Full disclosure here: For a variety of reasons, I’m really rooting for Browns head coach Mike Pettine to build on yesterday’s 33-30 win in overtime over the Baltimore Ravens and do enough over the rest of the season to keep his job.
 
He’s a good guy who always wins the press conferences, even after tough losses, with his honest and open approach to answering questions. You root for good guys. You want good things to happen to good people. That’s only human nature.
 
But more importantly, if Pettine keeps his job, then that means owner Jimmy Haslam won’t be blowing things up at the end of the season, which in turn means the fans won’t have to go through the process yet again of having to wait while a new coach installs his program and gets the kind of players he wants. That takes time, and the fans have already waited way too long for a winner.
 
Keeping Pettine also means the Browns are winning, and it’s all about winning. Enough of the losing already. It’s been going on for all but two seasons since 1999.
 
Let’s see what happens – the season is not quite one-third over yet – but after probably putting his foot deeper and deeper into the grave with the disappointing losses of the previous two weeks, Pettine took a step back the other way with yesterday’s big triumph.
 
Again, full disclosure here: The only negative about keeping Pettine is that it might mean Haslam would also keep General Manager Ray Farmer, whose pompous nature, deceitfulness and Terminal Tower-sized ego, along with his belief that he’s always the smartest guy in the room, his misses the top of the NFL Draft and his refusal to draft wide receivers in this pass-happy game that the NFL is today, make him a cancer in the organization that needs to be removed ASAP.