Baker Mayfield and Myles Garrett making the most of their homecoming.
It was anything but difficult to overlook the environmental factors were recognizable for Odell Beckham Jr., as well.
Mayfield tossed for two scores, including one set up when Garrett had a strip sack in a third consecutive game, and Beckham scored multiple times and the Cleveland Browns clutched beat the Dallas Cowboys 49-38 on Sunday.
The Cleveland quarterback was playing at the home of the Cowboys unexpectedly since winning a Big 12 title with Oklahoma there three years back. Presently the Austin local has the Browns at 3-1 unexpectedly since 2001.
“No, and I don’t really care,” Mayfield said when asked if he knew it had been 19 years since Cleveland won three of its first four games. “It’s 2020 and we’re moving on to the next one.”
Garrett played only a couple of miles from where he grew up and played secondary school football, on a field he visited a few times at Texas A&M before turning into the No. 1 in general draft pick in 2017.
Beckham Jr.? He spent his initial six seasons with the New York Giants, a once-a-year guest for the Cowboys as NFC East opponents. So there were a lot of individuals, even with the pandemic-decreased horde of 25,021, who had seen him celebrating in an AT&T Stadium end zone previously.
Beckham topped his enormous day with a 50-yard scoring pursue on an opposite the Cowboys had sliced a 41-14 shortfall to three late in the final quarter with three straight scores and 2-point changes.
“It’s funny, Kareem (Hunt) before the play was like, `We just need 5 yards,” said Beckham, who had 81 yards getting and two scores with 73 yards hurrying on two inverts in his initial three-score game in almost five years.
“And Harrison Bryant, the rookie is giving me advice and coaching me up and telling me to stay inbounds. I said, `Thanks, rook.’ And I turned the corner and everybody was blocking and I just turned the jets on and found the end zone.”
Dak Prescott had his initial 500-yard game, tossing for 502 yards and four scores while turning into the principal NFL quarterback with in any event 450 yards going in three straight games.
Prescott set that record in light of the fact that the Cowboys (1-3) have played from path behind three straight weeks, to some degree in view of turnovers by him. He five the previous two games.
Furthermore, presently Dallas has lost the first of three straight home games in what could end up being a basic stretch if mentor Mike McCarthy needs to get Dallas to the end of the season games in his first season. Cleveland’s Kevin Stefanski is in his first season too.
“We keep hurting ourselves on offense, putting our defense in bad spot,” said Prescott, whose capture on his vocation high 58th and last endeavor finished any rebound trusts in the last two minutes. “And not starting fast enough, that’s what’s been killing us over the past few games.”
The Browns ran for 307 yards and three scores regardless of losing lead back Nick Chubb to a knee injury in the primary quarter. Stefanski said Chubb would have a MRI test.
Chase, who has been fighting a crotch injury, had 71 yards and two scores, and D’Ernest Johnson multiplied his vocation yardage of 26 yards in the principal half alone, proceeding to get done with a group high 95 yards.
Beckham’s first TD of the game was additionally Jarvis Landry’s first score go in quite a while 100th profession game, a 37-yard score on a stunt play. It was the longest TD throw by a recipient since Beckham’s 49-yarder with the Giants in 2018.
“That was something that I have had on the tip of my tongue a few other games, and I just did not get it called,” Stefanski said. “I told the guys we were not going to go through another game without that one getting called.”
Garrett commended his homecoming right on time with the first of his two sacks on the second play from scrimmage. The subsequent sack reversed the situation.
In a 14-14 connection the subsequent quarter, Garrett constrained the first of two turnovers on successive plays by Dallas, both changed over into scores as Cleveland broke the bind with 27 back to back focuses.
Garrett effortlessly beat undrafted youngster Terence Steele and hit Prescott as he was attempting to toss, prompting a 1-yard scoring go to Austin Hooper from Mayfield, who was 19 of 30 for 165 yards. After Ezekiel Elliott bumbled toward the finish of a 24-yard run close to midfield, the Browns headed to Hunt’s 2-yard TD run.
“I am no stranger to this field so playing on this field and making big plays is not new to me,” Garrett said. “I am just glad that I was able to do it again.”
Amari Cooper had 12 gets for 134 yards and a TD for Dallas, and youngster CeeDee Lamb scored his initial two scores.
Scratched UP CHUBB
Chubb, who came in as the NFL’s fourth-driving rusher, was harmed in the main quarter when his correct leg was moved up on by a couple of contradicting linemen drew in with one another. He limped to the storage space, and the group said it was a knee injury.
NO D IN BIG D
Cleveland’s 307 yards hurrying were the most the Cowboys have ever permitted. Dallas is the main group since Oakland in 2012 to permit at any rate 38 focuses in three straight games in a similar season. The main other time the Cowboys did it was their debut season in 1960, when they went 0-11-1.
INJURIES
Browns: WR KhaDarel Hodge hurt his hamstring in pregame warmups. … DT Larry Ogunjobi left with a stomach injury and didn’t return.
Cowboys: C Joe Looney harmed his correct knee on the main hostile play of the game and didn’t return. He was supplanted by freshman Tyler Biadasz.
UP NEXT
Browns: Indianapolis at home next Sunday.
Cowboys: New York Giants in second of three straight home games next Sunday.