ARE BROWNS WORSE OFF THAN OTHER TEAMS?
By STEVE KING
All NFL teams have been thrown for a loss with the coronavirus pandemic, but are Browns worse off?
Even the veteran head coaches, such as the New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick, the Kansas City Chiefs’ Andy Reid and the Dallas Cowboys’ Mike McCarthy, are no doubt having to really think this thing through to figure it out, especially with the free-agency signing period set to begin Wednesday and the NFL Draft, planned to go off in about 5½ weeks, severely affected because of major travel restraints. After all, this is the mother of all distractions, and there is no precedence for it, nothing to which anyone – even those smart guys — can refer.
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So, then, if those guys – the ones who have been through all those wars for so many years – are a bit flummoxed, then what about the newbies – the first-year head coaches – such as the Browns’ Kevin Stefanski? Are they even further behind?
The guess here – and it’s not some profound discovery, some epiphany, as it were, since anyone can come to this conclusion if they really stop to consider it – is that yes, definitely, absolutely, without question and without any shadow of a doubt, it is a significant detriment for the Browns to have a first-year coach, regardless of he is Kevin Stefanski or someone else. It just is. No shot at him at all, but the evidence is overwhelming.
Then, when you combine a neophyte like Stefanski with a first-year general manager in Andrew Berry, the slope becomes even more slippery.
And did we mention that both Stefanski (37 years old) and Berry (32) are both so young that they can remember their high school days in clear detail?
Ugh.
That makes the situation more troubling still.
In addition, the fact that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is, by his own admission, still trying to learn how to do his job, doesn’t help at all, either.
Can the Browns get through this OK, even well?
Yes, certainly, of course they can.
But, much more importantly, will they?
We’ll see. Only time will tell.
