It is becoming a weekly pattern with the Cleveland Browns and the NFL.
The Browns play on Sunday, the officials miss a blatant call that would favor the Browns, and word eventually leaks out during the week that the league office knows the call was wrong.
Yet nothing ever changes.
Such is the case again this week as unnamed source “familiar with the league’s thinking” said that the NFL realizes Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Jordan Whitehead’s helmet-to-helmet hit on quarterback Baker Mayfield should have been a penalty, according to ESPN’s Pat McManamon.