Browns @ Buccaneers · Week 2

WEEK 2 · FINAL

THE READ

Buccaneers run away with it, 45-14

Buccaneers were never troubled, putting Browns away 45-14. Baker Mayfield was steady for Buccaneers — 17/23, 417 yards, 6 TD, 3 INT. Shemar Stewart was the problem for Buccaneers — 3 sacks. Through the air: Buccaneers 417, Browns 92.

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THE WIDER PICTURE

Team	SRS	SOS	MARGIN	TO +/-
Browns	-17.5	-1.1	-16.3	-2
Buccaneers	+10.9	-3.8	+14.7	+4

SRS is how many points a side beats an average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20. SOS is how hard that schedule has been. Full table.

Buccaneers — NFC #2 · division · 7-2 Playoff picture →

In the MVP race

#5 Baker Mayfield QB · Buccaneers · 9.4% of the field

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IN THE BOOTH

Nicole Santos Beat reporter

Baker Mayfield threw for 417 yards and 6 touchdowns in the second half of his season, and the Buccaneers didn't need to run the ball at all—they scored 45 on a defense that couldn't touch him. Cleveland's 1-4 record is looking less like a rough start and more like the reality of the roster.

Marcus Reyes The numbers guy · replying

Eli Stowers caught 3 balls for 120 yards—the kind of afternoon that tells you he's the one who can actually separate in this passing attack, which matters when your run game doesn't exist.

They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers — none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that did not happen.

Baker Mayfield

Buccaneers

17/23, 417 yards, 6 TD, 3 INT

Shemar Stewart

Buccaneers

3 sacks

Eli Stowers

Buccaneers

3 catches, 120 yards, 1 TD

WHAT DECIDED IT

Through the air Buccaneers 417, Browns 92 Buccaneers

On the ground Browns 161, Buccaneers -3 Browns

Total yards Buccaneers 414, Browns 253 Buccaneers

Pressure Buccaneers 4 sacks, Browns 0 Buccaneers

THE ROOM Final. The recap is below.

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THE MATCHUP SCOUT every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling

LEAGUE DATA counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it

Run-heavy Pass 43% · Rush 57% · 16.2 scored, 32.6 allowed

5.5 yds/att 41.4% completions 5.1 yds/carry 249.1 yds/game 1.6 giveaways/game 12.1% sack rate last 5: 0-5

Primary weapon: Johnny Wilson WR — 50% of the receiving yards · DEPENDENCY VERY HIGH

SAPPHIRE METRICS QB efficiency 18 · Turnover-prone Balance 84 Ball security 56 Back usage 48% QB runs 4.4/game

Most exposed: pressure -- sacked on 12.1% of dropbacks

PERSONNEL off the roster — unit averages, best starters only

QB 76 WR 78 TE 81 RB 83 OL 84 DL 77 LB 82 DB 88

Best: Trent Williams C 99 Fastest: Isaiah Bond WR 93 SPD 10 at star dev or better

YOUR NOTEBOOK what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic

HOW THEY PLAY the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season

nardwick

Buccaneers · his last 8 games

Throws it Gives it away Runs the quarterback

Pass / run91% / 9% Points for / against39.1 — 28.2 Margin+10.9 Giveaways a game2.0 Sacks taken4.2% of dropbacks Lead backBucky Irving · 2.2/g Top targetAdonai Mitchell · 23% QB carries1.0 a game

RENT DUE

Browns · his last 8 games

Runs it One back One target Takes sacks

Pass / run44% / 56% Points for / against15.6 — 30.5 Margin-14.9 Giveaways a game1.6 Sacks taken12.8% of dropbacks Lead backQuinshon Judkins · 20.4/g Top targetJohnny Wilson · 51% QB carries4.0 a game

Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.

THE SERIES RENT DUE against nardwick — the men, not the teams

nardwick leads it 1-0. nardwick won the last one.

1 meeting avg 14.0 — 45.0 biggest: 31 pts to nardwick

S1 · week 2 RENT DUE 14 — 45 nardwick NARDWICK

Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.

MATCHUP ADVANTAGES unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push

Browns receivers vs Buccaneers secondary 78 v 88 BUCCANEERS

Buccaneers receivers vs Browns secondary 85 v 88 BROWNS

Browns line vs Buccaneers front 84 v 86 EVEN

Buccaneers line vs Browns front 81 v 77 BUCCANEERS

Browns backs vs Buccaneers run defence 83 v 83 EVEN

Buccaneers backs vs Browns run defence 84 v 79 BUCCANEERS

Browns passer vs Buccaneers secondary 76 v 88 BUCCANEERS

Buccaneers passer vs Browns secondary 96 v 88 BUCCANEERS

TOP PERFORMERS

Baker Mayfield QB Buccaneers 417 pass yds

Quinshon Judkins HB Browns 148 rush yds

Eli Stowers TE Buccaneers 120 rec yds

Adonai Mitchell WR Buccaneers 103 rec yds

Ted Hurst III WR Buccaneers 86 rec yds

Johnny Wilson WR Browns 69 rec yds

Bucky Irving HB Buccaneers 55 rec yds

Emeka Egbuka WR Buccaneers 53 rec yds

Shemar Stewart REDG Buccaneers 3 sacks

Kelee Ringo FS Buccaneers 2 INTs

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BOX SCORE

BROWNS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Taylen Green QB	3/21	92	1	2	4	41	21.6

BUCCANEERS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Baker Mayfield QB	17/23	417	6	3	1	85	115.7

BROWNS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG	FUM
Quinshon Judkins HB	26	148	5.7	0	4	43	37	0
Taylen Green QB	7	10	1.4	1	0	4	11	1
KC Concepcion Jr WR	1	3	3	0	0	3	3	0

BUCCANEERS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG	FUM
Baker Mayfield QB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bucky Irving HB	2	-3	-1.5	0	0	0	0	0

BROWNS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Johnny Wilson WR	2	69	34.5	1	18	0	41
Zack Kuntz TE	1	23	23	0	2	0	23

BUCCANEERS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	LNG
Eli Stowers TE	3	120	40	1	56	85
Adonai Mitchell WR	4	103	25.8	2	39	66
Ted Hurst III WR	2	86	43	1	12	58
Bucky Irving HB	6	55	9.2	1	43	23
Emeka Egbuka WR	2	53	26.5	1	13	28

BROWNS

PLAYER	TKL	INT
Isaiah Simmons FS	4	1
JL Skinner SS	3	1
JuJu Brents CB	2	1
Carson Schwesinger MIKE	2	0
Patrick Surtain II CB	1	0
Mason Graham DT	1	0
Denzel Ward CB	1	1
Joshua Uche REDG	1	0

BUCCANEERS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	INT	PD	FF
Troy Andersen MIKE	5	1	0	0	1
Shemar Stewart REDG	3	3	0	1	0
Keionte Scott CB	2	0	0	2	0
Jacob Parrish CB	2	0	0	2	0
Zyon McCollum CB	2	0	0	1	0
Antoine Winfield Jr FS	2	0	0	1	0
Cor'Dale Flott SS	2	0	0	0	0
Benjamin Morrison CB	2	0	0	0	0
Vita Vea DT	2	0	0	0	0
Kelee Ringo FS	1	0	2	0	0
Calijah Kancey DT	1	0	0	0	0
Rueben Bain Jr. LEDG	1	0	0	0	0

BROWNS

nothing recorded

BUCCANEERS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Chase McLaughlin K	1/1	6/6	29

RECENT FORM

Browns

L 21–49 vs Jaguars WK 1

Buccaneers

W 42–17 vs Jets WK 1

W 35–0 vs Bengals WK 1

TEAM STATS

Browns		Buccaneers
253	TOTAL YARDS	414
92	PASSING YARDS	417
161	RUSHING YARDS	-3
4	SACKS ALLOWED	1
0	SACKS MADE	4
3	GIVEAWAYS	3
4	TAKEAWAYS	3

Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.

ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD

0 BROWNS — 1 BUCCANEERS

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