DRAMA IS A PART OF TODAY’S NFL, SO DEAL WITH IT

By STEVE KING

When’s the last time that a hernia has been the main topic with the Browns?

Uh, that would be never – that is, until just the other day.

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But that’s the way it is now in the NFL. Drama – of all kinds – is a big part of the game. All teams have it, so they just have to roll with it.

This isn’t going to change – that is, in regard to subsiding – anytime soon. Rather, it’s going to get only bigger – and bigger and bigger.

Football in 2019 is as much entertainment as anything else. Yeah, it’s blocking and tackling, but it’s also has all of the other crazy, but oh, so interesting, stuff that makes it seem as if it’s a movie or some kind of football soap opera.

So, Browns fans, don’t worry about Herniagate. It will all work itself out, and if it doesn’t – at least not right away – then some other drama-filled issue will sack it and knock it to the sideline and out of the game.

While all that is going on, what I really want to know is a pure football question, or questions, as it were: why don’t the Browns run the ball more? Why don’t they hand the ball off to Nick Chubb, the NFL’s leading rusher, over and over and over again? Why don’t they ride him? After all, this is Cleveland, the home of Pro Football Hall of Fame running backs?

Moreover, why don’t they just put Kareem Hunt in the backfield with Chubb and leave him there? Forget what head coach Freddie Kitchens says, why can’t he and his lieutenants on offense understand just how much of a headache that tandem is for opposing defenses? Why do they insist on throwing the ball so much?

Why?

Why?

Why?

More than all of this hernia stuff, I want to know the answers to my questions. And it’s giving me a headache as a I wait and worry about it.

Then we have this cheating thing everybody does

Here are the Browns once again with a tie to a cheating controversy tied to head coach Bill Belichick and his New England Patriots.

Deflategate began several years ago when former longtime Browns linebacker D’Qwell Jackson, then with the Indianapolis Colts, intercepted a Tom Brady pass in the AFC Championship Game and, as he tossed the ball to a ballboy to keep it as a memento, made mention that the ball didn’t seem to have enough air in it.

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Now comes the assertion that Patriots employees filmed the Cincinnati Bengals sideline during their game with the Browns last Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium. The Bengals host the Patriots on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium.

Who knows what will happen with this, or how it will compare – if at all — to the fallout from Deflategate?

But what we do know, or at least should know, is this: while everybody, including all the holier-than-thou people, will come down off their lofty perches and decry the evil nature of the dastardly Belichick and the Patriots, the truth of the matter is that they are envious. If Belichick and the Pats did indeed cheat, what makes these do-gooders most irate is that they didn’t come up with the idea first.

They all cheat. Everybody in not just the NFL, but in all of pro sports and all of major college sports, cheats, if only in small ways. Some do it in much bigger ways.

The Houston Astros cheated.

For years way back in the day, the Cleveland Indians were accused of cheating by allegedly stealing catchers’ signs to pitchers from a slot in the big scoreboard at old Cleveland Stadium.

Many college football and basketball coaches are one step ahead of the law, in this case the NCAA.

The list goes on and on and on.

So, before you criticize former Browns head coach Bill Belichick, think: is your team’s or school’s own house in order?

Probably not.

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