead got into a passing contest with future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers — why they didn’t just keep handing the ball off to Nick Chubb, especially, but also D’Ernest Johnson — is mind-boggling.

But to be honest, you see this all the time in football at every level, all the way down to high school, whereby something works and works and works again, with the defense seemingly being unable to stop it, and then the offense goes off-script and, for some unknown reason, does something opposite.

Why?

Why?

Why?

Indeed, why would you do that? Why would you make it harder for yourself?

If it works, then just keep doing it. Why would you deviate from that? Why would you even think about deviating from that?

I don’t know. I just don’t know.

But it’s happened way too many times with the Browns this season and their impressive rushing attack, and because of that, they have a lot of explaining to do.

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