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The Bengals have only one win, but they haven’t quit. They are giving the Browns all they want and more Sunday in a game with no playoff implications. Cincinnati leads 20-16 at halftime. Joe Mixon has 15 carries for 103 yards and a touchdown, which is 33 yards more than Andy Dalton has...

Getty Images Joe Mixon has made a season out of playing the Browns. The Bengals running back rushed for a career-best 146 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries in Week 14 against Cleveland. He did even better Sunday, rushing for 162 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries. Mixon, who had...

Getty Images The Browns headed into Sunday’s games surrounded by questions about whether head coach Freddie Kitchens will be fired after one season and the final week of the year didn’t make a strong argument in Kitchens’s favor. Cleveland became the second team to lose a game to the Bengals...

Getty Images Often, players who play for embattled coaches go to bat for them. On Sunday, Browns receiver Jarvis Landry remained in the dugout regarding the status of Freddie Kitchens. “It’s not my call,” he told reporters after the season-ending loss at Cincinnati, via Jake Trotter of...

Getty Images For teams like the Giants, players like Daniel Jones are saying all the expected things about an embattled head coach. For teams like the Browns, where the unexpected is expected, the unexpected (and thus the expected) is happening. Tight end David Njoku, a first-round pick in...

Getty Images Like Black Friday, Black Monday now starts a day early. So when Sunday rolls around, who will be out? Here’s a look at the candidates to be coaching elsewhere after the 2019 season ends for their respective teams. Pat Shurmur, Giants: It’s being regarded as a given that Shurmur...

Getty Images The NFL has unveiled the 10 quarterbacks named to the league’s all-time team. And two of the all-time greats have been left out. Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees didn’t earn a spot on the roster. The 10 quarterbacks are, in alphabetical order, Sammy Baugh, Tom Brady, John Elway...

Getty Images The Bengals promoted tight end Jordan Franks and receiver Trenton Irwin from the practice squad, the team announced Friday. They placed cornerback William Jackson III on injured reserve. Cincinnati had an open roster spot, because linebacker Sharif Finch failed his physical...

Getty Images Kareem Hunt is scheduled to become a restricted free agent in March. The running back hopes to remain in Cleveland, his hometown. “Ain’t no place like home, and this is home for me, so I’d love to be in my hometown playing for a long time, maybe finish my career,’’ Hunt said...

Getty Images All 32 teams will be playing their final regular season game on Sunday. They have handed in their final injury reports of the week and all injury designations for those games are below. Dolphins at Patriots The Dolphins ruled out CB Jomal Wiltz (shoulder). LB Vince Biegel...

Getty Images The Browns are 6-9, seven games behind the Ravens in the AFC North. They rank 18th in total offense, including 23rd in passing offense, and 22nd in scoring. Yet, head coach Freddie Kitchens will call plays this week against the Bengals with offensive coordinator Todd Monken...

Getty Images Jarvis Landry‘s season-long hip injury that might require offseason surgery resulted from a fracture in his lower back. The Browns receiver said Thursday the fracture was discovered in the spring. “Just talking to the doctors and the early scans from OTAs and things like that, I...

Getty Images Year 2 for Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield didn’t live up to the promise of his rookie season, and he knows it’s going to take hard offseason work to get back on track in Year 3. “I already know what exactly I need to work on and improve going forward,” Mayfield said, via the...

Getty Images Wide receiver Odell Beckham‘s rocky first season with the Browns will come to an end on Sunday and Beckham’s status for the contest is clouded by the fact that he’s out of practice on Friday. Beckham is out with an illness and is considered questionable to play this weekend. He’d...

Getty Images The Bengals want to reward their suffering fans this week. Whether their fans care or not is another question. They’ve already clinched the top pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, so there is literally nothing for them to play for Sunday other than to mess with the Browns (as if they need...

Getty Images Steve Wilks was wrapping up an unsuccessful first season as the head coach of the Cardinals and he never got a chance to do better because the Cardinals fired him once the year came to an end. Wilks landed a job as the defensive coordinator on Freddie Kitchens’s staff in Cleveland...

Getty Images The Browns placed running back Dontrell Hilliard on injured reserve Tuesday. They promoted offensive guard Colby Gossett from the practice squad. Hilliard left the Week 16 game against the Ravens in the second quarter with a knee injury and did not return. He played 14 games...

Getty Images The Browns beat the Ravens 40-25 in Week Four. Since then, the teams have gone in opposite directions. Baltimore has not lost since and everything that could go wrong for Cleveland has. After being stymied for the first 28 minutes, the Ravens rolled to a 31-15 victory over the...

Getty Images After Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham was unsuccessfully targeted on a two-point conversion pass in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s 31-15 loss to the Ravens, he was spotted in a heated exchange with Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens. Beckham had thrown his helmet down before...

Getty Images With 1:30 left in the first half on Sunday, the Browns led the Ravens 6-0. By halftime, The Ravens led 14-6. Browns coach Freddie Kitchens admitted after the game that he could have done things better. After the Ravens’ first touchdown made the score 7-6, the Browns got the ball...