Daily Dawg Chow: Browns news (12/12/18)

Cleveland Browns:

• “Browns in the playoffs? Here’s how it could happen” (ESPN) - “Their chances? Not good. ESPN Analytics updated their numbers following all of Sunday’s games and put the Browns’ playoff chances at 0.2 percent.”
• “Armed, dangerous: Browns’ Mayfield flexing rocket arm” (AP) - “As Baker Mayfield threw long passes to his wide receivers and short ones to backs before Sunday’s game against Carolina, Browns interim coach Gregg Williams knew...”
• “Browns vow to make elevation an afterthought at Mile High” (Browns.com) - “Rashard Higgins knows all about the elevation in Denver. The third-year Browns receiver, who played for Colorado State in college, said he could always tell the elevation affected road teams.”
• “Ranking the Cleveland Browns cornerstone players” (WFNY) - “The Cleveland Browns won their fifth game of the season on Sunday, beating the Carolina Panthers, 26-20. The Browns key players showed up and showed out in the victory...”

NFL:

• “Injuries: Tomlin doesn’t rule out James Conner vs. Pats” (NFL.com) - “Tomlin did not rule out Conner to play this week against the New England Patriots, noting practice will tell the tale whether the starting running back can return...”
• “Vikings Fire Offensive Coordinator John DeFilippo” (SI.com) - “The Vikings have fired offensive coordinator John DeFilippo following Monday night’s 21–7 loss to the Seahawks, the team announced.”
• “Salary cap will be around $190 million in 2019” (PFT) - “The league announced today that the salary cap will rise to somewhere in the neighborhood of $190 million in 2019. The 2018 cap is set at $177.2 million.”
• “Brett Favre offers a crazy suggestion of who should be the Packers’ next head coach” (CBS) - “If the Green Bay Packers can keep winning by two scores under interim coach Joe Philbin, maybe they won’t need to find an outside replacement for Mike McCarthy at all.”