BEREA, Ohio — Odell Beckham Jr. acknowledged that he and Baker Mayfield are still developing their in-game timing and chemistry and that it will just take time.

“That comes from experience, it comes from playing in games together,’’ Beckham said Thursday. “Live bullets are different than when we’re in practice and you don’t have to worry about this or that, it’s tough to compare.

"The only way to get it is game reps. So if there ever was any frustration, it’s because I know that. I’m a little older, I’m been doing this, I know that when you get it in games it has more confidence from in game. You can go through the whole week of practice and catch 30 balls and then get to the game and you don’t have the same thing that’s going on.

"It comes from that experience, and the more games we have together the better we’ll be. But it’s time for us to turn it on. ... (Mayfield) is a phenomenal player and I just want to be able to help him in every which way I can.’’

Beckham admitted that he’s still adjusting to the in-game differences between Mayfield and Giants quarterback Eli Manning, with whom he spent the first five years of career. Specifically, Mayfield throws a much harder ball that Beckham hasn’t completely adjusted to yet, and the placement on his body or in certain situations is different than what he’s experienced.

Again, practice is one thing, but the heat of the moment is entirely different.

“As far as Eli and I, once you know (what he’s going to do), you just know. It comes from experience, like I said, in games. There was multiple times it happened in games and if you did miss in a game, it wasn’t like a big deal, it was like, ‘oh, we know why we missed.’ ... I played with (Manning) for five years, so it’s a lot easier than just coming in and somebody who’s throwing a 900 mile an hour fastball, he’s just got a different arm.

“(Mayfield) can throw the ball from one hash all the way on the comeback in a second, so it’s definitely different. And, like I said, it just comes from game experience.’’

As a result, Beckham is tied for 34th with 34 receptions and 23rd with 488 yards — 89 coming on one catch-and-run TD against the Jets. According to profootballfocus.com, Beckham is the No. 48 ranked receiver in the NFL this season with a 70.4 grade. He’s tied for eighth in the NFL with four drops, and is tied for 12th in the NFL with 57 targets. Three of Mayfield’s 12 interceptions -- tied for the league lead -- are on passes intended for Beckham, tied for sixth-most in the NFL.

He’s also 87th in the league with only 12 deep targets --of 20 yards or more -- and has caught three.

The most disconcerting thing so far is that one TD catch and how he’s rarely targeted in the red zone. But Beckham is optimistic it will come. He’s not sure exactly when, just that it will.

“Yes. I have no doubt in my mind that at some point in time it’s going to be everything that we all talked about, and that’s why you have those conversations, those talks and you want to know what can I do better,’’ he said. “I’m going to be the first one to look at myself and be like, ‘what can I do better?’ What are my weaknesses on the field, off the field, whether it’s communication, whatever it is, you just find that weakness.’’

Beckham and Landry limited with injuries

Beckham, limited this week with a groin injury that he first suffered before the season, has been working on and off the field to be the player the Browns acquired — a superstar receiver who can take them to the next level.

“Like I said, I’ve been growing, I get out of that comfort zone and try and find how I can be better and help this team, how I can be better to help Baker, because he’s going to be a phenomenal player,’’ said Beckham.

He explained what happened on that back-shoulder throw in the third quarter of Sunday’s 27-13 loss to the Patriots that bounced off his bicep. It was on a third-and-10 from their own 25 with the Browns trailing 24-10. It seemed an example of the lack of timing between the two, but Beckham noted it wasn’t exactly what it seemed.

“It was the play we had all week to run it,’’ he said. “We didn’t really get the look we wanted, but we already had the play called. ... It’s a play conceptually if you know football, I’m not just clearing it out but I’m getting it open so Jarvis [Landry] is coming open in that same zone. Honestly the ball was just in the light. If I could have seen it, I would have caught it. It’s kinda coming late and I’m looking and then like all of a sudden the ball hits you.’’

He acknowledged that more time with Mayfield would lead to probably making that play.

“Those little things, even when I was in New York it was still something like, those balls are hard,’’ he said. “Those are something that comes with experience, it comes with game reps. You practice that in practice all the time, but it’s different in the game, it’s different bullets.''

He noted that the timing and chemistry of certain plays like the back shoulder are especially tricky.

"If we’re running a go route and I’m trying to beat a man over the top and I’m not looking for the ball and it goes back shoulder, it’s different than I’m looking for the ball and I’m running back shoulder, now the DB has my whole chest and he’s pushing me out of bounds, now the ball’s going this way. Those are some of the toughest things.’’

He noted that he may have pressed at times to get something going.

“I’ve had drops this year and it’s just been things that maybe I’ve been too worried about something else and how this was going,’’ he said. “Just wanting to be in the right place and then I’m not. ... It’s just something over game time that we’re going to see what we’ve all been waiting to see. And then everyone in here we’re going to be all smiling and the questions are going to be different and we’re going to be rolling and I think we’ll be on our way to where we want to go.’’

But Mayfield stated Wednesday that his sense of urgency is at an all-time high, and Beckham vowed to take some of the heat off his young quarterback.

"You can’t sit here and say it’s all on him,'' said Beckham. "You have to take a look at everything that’s going on around him. And obviously he has to play better, I have to play better, Jarvis, [Nick] Chubb, we all have to do better. Can’t sit there and be like ‘it’s Baker’s fault.’

"I’m going to jump in the fire with him. I’ll be the first one. Some of these losses are on me. I need to be in the right place at the right time. I need to be better. And that’s what I plan to do for the rest of the season.''

He re-iterated what he said before the Seahawks game, when he vowed to set aside his internal struggles and play with a renewed energy.

"I felt like I was back to me,'' he said. "I felt like I was back to playing and having that love and I never want to go into a negative space again, so I’m bringing it to the field every single time I get out there. And I know that we’ll see things turn around here shortly.''

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