It’s not rocket science.

 

When you look around the NFL, you’ll notice one thing. It is that the teams with the best records are the ones getting the best play from their quarterbacks.

 

These teams may or may not be getting the best play from their offensive guards.

 

They may or may not be getting the best play from their wide receivers.

 

They may or may not be getting the best play from their defensive ends.

 

They may or may not be getting the best play from their outside linebackers.

 

And they may or may not be getting the best play from their returners.

 

But they’re getting the best play from their quarterbacks.

 

And that’s all that matters, for no teams win consistently without getting the best play from their quarterbacks.

 

It’s been that way for decades – almost since the modern game began, really – and it is that way now. It will also be that way for decades to go.

 

You can take that to the bank.

 

Quarterback is the most position in team sports. If you’ve got one, then you have a chance. And if you don’t, then you don’t. It’s no more complicated than that.

 

We need to keep that in the front of our minds as we watch the Browns perform this season. It’s great that the Browns have done this, that and the other to bolster their roster. They obviously needed to do that after eight consecutive losing seasons.

 

But until they get their guy at quarterback – not just for a game or a group of games or a season, but for a lot of seasons, for the foreseeable future, in fact – then nothing will ever change and stay changed. The other stuff can’t do that. It can change only little things for only little amounts of time.

 

Will Cody Kessler … well, will he change that for the Browns? Will he end this madness that’s been there for all of the expansion era?

 

We’ll find out more on Sunday when the Browns play the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field.