The Cleveland Browns look good by beating the Atlanta Falcons: reaction to the game

CLEVELAND, Ohio – This is not the first Browns win this season.

It's the best the team has watched.

"Full Game" was a common phrase uttered after the Browns defeated the Atlanta Falcons 28-16 on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium.

The ingredients for "complete the game": rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield threw for 216 yards and three touchdowns. Running back Nick Chubb totals 176 yards in 20 runs, including a 92-yard touchdown record.

The defense keeps the Falcons at 16 points, which includes a big goal line in the fourth quarter to maintain a 28-10 lead.

The Browns entered the game with a four-game losing streak, a series that included the dismissal of coaches and questions about the efforts of some players. Dan Labbe from cleveland.com:

• The Browns, as they did Sunday, are basically forced to play spoiler until the end. They will have their chances too. They have two games against the Bengals, the Panthers go to Cleveland in December and end their season in Baltimore. The Falcons were heading to FirstEnergy Stadium and their momentum was stopping. … The Browns could have stopped a few weeks ago. It is clear that they did not do it. The future looks a little brighter because of that.

The Browns have three wins, the most since 2015. (No bragging … this team went 3-13.)

Baker Mayfield, Denzel Ward and Nick Chubb have won six Rookie of the Week awards in the NFL.

Hayden Grove, from cleveland.com, wonders if this is the best Browns rookie category since the team's return in 1999. It seems like there's a solid case, but Grove use caution:

• Yes, they are absolutely ready to replace their counterparts at their respective positions, but there are still six games to play in this rookie season and anything can happen to each of those players. The point in favor of these three, however, is that they are all of the same class. … The answer to the question … is definitely incomplete, but it seems that before the end of the year, the answer is yes. And, if so, John Dorsey will undoubtedly have the best draft of the NFL among all Browns GM extensions.

For Chubb, it was a game to savor and he impressed his teammates:

"I do not know what he ate at breakfast, but he was ridiculous," Browns defense Chris Smith said.

Mayfield was a hit in the post-game.

"I just woke up feeling really dangerous," he told reporters after the match.

Mayfield was a danger to the Falcons … He was 12-in-12 in the first period with two touchdowns. Not bad. (He got an A-Plus from Dennis Manoloff from The Plain Dealer.)

The Browns & Smith was also full of superlatives for Mayfield:

"Baker was on fire today," Smith said. "As I tell him, he's no longer a rookie, he has to lead this team, and that's why he's doing a good job." that's how we go, and he was on fire today. "