It’s the Jacoby Brissett show now.

The Browns are his team.

Are you ready for that?

Are you really, truly ready for that?

I’m not sure I am.

But, along with all the Deshaun Watson stories dominating the news not just concerning the Browns but in the NFL overall as they get ready to host the Philadelphia Eagles at 1 p.m. Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium in their second of three preseason games and the first of two straight at home, fans will now turn their attention to Brissett and begin focusing in earnest on him.

Indeed, how the Browns fare for the 11 regular-season games of Watson’s suspension will depend largely – almost entirely, really – on Brissett, a veteran journeyman backup.

Always keep in mind that quarterback is the most important position in team sports. If a team has a good one, then it has a good chance. And if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t. It’s really that simple.

A year ago at this time, as the Browns, with quarterback Baker Mayfield, preparing for the 2021 season and trying to build upon all the success thy had had in 2020 in making it to the playoffs for the first time in 18 years, who would have thought they would be in this situation, with Mayfield the likely starter for the Carolina Panthers as they host the Browns in the regular-season opener and Cleveland, with a ready-made team that can certainly be a Super Bowl contender if it gets capable quarterback play, forced to lay its fortunes on Brissett?

Nobody would have thought it possible. There was no chance that it could happen. It was too crazy.

But lo and behold, here it is in real time, sadly so.

Don’t feel bad for the Browns. They are totally at fault for this. They caused all this when they traded for Watson.

And now they have to deal with it and try to make it work.

Lots of luck with that.