No doubt about it, it’s great that the Browns have extended the contracts of General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski.

It had been expected, but, especially with an organization where dysfunction used to exist in abundance for years, it’s not a done deal until it is officially a done deal.

Indeed, the Browns spent the first 20 years of this expansion era going through general managers and head coaches like water, so to be able to stabilize that and begin establishing some consistency is huge. It has put the team onto the right track.

And the new deals were well-earned, for after the Browns made the playoffs just once in their first 21 years, they have done so twice in the last four years, including in 2023.

But more work — much, much more, in fact  — needs to be done. It’s not about just getting into the postseason, but rather it’s about advancing through it and winning a championship. It’s all about winning a championship. Anything less than that is an object failure. So, then, while the have improved greatly under Berry and Stefanski, their seasons have been, in essence, abject failures because they have gotten nowhere close to winning a Super Bowl.

The Browns are one of just a few teams in the NFL that have not even gotten to a Super Bowl, let alone won it. As such, until that happens, I’m not going to canonize Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry. I’m just not going to do it.

Steve King