What Amari Cooper truly wanted to accomplish against the Texans and the reasons he is possibly the greatest receiver in Browns history.

When Amari Cooper was pulled from the Texans game with 10:57 remaining and the Browns leading 36-7, his loftier goals were higher than Josh Gordon’s single-game club record. He made a strong case to coach Kevin Stefanski to be allowed to return, but it was ignored.

He was cooking at that point, with 252 receiving yards. Why not follow your instincts?

He stated, “There were ten minutes remaining.” I won’t lie to you—I was really certain that I could score 300 yards because of the game’s rhythm and flow, but it was cool nonetheless. I’m happy the dub came through.

At that point, Cooper had no clue he was only 10 yards short of breaking Josh Gordon’s club record of 261 yards in a solitary game, set in 2013.

“I didn’t have the foggiest idea what Josh Gordon’s record was,” he said after the 36-22 triumph that moved the Browns to 10-5. ” I wasn’t pursuing the record. It was such a lot of time left that I was like, ‘I could achieve significantly more.’

“So that is the very thing that I was all the more so restless about. “OK, I got two-something,” I thought. Why not get 300?”

Stefanski had a technique to his franticness for pulling his starters — every one of them — by then.

The Browns will have the Planes on Thursday night with an opportunity to secure the division, and he had proactively lost kicker Dustin Hopkins to a pulled hamstring and cornerback Martin Emerson Jr. to a shin injury, Gordon’s record be doomed.

“I knew (of it) yet I was likewise thinking we had a brief time frame,” Stefanski said. ” Didn’t resolve how I maintained that it should end up actually working, yet felt like if I would remove a few reps from those folks. He was battling to return in there, so perhaps he willed that to occur.”

As destiny would have it, the Texans — who supplanted Case Keenum with Davis Plants in the final quarter and the game apparently crazy — shut to inside 36-22 with 4:12 left. They did it on a couple of TD passes with 6:08 left and 4:12 left, and Stefanski needed to bring his starters back onto the field.

At that point, Flacco and Cooper had found out about the Gordon record, and realize that Cooper required only 10 yards to break it.

“At the point when we took the field there, I understood,” Flacco said. ” Someone let me know that he really wanted 10 additional yards to have a Browns record. Not that I was presumably going to make a special effort. I would have rather not really needed to made a special effort to do it however the circumstance just scraped by.”

On fourth and 7 from the Houston 26, Flacco tracked down Cooper for 13 yards on a short miss the sideline. Job well done. Gordon’s record failed miserably, and Cooper was the new Browns single-game record holder with a profession high 265 yards on his 11 gets.

“While I was out, the Texans were attempting to get back in the saddle,” Cooper said. ” What’s more, the before you know it was like ‘you’re returning in’ and afterward that is the point at which I knew about the record in light of the fact that two or three individuals told me and I was sufficiently lucky to go get it. Sincerely speaking, if I’m being honest, I don’t take it for granted.

The 265 were the most by any NFL player this season, and the second 200-yard game in Browns history.

Cooper likewise turned out to be just the second player in NFL history other than Terrell Owens to score a 200-yard game with three unique groups.

“At last indeed, I was glad for him,” said Stefanski, who worked out the odd finish to the game. ” I’m glad for Amari on the grounds that he’s a quintessential master. He’s one of the most outstanding I’ve at any point been near. What he is familiar with this game, the manner in which he sees this game, he resembles an academic out there. Join that with the course running capacity, he’s one of this group’s chiefs. These folks love Amari and to see him come through is amazing.”

A 53-yard catch to the on the first play of the game, a 75-yard touchdown, a 7-yard touchdown, a two-point catch, and an eye-popping 13-yarder on fourth and 8 while Flacco was being dragged down are among the highlights of his career. He got the ball across the field, and Cooper wrapped up, some way or another keeping his toes inbounds. His 7-yard touchdown catch was aided by the jaw-dropper.

“Goodness, man, he’s unique,” said Flacco. ” At the end of the day, you know, we had the option to get him open downfield a smidgen yet he had the option to come up for certain balls and be solid to the catch and everything. He’s a unique player.”

Cooper, a four-time Pro Bowler, gave the big-armed Flacco the credit for his hot streak.

Flacco (27 of 42, 368, 3 TDs, 2 INTs, 96.1 rating), has tossed for 300 yards in three straight games.

“Genuinely frankly, I would credit the greater part of it to Joe,” said Cooper, who got a 51-yard TD last week. ” That is to say, he simply has a mind blowing feel for the game. He has an amazing arm. I think clearly with the connection between a recipient and a quarterback, it’s a cooperative relationship. Be that as it may, the most effective way to make sense of it is we network well together.”

Browns guarded end Myles Garrett partook in his fantastic view for the flying firecrackers.

He stated, “Looked like a video game.” They appeared to be straight out of Madden. They were clicking every one of the three levels, whether they were diving deep ball, short, medium, they were right on track and we will require them to be that way. Perhaps not exactly as prevailing as today, but rather they must be in total agreement all through this stretch.”

Notwithstanding the club record, Cooper — ostensibly the most skilled recipient in the Tans — turned into the principal pass catcher in group history to score consecutive 1,000-yard seasons when he tumbled to the ground with the 53-yarder on the primary play.

Hard as that is to trust in the 73-year history of the club, Cooper is quick to make it happen. Jarvis Landry and Ozzie Newsome came close, yet neglected to make it happen.

“Feels perfect,” Cooper said. ” Like I said previously, it’s not something I underestimate it. Simply being able to be available for the team, being consistent, and going out and making plays are what they expect of us. I’m happy to go about my business.”

He became the first Brown since Travis Benjamin in 2015 to record two 50-yard receptions in a game with the 53- and 75-yarders.

On Friday, Cooper, procured in an exchange with the Cowpokes for a fifth-round pick before last season, rapped riotously with colleagues in the storage space, and is having a great time here.

“Winning is dependably fun,” Cooper said. ” It doesn’t make any difference the colleagues — you can have the coolest partners — yet on the off chance that you’re losing it won’t be such a lot of fun since we come in here each day, we work. That is a great deal of difficult work and you need to see a few outcomes from the entirety of that difficult work and when you don’t, it’s extremely disheartening. So I’m having loads of tomfoolery.”