Eight would be great – Just eight Browns wins

By Steve King

Would eight be enough?

That is, if Hue Jackson wins eight games this season – if he goes 8-8 – would that be enough for him to keep his job as head coach of the Browns?

Well, yeah, sure it would. After going 0-16 last year and 1-31 the last two seasons, eight wins would look a Super Bowl championship.

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Mel KIper Jr. thinks the Browns will indeed do that this fall – not win the Super Bowl, mind you, but finish 8-8. The NFL Draft guru said so – directly so, in that many words, last Saturday morning on his ESPN radio show with Dari Nowkhah, “Dari and Mel,” on ESPN Radio, heard locally on Cleveland’s WKNR-AM.

The co-hosts were talking about how coaches of the year in all sports are decided, and Kiper mentioned that a team’s finish is compared to preseason expectations, and the guy who takes his team the greatest distance is the top coach. As such, then, Jackson would be the NFL Coach of the Year if, after having just one win in two years, he wins eight games this season, “which I think he will do.”

Wow!

Kiper wasn’t high on the Browns taking quarterback No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft. He thought it should have been Josh Allen.

And he also wasn’t high on the Browns taking cornerback Denzel Ward of Ohio State and Nordonia High School at No. 4. He wanted Bradley Chubb, which would have made the Browns very Chubby since they ended up drafting running back Nick Chubb in the second round.

Regardless, even with those different opinions, Kiper is a big fan of Browns General Manager John Dorsey and thinks the club did a lot of good things in free agency. That’s why he thinks eight wins aren’t just a reachable goal, but rather will be a reality.

Browns fans have got to be hoping that Kiper is right.