Beckham, Garrett lead Browns’ win over Jets

Odell Beckham Jr had a career-long, 89-yard touchdown reception, and Myles Garrett recorded three sacks as the Cleveland Browns posted a 23-3 victory over the New York Jets on Monday night at East Rutherford, New Jersey.Baker Mayfield completed 19 of 35 passes for 325 yards with one interception and the touchdown to Beckham, who had six catches for 161 yards. Beckham’s big showing came at MetLife Stadium, the venue he called home for five seasons with the New York Giants before being traded to the Browns during the offseason. Nick Chubb added a rushing touchdown, and Austin Seibert kicked three field goals for Cleveland (1-1), which impressively rebounded from a season-opening 43-13 loss to the Tennessee Titans.New York (0-2) totalled 262 offensive yards without starting quarterback Sam Darnold (mononucleosis) and also lost fill-in Trevor Siemian to an injured left ankle with 7:47 left in the second quarter. Siemian completed 3 of 6 passes for 3 yards before exiting.Luke Falk finished the game and went 20 of 25 for 198 yards. Le’Veon Bell rushed for 68 yards on 21 carries and caught 10 passes for 61 more as New York absorbed its seventh straight home setback. The Browns, who had 375 offensive yards, scored the game’s first 13 points while quickly taking control.Seibert kicked field goals of 23 and 48 yards in the first quarter, and Chubb scored on a 19-yard run through the left side to make it 13-0 with 10:16 left in the half.Siemian was injured about 2 1/2 minutes later when he was hit by Garrett after throwing a deep incompletion. Siemian’s toes pressed into the turf and his left leg twisted as he felt the brunt of the weight of his lower body plus Garrett’s body weight falling on him.Falk entered and drove the Jets to Sam Ficken’s 46-yard field goal with 2:56 left in the half.Seibert booted a 43-yard field out as time expired to give Cleveland a 16-3 halftime lead.The big play by Beckham all but assured the Browns’ victory. Cleveland was at its own 11-yard line when Mayfield hit a wide-open Beckham with a short throw at the 22. Beckham headed upfield and outran four New York secondary players with 3:32 left in the third quarter.Beckham also made an acrobatic one-handed, 33-yard reception in the opening quarter to set up Seibert’s first field goal.Beckham sports $2mn watch, gets benched by NFL for visorThe ongoing cat-and-mouse game between the NFL and Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. reached new heights on Monday night ... in terms of money and playing time. A week after playing a game while wearing a wristwatch reportedly valued at $350,000, Beckham wore no such watch during Monday night’s game against the Jets in East Rutherford, New Jersey.Instead, before the game, Beckham stepped onto the MetLife Stadium turf for warmups wearing something that put his Week 1 watch to shame. ESPN cameras caught him sporting a metallic and clear watch, which looked just like the Richard Mille RM 56-02 Tourbillon Sapphire. There are only 10 in existence ... and they are valued at more than $2mn each.Unrelated to jewellery, the NFL still found fault with Beckham on Monday, sending him to the sideline after an amazing first-quarter catch set up a first-and-goal. Officials reportedly told Browns coach Freddie Kitchens that Beckham’s gold-tinted visor was in violation of the league’s rule that permits players to wear only clear visors. Kitchens was told to remove Beckham from the game so the visor could be changed out.By the time the new visor was in place, however, Beckham missed a third-and-goal play, and the Browns settled for a field goal. Beckham ultimately got the last laugh, though, as his visor allowed him to see a pass from Baker Mayfield and take it 89 yards for the final touchdown in the Browns’ 23-3 win. It was the longest reception in Beckham’s six-year career.“All I want is it to be fair around the league. If you’re going to tell me to do something, do it for everybody else,” Beckham said during a postgame interview on ESPN. “You let people stay in the game on ‘Monday Night Football’ with gold visors, everybody else has tinted visors, and you pull me off and it hurts my team, and I hurt my team on third-and-goal.“You can warn me, do something, but don’t pull me off on third-and-goal. All I want is it to be fair. I just want to play football.”During the Browns’ season-opening loss to the Tennessee Titans on Sept 8, Beckham wore a Richard Mille RM 11-03 McLaren Flyback Chronograph watch. A day later, the NFL reportedly called the Browns and informed them Beckham could no longer wear the watch during games as it violated the league’s rule “prohibiting hard objects.”