BROWNS CAN’T MOVE FORWARD WITH FREDDIE

By STEVE KING

Everybody – or at least a lot of people, anyway – seem to be making a big deal about Freddie Kitchens’ comment on Monday that he really wants to keep his job as head coach of the Browns.

Wow. That’s a story, complete with the breaking news treatment? Are you kidding me?

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Well, yeah, duh, of course he wants to stay employed. What’s so significant about that?

Nothing, really.

The real story – the real question — is: Should Kitchens stay or go?

I’m not sure. I’m not sure what I think, and I’m certainly not sure what Browns General Manager John Dorsey thinks.

But if I had to make a decision – that is, if I were Dorsey – then I would probably say no. I could be convinced otherwise, but that’s my gut call.

I never thought I’d say that, as I have been a big supporter of Kitchens all along, but he has simply done too many core things wrong. The job seems way too big for him, and I don’t think he can ever close the gap.

I’m totally convinced that Kitchens knows football, but he doesn’t know how to be a head coach. It’s just not in him.

And I think much less now of his coaching staff that I ever have.

As such, with the inabilities of the staff overall, the Browns are getting out-coached every week. The NFL is simply too good, too talented with both players and coaches, and too competitive to be stuck with a ball-and-chain-around-your-leg.

Yes, I know it means starting over – yet again.

And I know there is no guarantee that the next coach will be any better.

But the Browns have to give it a shot. There is too much talent on this team to have these kinds of struggles from a coaching standpoint.

Freddie is a good guy. He really is. But, more than a good guy, the Browns need a good head coach, and Freddie simply isn’t that, and never will be.