Like a handful of other teams, the Cleveland Browns are not only perpetual losers, but losers that can realistically be expected to continue producing the same result. It is easy to pencil in a sub-.500 winning percentage year-after-year and find the team rarely over-performing.
It is, of course, too easy.
Eventually, the Browns will have to break their skid. The National Football League is built to allow teams to reset and recycle, but the Browns continue to miss the boat. Cleveland is not alone in this vicious cycle, but its disasters tend to be high-profile and explosive. After all, this is the same franchise that drafted a quarterback in the first round whose ‘symbol’ – that’s right, he had a ‘symbol,’ which should end the conversation, in itself – was a gesture for money, then could not understand why selfish acts caused the team to implode.
As unbelievable as it might sound, this is not the same Cleveland Browns organization. If, as the saying goes, a fish rots from the head, then a solid leader should provide better results.