Someone in media relations — or much further up the food chain at Brown’s headquarters in Berea — needs to get General Manager Andrew Berry to just shut up.

Now.

This monent.

This instant.

For every time he opens his mouth, he says something — or quite a few things, actually — stupid. And in doing so, he makes himself — and much more importantly, the Browns — look stupid.

Such was the case — yet again — when he did one of periodic meetings with the media the other day.

We’ll deal with the other stuff the next time, but foremost among the stupid stuff he said came when he doubled down on his statement that letting veteran backup quarterback Joshua Dobbs get away and using rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson as the next guy in line behind starter Deshaun Watson was best for the team.

If he truly thinks that — and I have to take him at his word — then the Browns aren’t serious about winning this season. Berry said his decision was best for the Browns now and in the future. So not true. It is best for down the road, certainly, because DTR has a higher ceiling than Dobbs, but it is not so for 2023, which is all anyone should care about. I am concerned about winning now. I’ll worry about the future seasons when they come.

So, then, Berry should have kept all three quarterbacks coming out of training camp and the preseason. You overspend and overprotect yourself at quarterback, the most important position in team sports. Just as you can never have enough capable pitching in baseball, you can never have enough capable quarterbacks in football.

Steve King