BROWNS NOW TURNING INTO VICTIMS

By STEVE KING

With each passing day, the tide is turning for the Browns.

With each passing day, and as the evidence – not the hearsay – continues to enter the picture, the Browns turn a little more into victims and a little less of culprits as it relates to that game-ending fight with the Pittsburgh Steelers a week ago.

Browns defensive end Myles Garrett was wrong, obviously. But he continues to, so fairly so, take the brunt of the blame for what happened. It seems as if, ever since it occurred, the NFL was going to make him completely responsible for everything that took place.

Garrett’s appeal was, of course, denied by the NFL, and such his indefinite suspension by the league, which goes at least through the end of this season, remains intact. His claim that Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph used a racial slur against him, never had a chance of being taken seriously by the league. It was a veritable he-said, he-said, and what Garrett said – what he claimed occurred – was waived off as if it were an advertent flag thrown.

Meanwhile, Rudolph, who started the whole thing – just watch the tape – is going to skirt through this without missing any time at all due to a suspension. In addition, Pittsburgh center Maurkice Pouncey,` who came in to defend Rudolph against Garrett, appeals his three-game suspension and sees it get reduced to two games.

Common sense tells you that is wrong. In no court would that happen, yet with the NFL, it has happened.

And nothing – nothing! – is going to change that.

So when Cleveland and Pittsburgh meet in the rematch at Heinz Field next Sunday, instead of the Steelers being the team with all of the incentive, it will be the Browns. Yes, the Browns.

How about that?

And if the Browns can avoid the upset and get past the sad-sack Miami Dolphins on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium, then they can begin focusing on – and building on and taking advantage of — that incentive.

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