HUNTing for a negative

Hunting for a negativeCLEVELAND, OHIO - NOVEMBER 10: Running back Kareem Hunt #27 of the Cleveland Browns runs for a gain during the first half against the Buffalo Bills at FirstEnergy Stadium on November 10, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)

Posted By: County Sports Network September 10, 2020

Hunting for a negative and can’t find one

By STEVE KING

I’ve said it before, I’m saying it right now and I’ll likely say it in the future – perhaps even many times – but these Browns are looking more and more like the original franchise’s mid-1980s teams.

I immediately thought these thoughts – and have continued to think them – when the news broke the other day that the Browns had signed running back – and Willoughby South High School and University of Toledo product – Kareem Hunt to a two-year contract extension.

I’m hunting for a negative, but there is no negative – absolutely, positively no negative – to that move, one of the many good ones the Browns have made since the team of General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski took over. Indeed, on paper at least, they are doing everything right, bringing in a slew of young, talented players who, as they mature and develop, should just keep getting better and better.

There are those – I get it, for I wondered, too – who say the Browns’ commitment to Hunt means they may well have less of one to the team’s other back, starter Nick Chubb. After all, there is only so much money to go around, right? Right.

But let’s look at this logically. Hunt’s contract wasn’t for much money at all. He wanted to stay with his hometown Browns and was more than willing to give the club a deal to do so.

And also, why in the world would the Browns, who, with Stefanski, want to run the ball a lot, almost as much as they want to take their next breath, go all in on Hunt and then not go all in when it’s time to re-up Chubb?

Byner and Mack?

Yeah, I think. I think.

Anyway, that worked put pretty well, didn’t it?

Well, didn’t it?

Yes, it did.

We can hope for a re-do, can’t we, going back to the future?

Sure.

This time of year, with nary a false-start penalty having been called, a pass being having been thrown or a touchdown having been scored, hope is in full bloom.

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