WITH THESE BROWNS, IT’S EASY TO BE WRONG

By STEVE KING
Whoops.
No, make that whoops times two.
Unlike Fonzie, who was so cool in the long-ago TV sitcom, “Happy Days,” that he just couldn’t bring himself to ever say he was wrong, I can. I have absolutely no problem with it, When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. Just ‘fess up, swallow your Lake Erie-sized male pride and move on. It’s no big deal.
In the last part of the last line of my preview story for their road game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, I said the Browns would win big.

All of @NickChubb21‘s top plays vs. the Jaguars 🚂#ProBowlVote + Nick Chubb pic.twitter.com/6TnIIN8mL6

— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) December 1, 2020

But, of course, they didn’t. Instead, they won “small,” by an incredibly small margin, 27-25, which occurred only because the Jaguars failed to convert a two-point conversion after their touchdown late in the game,
A win is a win is a win. It doesn’t matter the margin or the score.
What we learned — and what I forgot and then learned anew — on Sunday is while the Browns are an ultra-impressive at 8-3 and are steaming toward earning an AFC playoffs spot, for the first time in 18 years, as a wild card, they have a lot of young and inexperienced players who are still learning (there’s that word again) how to win. They’ve made a lot of progress in that regard, but they still have a ways to go.
As such, then, they don’t blow anyone out, not even the Jaguars, who fell to 1-10 and fired their general manager following the game. Moreover, they can’t. So even though two of their remaining foes, New York’s Jets and Giants, are horrible and pretty bad, respectively, don’t expect the Browns to crush them. Those games will likely be dawgfights, just like all of the rest of their wins thus far.
And this Kardiac Kids-like way with which the Browns go about their business, is exciting, The Browns are winning — and doing so in a fun, must-see fashion — so the fans are getting the best of both worlds, their cake and eat it, too, as it were.