Mike Pettine and Ray Farmer gave the Browns plenty of reasons to fire them as head coach and general manager, respectively.

There’s the losing. The inability to procure talent. The inability to develop the talent when it was procured.

The NFL is a production-based, bottom-line business, and, with those two knuckleheads in charge, there was no production and as such the Browns’ bottom-line was … well, at the bottom of the league.

But aside from that, there were other reasons to get those two guys out of the building.

They were insubordinate. Owner Jimmy Haslam took them on a retreat in the offseason so they could talk out their differences, mend fences and go forward as one, but they still fought. They put their egos, and their own personal agendas, above what was good for the team. They were stubborn, and they refused to budge off that stubbornness.

That’s unacceptable, and it’s been going on all season, which is why they both should have been fired long ago.

Doing it is hard, but the formula for success, whether it be an ice cream company or a football team, is simple.

Show up every day, do your job and do it well, and be willing to check your ego at the door and do whatever helps the company.

Other than showing up, Pettine and Farmer did little of that. It’s why they’re unemployed.