Jimmy Haslam has made a lot of mistakes in his 3½ years as owner of the Browns owner.

That’s a point that can’t be debated. The record is what it is.

And for that, he has taken a beating from both the public and the media. It has been merciless in many respects.

But to be fair, we have to give credit where credit is due, and with that, then, we must point out that Haslam is enjoying an excellent offseason.

He started right after the 2015 season ended by getting rid of General Manager “Wrong Way” Ray Farmer and head coach “Money” Mike Pettine. Then he hired as Pettine’s replacement Hue Jackson, who, at least on paper, appears to be an excellent fit as head coach because of his knowledge of quarterbacks and offense, two primary needs of the Browns. He has also assembled a staff that is much, much better than those put together by Pettine in his two seasons. Included in that is the hiring of Ray Horton as defensive coordinator, a huge upgrade over Jim O’Neil, and of Al Saunders and Pep Hamilton on the offensive side.

The jury is still out on Haslam’s hiring of former team counsel Sashi Brown as executive vice president of football operations, Paul DePodesta, an analytics guru, as chief strategy officer and Andrew Berry as vice president of player personnel, but there’s no realistic way that, as a group, they can be as bad as Farmer, who blew four first-round picks in the NFL Draft the last two years.

The Browns are also set to finally part ways with quarterback Johnny Manziel, one of those first-round selections who, since arriving in Cleveland, has made many more headlines for what he did off the field than on it. That’s addition by subtraction in every way, shape and form.

Speaking of draft picks, the Browns, who own the No. 2 overall choice, seem to be working hard and doing their due diligence on possible selections, something at which Farmer failed miserably.

Haslam announced the other day that the Browns will build a statue of Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown outside FirstEnergy Stadium to be unveiled early next season. That is long, long overdue.

And finally, Haslam made the declaration that the team will not raise ticket prices for the 2016 season. He apparently fully gets it that it would be a horrible PR move to ask fans to pay more for tickets when the product has been so bad for so long. That’s the way you do it in private business, and that’s the way it should be done in sports. When the product is of higher quality, then the cost of the tickets can be higher, too – but not until then.