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There was anything but a more advertised group in the National Football Association this off season than the Cleveland Tans. At the focal point of that tropical storm of overstatement were the two men who overwhelmed upper east Ohio a year prior: quarterback Dough puncher Mayfield and lead trainer Freddie Kitchens. 

All things considered, three games into the season, the promotion encompassing the Tans seems to have been brimming with sound and wrath, connoting nothing. Subsequent to falling 20-13 to the Los Angeles Smashes on Sunday night, the Tans are 1-2 and look not at all like the Super Bowl contender some described them. 

What's more, the folks who were featured as establishment rescuers are a major piece of the issue. 

In decency, Cleveland's issues go past Mayfield and Kitchens. The hostile line has been awful, positioning 28th in the NFL in pass assurance through about fourteen days, per Football Untouchables. No group in the class was punished progressively over the initial two weeks of the period than Cleveland—including a crazy 18 punishments for 182 yards in a victory misfortune to the Tennessee Titans in Week 1. 

Nonetheless, inordinate punishments are meaningful of an absence of control—which without a doubt falls under the domain of a lead trainer who shows up in a tough situation three games into his residency. 

Kitchens landed the Cleveland position in huge part due to the hostile turnaround the group experienced a year ago once he accepted play-calling obligations after Shade Jackson and Todd Haley were terminated. He sent imaginative arrangements and made intense play calls that continued contradicting resistances on their heels. 

None of that is anyplace to be found in 2019. Entering Sunday night, the Tans positioned an unremarkable sixteenth in complete offense, 25th in surging and 25th in scoring. That last figure isn't showing signs of improvement after the Tans oversaw only 13 against the Rams. Cleveland's 16.3 focuses per game following three weeks is over a touchdown not exactly a year ago's normal of 22.4. 

Mind you, this is an offense that should be significantly more unstable with the expansion of genius hideout Odell Beckham Jr. Rather, it's a conflicting chaos that pitches and reels its way down the field before punting or making due with a field objective. 

The play calls that were so inventive are presently either exhausting or strange. Notwithstanding averaging 5.2 yards per convey as a youngster, running back Scratch Chubb conveyed the ball multiple times just because this season in Sunday night's misfortune. Despite the lacks in advance, Kitchens has repeatedly put Mayfield in void shotgun sets. 

At that point there was the fourth and-9 draw play from the Rams' 40 in the final quarter of a four-point game. 

Indeed, you read that right. A draw play. On fourth and-9. 

After the game, Kitchens recognized that specific piece of play-calling splendor may have been less than ideal. 

"Terrible call," he stated, by means of Jeremy Bergman of NFL.com. "Indeed, I needed that call. ... It simply didn't work. It was a terrible call." 

Do ya think, Freddie? 

Also, that wasn't even the most noticeably terrible fax pas of the night. With the ball at the Rams' 4-yard line and his group down seven late, Kitchens didn't once try running the ball with Chubb, despite the fact that Cleveland had every one of the three breaks and the second-year full back was effectively the Tans' best hostile player in the game. 

Rather, Kitchens went with four Mayfield passes. That went about just as you'd expect in case you've watched Mayfield play this season. 

Subsequent to establishing a freshman precedent for passing touchdowns a year ago, Mayfield was blessed a whiz in-holding up in the off season. With Beckham and Jarvis Landry available to him, Mayfield made certain to be the following enormous thing under focus in the NFL. His face fired springing up in advertisements. His name was referenced in MVP discussions. 

Hayfield's been a thing in 2019, okay. However, "huge" isn't actually the best descriptor for it. 

Against the Rams, Mayfield finished only 50% of his 36 goes for 195 yards and a touchdown—with the game-fixing capture attempt. In two of Mayfield's three games, the top in general pick in the 2018 draft has neglected to finish even 55 percent of his passes. He's tossed only three touchdown conflicts with five block attempts. His passer rating is more than 20 lower than it was a year ago. 

It's mostly a component of the horrible pass security Mayfield has gotten, yet actually he's hearing strides. Time and again Sunday night, Mayfield took off before he expected to because of a paranoid fear of a pass surge he suspected was coming. Hayfield is additionally missing open collectors and constraining tosses that never ought to be endeavored. 

CLEVELAND, Gracious - SEPTEMBER 22: Pastry specialist Mayfield #6 of the Cleveland Tans tosses a go during the second from last quarter of the game against the Los Angeles Rams at FirstEnergy Arena on September 22, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Kitchens gave a valiant effort after the game to divert fault from his quarterback. 

"In case you're hoping to accuse someone, accuse me," Kitchens said. "Try not to accuse any of our players. Try not to accuse any of our different mentors. Simply accuse me, cause I can take it. So simply accuse me. Go compose your article. Let's assume I wrecked the game. Go compose your article and state it's my shortcoming cause things aren't appearing as though they did a year ago in light of the fact that it is." 

Hayfield furnished a proportional payback. 

"I recognize what you all are going to attempt to do is discussion about the play-calling," Mayfield said. "Execution is most significant than whatever we have called. We need to carry out our responsibility." 

Apologies, folks. There's a lot of this pie to go around. Everybody gets a cut. 

This isn't to say the Tans are damned. Or then again that Mayfield overlooked how to play football. However, changes should be made at this point. 

For Kitchens, it implies not proceeding to consider plays that haven't worked. The hostile line won't improve except if the Tans include faculty (I hear there's a handle in Washington, D.C., searching for another group), however that is not likely. Along these lines, regardless of whether it's with brisk passes or max-secure developments, Kitchens needs to make up for Cleveland's failings in advance. Inclining more on Chubb and the running match-up isn't the most exceedingly terrible thought either. 

If the weights of being lead trainer and play-guest are to be faulted, surrender the last obligations to Todd Monken. Monkey was the hostile organizer for the alliance's third-positioned offense in 2018. 

Hayfield needs to take a full breath and unwind. It likely could be more difficult than one might expect, however moving to the privilege each time he sees weight (genuine or envisioned) isn't particularly useful—particularly when it's actually what safeguards anticipate that him should do. Nor are urgency hurls or tosses into windows that aren't open. 

CLEVELAND, OHIO - SEPTEMBER 22: Quarterback Dough puncher Mayfield #6 of the Cleveland Tans hopes to conflict with the Los Angeles Rams during the second quarter of the game at FirstEnergy Arena on September 22, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. 

The Tans have the ability to make something happen. That the group kept it together against the guarding NFC champions regardless of an optional that has been assaulted by wounds demonstrates that Cleveland isn't that distant. 

In any case, whatever the Tans will do, they have to do it rapidly. Sunday night's misfortune commenced a fierce stretch: at the Baltimore Ravens next Sunday, at the unbeaten San Francisco Erse, home against the Seattle Seahawks and after that an excursion to Gillette Arena to play the Super Bowl champion New Britain Nationalists following a bye week. In case Cleveland plays the manner in which it has, it will be a 1-6 train wreck. 

What's more, the two men who everybody thought would lead the Tans to magnificence will be generally to fault.