Changing walk-off thoughts about the Browns

By STEVE KING

I wonder if Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski took a walk following his team’s 38-6 drubbing by the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday?

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I bet he did — at least a little one; coaches are such workaholics that they are convinced they don’t have time for long ones, or even just longer ones. Anyway, I hope he did, for there have been books written about the benefits of walking, not just for getting healthier physically but also mentally and emotionally. In times of great stress when they had big, important decisions to make, icons like Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Albert Einstein and Henry Ford took walks to clear their heads so as to think things through to a logical, effective plan of action.

And if Stefanski took that walk – and goodness knows he needed to – it might have changed his mind on some things.

I know it did for me.

When I started my walk on Monday, just over 24 hours after the completion of the game, I was full of vim and vigor. I wanted to rip the Browns – hard – for what happened, or didn’t happen, as it were, in Baltimore.

It was inexcusable. Are the Ravens a better team? Sure, but not 32 points better.

Just as it is hard to win by 32 points in the NFL, it is even harder to lose by 32. There is just too much parity to get blowouts like that.

It is almost impossible to sell hope – you can’t sell it, really – when you lose 38-6, when you make enough mistakes of all kinds to choke an elephant.

But instead of advocating for making changes right and left, which was my first, second, third and fourth inclination, I realized that was silly, stupid. The good teams get that way because, in the overall scheme of things, they don’t panic and trash their overall scheme of things. Instead, they take a deep breath, grit their teeth and stay the course, but, certainly and obviously, with much, much better steps.

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