{"id":252537,"date":"2025-10-30T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=252537"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:50:00","slug":"offensive-offense-the-browns-offense-is-an-insult-to-trainwrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/10\/30\/offensive-offense-the-browns-offense-is-an-insult-to-trainwrecks\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive Offense: The Browns\u2019 Offense Is an Insult to Trainwrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon further review, Dillon Gabriel\u2019s performance has gone from disappointing to downright surreal. His fourth start wasn\u2019t just bad \u2014 it was the kind of disaster that makes you question whether anyone on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/browns\/\" target=\"_self\">Cleveland Browns\u2019<\/a> offensive staff even owns a playbook.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Offensive Offense: The Browns\u2019 Offense Is an Insult to Trainwrecks<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late in the fourth quarter against New England, with the Browns deep in garbage time and facing little to no Patriots pass rush, Browns Quarterback Dillon Gabriel inexplicably threw the ball out of bounds from inside his own end zone \u2014 resulting in a safety. Yes, you read that right: the rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel literally threw for a safety. It may be one of the rarest plays in NFL history \u2014 a quarterback who <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">throws<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a safety. It was the perfect punctuation mark on a performance that summed up everything wrong with this offense and this coaching staff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Numbers Don\u2019t Lie<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dillon Gabriel\u2019s 2025 Regular Season (CLE):<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Source:<\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4427238\/dillon-gabriel\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ESPN Player Page<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yards: 702 (34th in NFL)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Touchdowns: 5 (T-30th)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interceptions: 2 (T-36th)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QBR: 25.8 (32nd \u2014 dead last among qualified starters)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Completion %: 59.9<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yards per Attempt: 4.9<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to John Kosko of Pro Football Focus, Gabriel\u2019s weekly grades have been in free fall:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week 5: 63.5<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week 6: 52.5<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week 7: 48.6<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week 8: 38.4<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over that stretch, Gabriel ranked dead last among all NFL quarterbacks with at least 100 passing attempts \u2014 the lowest-graded passer overall, worst in uncatchable-throw rate, big-time throws (BTTs), and positive-grade rate. In plain English: he\u2019s been the least accurate, least dynamic, and least productive starter in the league.\u00a0 \u00a0Since the Cleveland Browns returned to the league in 1999 Quarterback Dillon Gabriel represents the 41st Quarterback to start a game.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against New England, Gabriel completed just two passes to wide receivers \u2014 both to Jamari Thrash. Jerry Jeudy (0-for-5) and Isaiah Bond (0-for-4) were shut out. Most of Gabriel\u2019s deep throws this season are not even close, and too many are high over the middle \u2014 the kind of \u201cwidow-maker\u201d balls that get receivers lit up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you grade Gabriel on short, check-down passes, he\u2019s serviceable. But if you evaluate him as an NFL quarterback \u2014 one expected to throw accurately beyond 20 yards \u2014 he\u2019s an abject failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the Browns\u2019 defense remains top-five in nearly every major category except points allowed \u2014 and that\u2019s only because the offense keeps putting them in impossible positions with turnovers, stalled drives, and endless three-and-outs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Titanic in Cleveland<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the game, when asked if he was considering a quarterback change, Kevin Stefanski doubled down, saying he was \u201csticking with Dillon Gabriel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So maybe I was wrong \u2014 this isn\u2019t just a trainwreck. The Browns\u2019 offense and their head coach are the Titanic. And Stefanski appears ready to go down with the ship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a possible lifeboat sitting right there on the sideline \u2014 Shedeur Sanders. What exactly do Stefanski and Andrew Berry have to lose? Gabriel is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not it.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Maybe Sanders isn\u2019t either, but we won\u2019t know until he plays. What we <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> know is that Cleveland doesn\u2019t need to see another snap of Dillon Gabriel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stefanski is now 5\u201320 in his last 25 games, and this regime has officially run out of excuses. They traded away Joe Flacco, the only quarterback who could run this offense, to a division rival for a fifth-round pick. They hyped Kenny Pickett as an answer, then traded him before the season. Now they\u2019re protecting a third-round project while the real hope \u2014 Shedeur Sanders \u2014 rides the bench.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Sanders fails, Stefanski and Berry can say <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cwe told you so.\u201d<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If he succeeds, maybe they save their jobs \u2014 and the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until then, Browns fans are left with an offense so bad it\u2019s offensive \u2014 and a coach captaining a sinking ship straight into the iceberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Image: Bob DeChiara &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon further review, Dillon Gabriel\u2019s performance has gone from disappointing to downright surreal. His fourth start wasn\u2019t just bad \u2014 it was the kind of disaster that makes you question whether anyone on the Cleveland Browns\u2019 offensive staff even owns a playbook. 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