Daily Dawg Chow: Browns news (12/28/18)

Cleveland Browns:

• “Baker Mayfield named Joe Thomas Award winner” (247 Sports) - “Baker Mayfield has been named the ‘Joe Thomas Award’ winner, which is doled out to the team’s best player as voted by the local Pro Football Writer’s Association media members.”
• “Browns Still Running on Analytics” (WFNY) - “Analytics. Perhaps the biggest buzzword in modern sports. Depending on your audience, its meaning can take the form of whatever that conversant intends—a sort of chameleonized, fit-for-purpose term.”
• “Another win for Gregg Williams adds to coaching dilemma for John Dorsey” (ABJ) - “You think Santa’s sleigh gets crowded? Have you seen the Baker Mayfield bandwagon? Maybe that’s an unfair question. Browns fans are no front-runners.”
• “Browns reveling in their chances to celebrate the hard work that leads to success” (Browns.com) - “When Chris Smith helped Genard Avery tackle Joe Mixon in the backfield during the first quarter, he rubbed his belly in celebration.”
• “Baker Mayfield has a gift for winning” (Crowquill) - “While the Browns and their fans will have to wait until next year to take a shot at the playoffs, one thing they won’t have to wait for is a franchise QB.”
• “Could Freddie Kitchens be the next Browns head coach?” (Browns Wire) - “The current offensive coordinator has taken the league by storm since taking over for deposed predecessor Todd Haley.”
• “Top to bottom, 1st-round QBs impacted NFL along with others” (AP) - “From Baker Mayfield at the top of the first round to Lamar Jackson at the bottom, rookie quarterbacks had an impact, one way or another, in their NFL debuts.”