Browns offense is unwatchable

There is plenty of blame to go around in Cleveland, but it starts and ends with the play of quarterback Deshaun Watson.

Longtime fans of the Cleveland Browns have seen their share of bad offenses over the years.

But none may have been as bad or as unwatchable as we are all witnessing this season.

Consider that:

• The Browns have not hit 20 points for six consecutive games, and are the first team to achieve that since the 2014 Jacksonville Jaguars.
• The Browns have yet to hit 300 total yards of offense this season.
• The offense is ranked at No. 31 in EPA per play.
• The offense is ranked at No. 31 in points per drive.
• The offense is ranked at No. 32 in yards per possession.
• The offense has only made nine trips in the red zone this season, which ranks the offense at No. 784 out of 798 possible teams in red zone trips since 2000, according to ESPN.
• The offense has converted a league-worst 19.2 percent of their third downs. Only one team since 2000, the Chicago Bears in 2010, was worst through a season’s first six games, according to ESPN.
• The Browns have scored 95 points, counting defensive scores, an average of 15.8 points per game.

To put that last bullet point into perspective, the expansion team in 1999 averaged 13.6 points per game, the 2016 team that finished 1-15 averaged 16.5 points per game, and the 2017 team that hit the historic mark of 0-16 averaged 14.6 points per game.

This year’s team is neither an expansion team, a team led by the worst head coach in NFL history, or a team starting a rookie quarterback. But they are trending to be mentioned alongside those squads.

Related: Browns sticking with Deshaun Watson is stubborn, forced, stupid or sunk-cost fallacy

Speaking of quarterbacks, that expansion team started No. 1 overall pick Tim Couch for 14 games. Couch finished the season by completing 55.9 percent of his passes, averaging 163 passing yards per game, throwing 15 touchdowns against 13 interceptions, and was sacked 56 times for an average of 12.3 percent of his dropbacks.

In that magical 2017 season, rookie DeShone Kizer made 15 starts. He finished the year by completing 53.6 percent of his passes, averaging 192.9 yards per game, throwing 11 touchdowns against 22 interceptions, and was sacked 38 times for an average of 7.39 percent of his dropbacks.

Somehow, those numbers are starting to look positively exciting compared to what the Browns are currently getting from starting quarterback Deshaun Watson.

While his completion percentage (61.3) and interceptions (only 3) are better, Watson does not come out favorably as he is averaging 170 yards per game and is on pace to be sacked 88 times (if he makes it through all 17 games) as he is being taken down on 13.5 percent of his drop backs.

But wait, there’s more!

• Watson’s EPA (expected points added) per...