Kevin Stefanski had minimal time to catch his breath or even eat during his first 48 hours on the job as the Browns' new head coach. Among the many to-dos, one item couldn't go undone, and Stefanski made sure to knock it out Monday.

Stefanski reached out to a number of his new players, and that included his quarterback, Baker Mayfield. The soon-to-be third-year signal-caller is in Austin, Texas, for the first part of the offseason, and the conversation was brief, but it was an important moment for Stefanski.

It's the start of what the Browns and Stefanski believe will be a mutually beneficial relationship between the coach and a quarterback with "sky's the limit" potential.

"He is the quarterback. He is the triggerman and that is the exciting part for me," Stefanski said. "I worked with a lot of quarterbacks, a lot of great ones over the years, and I am looking forward to hunkering down with him and getting to work.

"Like any one of our players, when they walk in the building, we will have a detailed plan for them about how they are going to improve. Baker, as a young player, the sky is the limit, but we are going to put in the work to get it done with Baker."

Less than an hour after his second season came to an end, Mayfield vowed to be better than he was in an up-and-down 2019. Coming off a record-setting rookie season, Mayfield completed 59 percent of his passes for 3,827 yards, 22 touchdowns and 21 interceptions. The last stat bothered Mayfield the most because it wasn't reflective of the kind of quarterback he's been in the past.

Mayfield was his own worst critic throughout the team's disappointing 2019 campaign, calling the turnovers "frankly embarrassing for me."