The Cleveland Browns entered Week 5 with a great opportunity to build upon a surprising 3-1 start and bolster their placement in the early playoff standings on the road against the New York Jets. 

They fell short in that venture thanks in large part to the remnants of Hurricane Isaias that lingered of East Rutherford, NJ, on Sunday. A 17-12 loss drops the upstart Browns to 3-2 on the season, with a huge division matchup looming next week. 

Here's what we learned this week: 

I asked Todd Monken on Friday how the relentless rain forecasted for Week 5 could impact the game plan, and he made it clear that they had to find a way to move the football regardless. It's a fair answer, but the rain was a major factor in the final score. 

Deshaun Watson struggled with accuracy issues all day because of the wet ball. His receivers didn't help him out either, as the drops piled up over the 60-minute affair.

Arguably the biggest blow of all came on special teams (it's always special teams when these two teams in MetLife Stadium), when Corey Bojorquez couldn't handle the snap on a key, fourth-quarter punt that wound up being recovered by the Jets. Three plays later, Braelon Allen was racing across the goal line for a 22-yard TD run that gave New York the lead and eventually the win. 

The rain really mucked this game up and Cleveland had very few adjustments to overcome their mistakes today. 

There was hope that this could be a week where the Brown got their run game on the right track, considering the Jets entered Sunday as the 25th ranked rushing defense in the NFL, yielding over 120 yards per game on average. That turned out to be nothing but wishful thinking. 

In the first half, Cleveland mustered only 39 rushing yards on 12 attempts, 21 of those came from Quinshon Judkins, who had seven carries. Judkins did break off his longest run of the season for 14 yards as part of that figure, but he continued to find very little room to run the football overall.

It didn't get much better in the second half. Judkins added 23 more yards to his total to finish with 44, and the team finished with only 96 total. 

Five weeks into the season, we can definitively say this is a glaring weakness for the Browns, and one they need to get figured out. 

On a day where the Browns defense compiled four sacks on Geno Smith, most of those could be attributed to the secondary. There were a number of occasions where Smith stood in the pocket for three-plus seconds and just had nowhere to go with the football, before being swallowed up by Cleveland's D-line.  

There were multiple times when missed tackles killed the Browns' defense, and it was the guys in the secondary who were the biggest culprits. Safety Ronnie Hickman missed two key tackles on the Jets first offensive possession, including on the 31-yard catch-and-run touchdown by Garrett Wilson.

Tackling has been hot and cold all season for the Browns this season, but in a game as low-scoring as this one was, just one or two misses wound up having a major impact on the game. 

Williams admitted this week that he had this weekend's matchup against his former team circled since the schedule came out and that he'd be bringing a little extra juice to the field. He backed it up by racking up 11 tackles, a pass breakup and forcing three fumbles.

The third of those wound up being the only one Cleveland recovered, but it was a huge one on Kenyon Sadiq as the Jets had moved up to the Browns' five-yard line. Williams' impact in this game was evident. 

Entering the fourth quarter, Boston had only one catch for nine yards on two total targets. In the fourth quarter, Deshaun Watson finally started looking the way of his No. 1 target more often and it paid off. 

Watson capped off the team's best drive of the game with a 29-yard bomb to the rookie with a little over six minutes left in the game to give the Browns a temporary 12-10 lead. He had another nice catch earlier in the drive as well. Good things tend to happen when he's getting targets. Watson and the offense have to find more ways to force-feed him the football. 

Fitzpatrick is already considered one of the biggest Cleveland sports villains for essentially ending Nick Chubb's career with the gruesome hit back in 2023 when he was with the Steelers. 

He didn't do himself any favors on Sunday, delivering another ugly hit on a Browns rookie WR KC Concepcion, in the first quarter. Fitzpatrick pretty clearly led with the crown of his helmet and made direct contact with Concepcion's helmet, knocking the ball out of his hands and sending the No. 24 overall pick to the turf.

For a few tense minutes, Concepcion stayed down on the turf and wasn't moving much. He ultimately got up and walked to the locker room with the trainers but was immediately ruled out for the rest of the game. It was as dirty a hit as you'll see in today's NFL and came after Fitzpatrick had also been flagged for a facemask penalty on Concepcion earlier in the drive, too.