The Cleveland Browns 2023 season is over.

The first game of the playoffs looked like it might be a shootout but it ended up as a blowout. The Houston Texans dominated the Cleveland Browns 45-14 to advance to the divisional round of the 2023 NFL playoffs.

 

The game was completely out of hand late into the third quarter.

It got so bad that one player on the Browns seemingly began his vacation early. Social media thinks a player was caught with some pot on the sidelines.

That player was Browns cornerback Martin Emerson.

 

In reality, he was holding Ziplock bags filled with sunflower seeds.

C.J. Stroud threw for 274 yards and three touchdowns as the Houston Texans defeated the Cleveland Browns 45-14 on Saturday. He picked apart Cleveland’s vaunted defense, throwing touchdown passes of 15, 76 and 37 yards.

Back in the playoffs for the first time since 2019, Stroud’s stellar play and the leadership of first-year coach DeMeco Ryans transformed the Texans from one of the worst teams last year to a Cinderella team this year.