CLEVELAND, Ohio - When cleveland.com columnist Terry Pluto looks back at last season’s Browns offense, his assessment is blunt: The team abandoned what worked and embraced what didn’t.

The result was an identity crisis that crippled a unit that had previously been among the league’s most effective.

“I’m still stunned,” Pluto said on this week’s Terry’s Talkin’ podcast .

“I was looking at the stats again. How could the Browns have led all the NFL in passes attempted?” Pluto said. “And I think the stat that I found in there that is revealing is of the 10 teams that threw the ball the most, only one made the play playoffs last year, Kansas City, and they ranked ninth.”

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