BEREA, Ohio -- For Jarvis Landry, peeking at his phone these days is like going over the middle for a high pass: he knows he's going to get slammed.

"I can't even go on my social media without somebody heckling me about (his stats),'' he said. "So I honestly I've just kind turned it off, but that's what I've got to do. I have to stay focused and understand there's a bigger picture. What we're trying to accomplish, that stuff doesn't matter.''

The heckling is over things like his two catches on nine targets for 11 yards against the Chargers, and his 11 catches in his 29 targets from Baker Mayfield over the last three games for 114 yards and two TDs.

"I've got to stay out of the numbers,'' said Landry. "I've got to stay out of the talk of (nine) targets, two catches and all of that. If you don't watch the game, you don't understand that some of the targets aren't catchable, are throwaways, and a lot of times if they're throwaways I put myself in a position to raise my hand like he was throwing it to me when he might've not been, just so we don't get an intentional grounding or whatever it is.

"I've just got to keep my head focused on the task at hand and make the plays when they come. That's the biggest thing.''

Mayfield has shouldered the blame for his lack of chemistry with Landry, saying his teammate is the best receiver in the NFL and that he has to do a better job for him.

"He puts that on himself, but I do think that he throws a lot of catchable balls,'' said Landry. "To take some of that away from him, I have to do a better job of catching them more and making the plays for him. I'm working really hard at that, trying to do that and trying to earn more and more of his trust every day in practice."

Landry said he's been spending extra time with Mayfield to figure out how they work together better.

"Honestly, just getting in the film room, looking at the tape, seeing the communication or if we missed how can we get better at it and knowing the spot to be in,'' he said. "That's really it."

He said it's not just him and Mayfield in those sessions.

"No, it's everybody,'' he said. "I like to go into detail. I like to know what he's thinking. I like to know what (Todd) Haley is thinking. That way, we all can be on the same page.''

With the Browns depleted at the receiver position, it's been Landry and The Others. Against the Chargers, he was double-teamed while rookies Antonio Callaway and Damion Ratley struggled early on. That opened things up for Ratley, who wound up catching six of eight targets for 82 yards with a long gain of 27 in his first NFL start.

But it's been frustrating for Landry, who led the NFL with 112 receptions in Miami last year.

"If you're a defensive coordinator and if there's one guy to stop and you just stop that one guy, your chances go up of winning the game, so why not try to stop that one guy and just see who else can beat you?'' Landry said. "So again like I said, everybody's going to have to make plays, the running game's going to have to get going, and we're going to have to be creative as an offense to find ways to give me one-on-one matchups and I've got to win those.''

Once or twice last Sunday, Landry dropped catchable balls, including one he tried to one-hand. So how can offensive coordinator Haley keep Landry in the game mentally when things aren't going well?

"We have a lot of good conversations,'' said Haley. "It's very hard for a guy that's 'the guy,' so to speak, and gets a lot of opportunities. The most important thing with Jarvis is that he's one of the leaders of our team, and as frustrating as some things may be, there are things that he cannot control and he has to continue to be a leader for us and go out and take every snap as if it is the most important play of the game because it could be.

"Like I said, he did not do it, but nobody else did it either, including us as coaches."

Haley acknowledged that the other players have to perform as well.

"That's been my line for a couple of weeks now,'' he said. "We have to have guys step in and step up. We don't need them to be superheroes. We just need them to just do their job.''

He complimented Ratley after Rod Streater went down with a season-ending neck injury.

"That's the game of football, though,'' said Haley. "We can't cry about it.''

At his current clip (31 catches, 392 yards, 1 TD), Landry will finish the season with 83 catches, far fewer than his league-leading 112 last year. He's far behind the pace that earned him nine TDs last year and his third straight Pro Bowl season. The analytics site profootballfocus.com has him ranked 60th among NFL receivers this season. His 31 catches on 66 targets are tied for 26th in the league and his 392 yards are 28th. His 12.6-yard average is 53rd.

But it's the trend that's concerning. Over the past three games, he's caught only 11 passes -- about 3.6 per game -- for an average of 38 yards per game.