A LOT AT STAKE FOR BOTH THE BROWNS AND DORSEY

By STEVE KING

General Manager John Dorsey is the perfect guy to not just complete the Browns’ rebuilding, but also to take them forward and get them where everybody around here wants to see them go.

First of all, he’s a smart guy – a really smart guy – and not just in football. but also a variety of areas. He’s pragmatic in a wide-screen sense and sees the entire picture for both the Browns and himself.

Dorsey really knocked it out of the park, so to speak, in his first NFL Draft last year in picking Baker Mayfield, who for all the world seems certain to be the franchise quarterback for whom the club has looked since 1985 when a Dorsey kind of guy in the great Ernie Accorsi maneuvered through the dicey waters of the NFL Supplemental Draft to land Bernie Kosar.

But while getting Mayfield was obviously incredibly huge, there is more work to be done. And I think Dorsey will surprise many by scoring big again in this draft starting Thursday night, adding the necessary additional pieces.

That much is, when you think about it, really pretty obvious. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out.

Here, though, is what no one has deciphered or realized – or at least detailed it in the media if they do. And that is that there is also much at stake for Dorsey, personally.

Dorsey came here with something to prove after being fired by the Kansas City Chiefs. Getting axed from any job always presents a crossroads for us. We can either let it defeat us, or we can build upon it and, taking the lessons we learned, use it to do much better when we get a second chance.

This is Dorsey’s second chance.

And if in and with it he can awake that sleeping giant, the Cleveland Browns, and manage them – not coach them, but general manage them – to not only a Super Bowl appearance, which would, of course, be their first, but also a Super Bowl victory to get the job completely done while there is opportunity to do so, they will canonize him in a football sense. There would be no greater thing, professionally, that he could ever achieve.

Don’t kid yourself, that is what drives John Dorsey every single day.

That’s good for him, and also the Browns and their fans.