Cleveland Browns: Where to go from an embarrassing 4-4 start

The Cleveland Browns Super Bowl aspirations are long gone. At 4-4, the team has a week of soul searching to do before a chance to salvage their season.

The Cleveland Browns are now 4-4 on the season, and after an inexcusable 15-10 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team is in a soul-searching mode in hopes of salvaging the season – or at least they should be.

Baker Mayfield finished the day with 225 yards on 20 of 31 attempts averaging just over seven yards per pass. Make of the statistics what you’d like. That has played out on social media for long enough.

In an alternate world, Mayfield finishes at least 25 of 31. And we know that to be a fact because we all watched the Cleveland Browns offense drop five passes Sunday in what may have been the most confusing game to date.

Cleveland Browns: Where to go from an embarrassing 4-4 start

Jarvis Landry, rarely known for dropping passes, lost two targets and fumbled another in what was his poorest outing yet as a Brown. Austin Hooper dropped a walk-in touchdown early in the game, and D’Ernest Johnson another. To add salt to that wound, Odell Beckham Jr. brought in just one of six targets by the end of the day.

There are clear problems surrounding this Cleveland Browns team right now, and it isn’t just what happened on Sunday. Let’s take a brief, albeit painful, look at where things have gone wrong, and what Cleveland can do to make the most of what games they have left on the season.