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Monday 11 noveMber 2019

Season saver: Mayfield, Browns stop slide, beat Bills 19-16

By TOM WITHERS tremely well today," Al-
AP Sports Writer len said. "They gave us a
CLEVELAND (AP) — When chance. Everybody knows
Buffalo's game-tying field- that you have to score
goal try with 22 seconds left more than 16 to win."
failed to clear the uprights, SAFETY FIRST
the Browns spilled onto the The Bills' defense tied it 9-9
field and celebrated al- early in the third as line-
most from goal line to goal backer Tremaine Edmunds
line. sacked Mayfield in the end
They jumped. They hugged. zone. The Browns were in
They exhaled. an empty backfield and
Their season has new life. didn't account for block-
Baker Mayfield threw a ing Edmunds, who came in
7-yard touchdown pass to untouched off the left side
Rashard Higgins with 1:44 and quickly wrapped up
left as Cleveland snapped Mayfield.
a four-game losing streak RARE AIR
— and took some pressure Chubb's 919 yards rushing
off first-year coach Freddie through nine games are the
Kitchens — with a 19-16 win most by a Cleveland player
on Sunday over the Bills, not named Jim Brown. The
who couldn't come up with Hall of Famer and NFL leg-
one last goal-line stand. end owns the top five spots
"We needed to have that," Buffalo Bills kicker Stephen Hauschka (4) misses a 53-yard field goal late during the second half of on the list, including a fran-
Mayfield said. an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, in Cleveland. chise-record 1,293 yards in
With Kitchens under fire and Associated Press 1963.
their playoff hopes fading Chubb has four 100-yard
fast, the Browns (3-6) rallied had two touchdown runs a row. was going to shed a tear. rushing games this season,
for their first win at home for the Bills (6-3), who were However, Cleveland strug- It's really good to be back giving him nine in two years.
and kept their season from off to their best start since gled again to complete home with the Browns. Any CALLAWAY BENCHED
completely collapsing. 1993. drives as the Bills stopped time I get an opportunity to The Browns sat No. 3 wide
Not easy. Not pretty. Wel- For most of the game Allen them on 12 plays inside the make a play, I'm going to receiver Antonio Callaway,
comed. outplayed Mayfield, who 3-yard line, holding Cleve- do it." who had played in all four
"This is a good start for us," finally delivered a clutch land to three points. Nick Chubb rushed for 116 games since returning from
said star receiver Odell drive after the Bills QB put "We had the big goal-line yards on 20 carries for the a four-game drug suspen-
Beckham Jr., who had five his team ahead 16-12 with stand, but at the end of Browns, and Jarvis Landry sion to start the season.
catches for 57 yards. "We a 1-yard sneak. the day when the game is had nine catches for 97 Callaway had a big drop
got a tough win against a On second-and-goal, May- in your hands and you fig- yards and made a crucial, in his first game back and
very good team." field threaded his TD pass ure the defense is the bell over-the-shoulder catch on hasn't been as consistent
Cleveland survived more to an open Higgins, who cow of your team, we had Cleveland's game-winning as the Browns had hoped.
problems in the red zone — had been suspiciously miss- to come up with a play to drive. Callaway's absence
the Browns scored just three ing from Cleveland's game stop them," Bills linebacker "Honestly, I've been work- cleared the way for Hig-
points despite 12 plays in- plan this season after being Lorenzo Alexander said. ing on stuff like that a lot," gins, who made his one
side Buffalo's 3-yard line — one of Mayfield's favorite Browns running back Ka- he said. "I just looked over catch count.
but sealed the much-need- targets last season. It was reem Hunt made his debut my shoulder and the ball Kitchens wouldn't elabo-
ed victory when Buffalo's Higgins' only catch. for Cleveland and picked was there." rate on Callaway's bench-
Stephen Hauschka's was "I had a dream I scored — up 74 combined yards. The BUFFALO STANCE ing.
off the mark on a 53-yard and it happened," said Hig- 24-year-old was eligible The Bills stopped the Browns "It's between Antonio and
field goal. Earlier, Hauschka gins. after completing an eight- on eight straight plays at I," he said.
missed a 34-yarder. "Not like that, the game- game NFL suspension for the 1 — the equivalent Callaway warmed up on
"I hit it OK, but not the way winner. In my dream, I woke two violent acts, includ- of two goal-line stands — the field, but watched from
you need to hit it from that pretty quickly. I don't know ing shoving and kicking a in the first quarter. They a suite.
distance," Hauschka said. "I how it ended." woman while he played for stuffed Chubb on five car- "He was going to be part of
didn't really get all of it go- Mayfield had his second Kansas City. ries, and Buffalo overcame the game plan," Mayfield
ing in that direction. With a straight solid game, com- "There are not enough a pair of pass interference said. "But things happen."
little bit of right to left wind pleting 26 of 38 passes for words to tell how I felt be- calls in the end zone while UP NEXT
it's going to take it if you 238 yards and two TDs. He ing back out there," Hunt keeping the Browns off the Bills: At Miami on Sunday.
don't get it all." didn't throw an intercep- said. "I was thankful, sad. scoreboard. Browns: Host the Pittsburgh
Quarterback Josh Allen tion for the second week in A couple times, I thought I "Our defense played ex- Steelers on Thursday.q