CLEVELAND — Hosting TownHall's annual Feed the Need event alongside his wife Emily, Baker Mayfield was focused on helping serve more than 4,000 warm meals to the needy on Tuesday.
But as one might expect, football wasn't far from the Cleveland Browns quarterback's mind.
So when Emily, who also happens to be a special correspondent for 3News' Lunch Break, asked her husband about the secret behind the Browns' recent turnaround, Mayfield hardly flinched.
"It's just a smooth transition for us," the second-year signal-caller said. "We made a lot of errors, some self-inflicted wounds in the beginning. We're starting to fix those and now we're seeing the progress.
That progress has manifested itself in the form of a three-game winning streak heading into this weekend's matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Laying claim to a 5-6 record, Cleveland now finds itself just one game back in a still-muddled AFC Wild Card race.
Mayfield's assessment on the matter, meanwhile, hardly qualifies as a revelation, as turnovers and penalties plagued the Browns throughout their 2-6 start. It's hardly a coincidence that after throwing a league-high 12 interceptions through Cleveland's first seven games, Mayfield has now been picked off just once over the course of the past four weeks.
Of course, it hasn't hurt matters that the Browns' competition has decreased in difficulty and the former No. 1 pick was willing to admit as much. However, he was also quick to point out that the seeds for his team's turnaround were planted before it even began.
"Obviously the schedule helps," Mayfield said. "We were making progress before that."
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