The Cleveland Browns‘ 2025 season has brought what feels like several new low points for the Kevin Stefanski-Andrew Berry era, but losing to a 1-7 New York Jets team that just this week traded away its’ two best players feels like the lowest point of all.
Jets quarterback Justin Fields attempted just 11 passes. He completed only six of those, for a total of 54 yards, 42 of which came on a screen-pass-turned-touchdown from running back Breece Hall. Because Fields was sacked three times for twelve yards, the Jets gained a net of zero passing yards outside of that one play. The Browns lost the game.
The Browns are now 2-7 on the season. Their rookie starting quarterback continues to struggle mightily, along with the rest of the offense. The vibes are bad in Cleveland.
Let’s take a look at how Browns fans are reacting to Sunday’s brutal loss.
The QB
The unsettled situation at quarterback has been a central storyline for the Browns for the better part of the last year, and ten weeks into the season, there are still just as many questions as there were immediately after April’s draft. Dillon Gabriel has struggled, and Shedeur Sanders’ time to shine is likely approaching quickly. Plenty of Browns fans, though, already have their eyes on the signal-callers who are eligible for the upcoming draft. An ESPN poll of NFL scouts and executives released on Saturday revealed that Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza is widely viewed as the top quarterback prospect in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Dillon Gabriel deserves better as a human being than this ritual humiliation. What is Stefanski trying to prove? He’s eroding even this kid’s backup potential by forcing this. #DawgPound
— Jenn (@softpoetrysound) November 9, 2025
The fact we used a top 100 pick on DG makes it even more infuriating #DawgPound
— CLE Personal (@CLEPersonal) November 9, 2025
I’m dead inside man but man I’m going to be watching a lot of mendoza the rest of the year 👀 #DawgPound
— The Benchwarmer (@thebenchwarma) November 9, 2025
My goodness, Dillon Gabriel is not good, like not very good at all, I would love Mendoza on this team #DawgPoundpic.twitter.com/HBac0cVtDQ
— Hollywood Meech #Justice4Jayland (@meetDTrav) November 9, 2025
Defenders anytime Dillon Gabriel throws them an easy interception pic.twitter.com/WwCtZL1uNC
— Cam (@camfromthe216) November 9, 2025
Dillon Gabriel going Emmanuel Clase pic.twitter.com/l0TepK6oJY
— McNeil (@REFLOG18) November 9, 2025
The most concerning thing is that this Browns regime genuinely really liked Dillon Gabriel.
They truly believed in him.
Nobody should believe in them to find their QB of the future. Incapable.
— Nick Pedone (@NickPedone12) November 9, 2025
Dillon Gabriel is just so bad.
— The Dawgs – A Cleveland Browns Podcast (@thedawgspodcast) November 9, 2025
Seems like a nice kid but this Gabriel thing is on the list of most deflating things I’ve seen the Browns do at QB.
— David Zavac (@DavidZavac) November 9, 2025
The coaching
Browns fans have quickly soured on Kevin Stefanski since the beginning of the 2025 season, and the noise is at an all-time high after Sunday’s loss to the Jets. Cleveland’s offense averaged just 3.2 yards per pass play and displayed some incredibly undisciplined football, racking up 10 flags for 78 yards over the course of the day. That included brutal late-game penalties — a defensive holding by linebacker Devin Bush and an offsides by defensive end Cameron Thomas — that gifted the Jets a pair of first downs as they were attempting to run out the clock on the final drive of the game. On top of that, the Browns allowed back-to-back special teams touchdowns on kickoff and punt returns in the first quarter of the game, allowing the Jets to build a 14-7 lead without touching the ball on offense.
#DawgPound I’ve been an avid Stefanski supporter, but at some point push comes to shove. It’s over and it needs to be over.
Very well could be rock bottom and that’s saying something for this franchise.
— Cody Suek (@CodySuek) November 9, 2025
This is what happens when you don’t fire people who clearly need to be fired. #Browns#DawgPound
— Mr hardy (@_Teezy_216) November 9, 2025
If the Browns don’t make a change of some sort I will lose it. Team is actually an embarrassment. #DawgPound
— Paulson Roman (@PaulRoman93) November 9, 2025
Stefanski committing to Dillion after that loss deserves the boots.. see ya dude.. it’s been real #DawgPound
— CleMaybeNextYear (@CleMaybesomeday) November 9, 2025
Business decision time in Berea…
Lose out is the only acceptable option.
Then clean house in January…
Take Mendoza or Simpson in April.
Just another insane loss…
Not one, but two… Two…TWo…TWO…. 2! Special Teams TDs given up.Tear it down #DawgPound
— Jonathan Traczyk (@jonathantraczyk) November 9, 2025
The Browns just lost to the worst team in the NFL that just traded their 2 best players, AND they’re coming off a Bye week. Kevin Stefanski had 2 weeks to prepare for the 1-7 Jets and he lost. He can say nothing to save his job at this point. pic.twitter.com/sqNdrba3nQ
— Roberto Shenanigans (@Rob_Shenanigans) November 9, 2025
And that is how Kevin Stefanski’s career should end with the #Browns
14 points given up on specials
Inept offense with ‘his’ QB playing
Had them stopped to get the ball back and commit a penalty to give them a first down
Loss to a team that’s tanking. pic.twitter.com/0Ti9qYbB0p
— PaulieDubs (@browns_irish) November 9, 2025
I wouldn’t let Stefanski get to the podium
— CLEology (@_CLEology) November 9, 2025
Would have to imagine a loss puts a nail in someone’s coffin #DawgPound
— Chad The Dumb Browns Fan (@DumbBrownsFann) November 9, 2025
The long-term outlook
Losing to this iteration of the New York Jets is excruciating in real-time, but there may be some silver linings in the big-picture implications for the Browns. Losing to the Jets specifically gives the Browns a tiebreaker for a higher pick in April’s draft, and the previously-one-win Saints winning in the early window on Sunday certainly helps as well.
Most importantly, however, the first-round pick that the Browns acquired from Jacksonville in the Travis Hunter trade during the 2025 draft got a little bit sweeter. The Jaguars squandered a 19-point fourth-quarter lead to lose to the Houston Texans, and now sit at 5-4 on the season. According to the league’s standings, updated after the early window of Week 10’s Sunday slate, the Jaguars are now barely hanging on to the seventh seed in the AFC’s playoff picture — eking it out over the Kansas City Chiefs due to a head-to-head victory.
If the Browns are going to be in the quarterback market this spring, the improved draft capital can certainly help them acquire one.
#DawgPound With the Jaguars loss, the Browns now hold the #4 and #19 overall picks in the 2026 NFL Draft.
— Cody Suek (@CodySuek) November 9, 2025
The Jaguars just lost to the Texans by a Trevor Lawrence Pick 6!
Both of the Browns 2026 1st round draft picks got a little better today! #DawgPoundpic.twitter.com/u1psuc4uQD
— Ryan Mossor (@DynastyCLE) November 9, 2025
Let’s be real guys.. this loss for the Browns is a MASSIVE WIN.
• We are this much closer to Kevin Stefanski being fired and embracing a rebuild
• Shedeur Sanders is closer to starting
• Browns are setting themselves up perfectly for the draft— Minnesota Browns Fan (@mnbrownsfan) November 9, 2025
Thank you #Texans#HTownMade#DawgPound
— Eric Urbanowicz (@EricProduce) November 9, 2025
Browns lose and Jags lose , bring me my top 3 and top 12 draft picks
— jadenxjx (@jadenxjx) November 9, 2025
Now the Jags blow a 17pt lead. Quite a day for the Browns draft capital.
I’ll take what I can get.
— Tyler Ziskin (@TZiskBuffs) November 9, 2025
Nick Chubb running all over the Jags defense to help the Browns get a better pick pic.twitter.com/HaCTV5bxQZ
— Guard the Land (@HCYNLS) November 9, 2025
Today was a very good day for the Browns 2026 draft
— Football Chopz (@Pchopz_) November 9, 2025
That loss all but guarantees a quarterback selection for the Browns in the draft.
We’re better off debating about who they should actually take in the first round as opposed to will they take one or not, because they’re definitely drafting one.
— Colb (@___Colb___) November 9, 2025
Huge day for Browns draft capital
— goop lord (@Goop_Lord_) November 9, 2025
Only thing that would’ve been better for the Browns today is Giants not blowing it, but great day for the 2026 Cleveland Browns!!!
— Ed Harper (@Edward_Harper4) November 9, 2025
davis mills doing wonders for browns 2026 draft
— Dream (@Dreams_Burner) November 9, 2025
This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: Browns Twitter reacts to embarrassing loss to Jets

