The Browns had five red zone possessions. Two other possessions ended at the Denver 21 and Denver 28.They scored 19 points.That wasn’t enough.The Broncos John Elway Jersey White , behind a quarterback making his first career start, beat the Browns 24-19.It was Denver’s third victory in its past five games, giving the Broncos a 3-6 record. The Browns lost their fourth consecutive game to fall to 2-6 on yet another disappointing day.The Browns settled for field goals on four consecutive drives in the first half, on possessions ending at the Denver 21, 12, 9 and 12. With 5:23 remaining in the third quarter, the Browns decided to go for it on fourth-and-one from the Denver 5-yard line.Baker Mayfield was ruled short of the line to gain on fourth-and-one on a questionable spot. Al Riveron, the NFL’s supervisor of officials Womens Royce Freeman Jersey , upheld the decision of officials on the field.The Browns’ last chance came with 3:23 remaining in the game.Cleveland faced a fourth-and-four from the Denver 28. Mayfield tried to force the ball into Jarvis Landry double covered over the middle, and it fell incomplete. He never saw Odell Beckham, who had a step on Chris Harris Jr. down the sideline.Beckham, who made two highlight reel catches on his five catches for 87 yards, was not happy.But Allen won the day.Joe Flacco won only two games for the Broncos. Allen completed 12 of 20 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns, giving him a 125.6 passer rating. He did not blink all day.He got help from Phillip Lindsay, who had nine carries for 92 yards and a touchdown, and tight end Noah Fant Courtland Sutton Jersey , who had three catches for 115 yards and a touchdown.Mayfield went 27-of-42 for 273 yards and a touchdown to Landry, who had six catches for 51 yards. The Broncos had kicker Taylor Bertolet on their roster for part of the 2018 offseason, but he was cut in early May so he never really competed with Brandon McManus for the kicking job in Denver.That could be different this summer. Bertolet signed with the Broncos in late April after making 8-of-14 field goal attempts for the Salt Lake entry in the Alliance of American Football and is set to go to camp with the team next month.McManus has been the kicker in Denver for the last five years and is coming off a year that saw him make every field goal inside of 50 yards while missing 5-of-7 from longer range. He said he’s comfortable competing with someone in camp and feels comfortable competing with those outside the team as well.“I’ve had another kicker in camp with me every other year,” McManus said, via the . “It’s nothing that I’m not used to and it’s always good to have someone competing against you. And it’s not just [Bertolet]. There are 31 other jobs out there and a bunch of others kicking as well.”Head coach Vic Fangio said that Bertolet will have to “knock him out like in a heavyweight battle” to win the job this summer, which may be a Buster Douglas-level upset given McManus’s successful run in Denver thus far.
