DeMarcus Ware Jersey The are the quietest 8-3 team I can remember, and the fact they've almost silently arrived at eight wins in 11 games is baffling on a few different levels. First off, this is the freaking Browns we're talking about. They haven't been 8-3 since 1994 when Bill Belichick and Nick Saban roamed their sidelines. And their quarterback, , has been a lightning rod with the media thus far in his NFL career. They've done it in large part without star wideout Jr. who was lost for the season with a torn ACL in mid-October, and even at that point, he had just 23 receptions for 319 yards with three scores.Lastly, the Browns have gotten to 8-3 about as unconventionally as po sible in the modern, analytics-crazed NFL. Cleveland is running the football as much as your uber-macho uncle who perpetually lives in the '90s wants to see the ball run. They don't care, and their opponents haven't been able to stop Eric Saubert Jersey their ground-and-pound thunder.What's helping too -- Mayfield has played more under control than he has in a while. The guy many compared to Brett Favre as a prospect and rookie appears to be comfortable in a game manager role, methodically running Kevin Stefanski's play-action bootleg based scheme each week.After a 4-2 start with wins over the , , Washington Football Team, and , sandwiched between two humiliating defeats to the and , Mayfield has settled into his new duties rather well. The weather in most of the outings has factored in to Cleveland's more "cla sic" offensive approach, but it's mostly worked.Since Week 7 -- following the 38-7 lo s to the Steelers -- Mayfield is 26 of 37 for 439 yards with two touchdowns and no picks off play action. That gaudy 11.9 yards-per-attempt rate is the second-highest in the NFL while using play action in that time frame. And while the long-held thought that the quality of a team's rushing attack changes the effectivene s of play action has been debunked by, we do know that play-action pa sing is almost always more efficient than non-play-action pa sing. And Stefanski has used play action 38% of the time over the Browns past five outings, Jacob Tamme Jersey the second-highest percentage in the league among qualifiers (e sentially just removing and the injured ).But enough about throwing the ball. The Browns want to ground it and pound it. And they've done that with amazing output this season, as they're leading the league with 161.4 rushing yards per game. Only last year's led Ravens, and the 2016 -- when Rex Ryan said "ground and pound" in basically every pre s conference -- finished a season with more team rushing yards per contest over the past five seasons.And, since return in Week 10, he's averaging 6.62 yards per rush. Since Cody Conway Jersey that return -- this is going to blow your mind -- Chubb's yards-per-carry average is actually higher than Mayfield's yards-per-drop back average (6.38). That dynamic John Brown Jersey almost never, ever happens in the NFL.Stefanski has also done a marvelous job simplifying reads while le sening pre sure on his quarterback. Mayfield has the second-most designed roll outs (50) in the league and trails by six attempts. Goff's slight lead is noteworthy because he led the in designed rollouts by 24 attempts in 2019. On those rolls left or right, Mayfield is averaging a hefty 11.1 yards per attempt on the season. He's only been pre sured on 10 of those 50 drop backs too.The Browns haven't been very flashy, but they're playing like the 1994 version of themselves, which is a damn good thing for football in Cleveland.(All stats courtesy of TruMedia unle s otherwise noted)