Cleveland Browns: Studs and duds from Week 16 win
By Randy Gurzi
The Cleveland Browns swept the Cincinnati Bengals with their Week 16 win. Here we look back at the 26-18 victory with our studs and duds.
Even though they were eliminated from playoff contention on Saturday night, the Cleveland Browns entered their Week 16 game with a lot of passion. They were set on defeating the Cincinnati Bengals, which would accomplish several things for them.
One, it guaranteed the Bengals would finish last in the AFC North — which is always better than seeing the Browns down there. Second, it meant the Browns would have swept Cincinnati, and they ended up doing so in two convincing games.
On top of that, it gave them another chance to show up Hue Jackson. The former Cleveland head coach was awful for them during his two and a half year tenure and then he went on several sports talk shows to blame everyone on the Browns for his record.
Cleveland players took exception to him blaming them and they had no problem showing that. Damarious Randall picked off a pass and handed it to Jackson. Mayfield called him fake after the win and made fun of him heading south after being canned.
They were able to go out and accomplish their goal, handing Jackson and the rest of the Bengals another loss. In the process of doing that, the Browns wound up winning their third game in a row — which they hadn’t done since 2014. Now we take a look back over the game and select our weekly studs and duds.