CLEVELAND — To commemorate the 75th anniversary of their franchise’s founding, the Browns turned their scoreboards retro Sunday, using graphics that looked like the old yellow bulbs on a black screen. The Bears went along with the theme and posted an offensive display that would have been at home in 1946 — 47 yards on 42 plays — in a 26-6 loss.
At the center of the offense was quarterback Justin Fields, the rookie making his first start. At no point in his life, at any level, had his offense been so thoroughly dismantled.
Afterward, he searched for the words to describe how it felt and settled on this: a dark place.