The Browns are coming off a week that was extraordinarily drama-filled.

And considering all the drama they’ve experienced in the expansion era, particularly this season, that’s saying a lot.

On the heels of a trade/no-trade fiasco with the Cincinnati Bengals involving quarterback AJ McCarron, came the news that wide receiver Josh Gordon would be returning to the team.

OK.

A lot of people got all giddy about Gordon coming back. I was not one of them.

The Browns, with an 0-8 record, all kinds of questions at quarterback and the chief football guy undercutting the legs of the head coach, have enough hot-potato issues already. They have way too many, actually. They certainly don’t need any more.

But they do have more now – one more, and it’s a big one, another big one, as it were.

This is not hard to figure out. If Gordon, a top-flight pass-catcher, had no off-the-field issues, then his return would be a tremendous help to the Browns, especially to their rookie quarterback, DeShone Kizer. But that’s not the case at all, for Gordon is the poster-guy for problems. As jaw-dropping as he is on the field, he is just that jaw-dropping off it.

He’s been like this since college. Just when it has appeared he might finally be getting his act together, he stumbles and falls flat on his face.

Over and over and over again, this see-saw life of his plays out in front of everyone in sad, disappointing fashion.

Anyone – anyone at all, including the Browns – would have to be delusional to believe that Gordon will ever get it figured out, or that he can be counted on consistently for anything productive. He can be counted on for absolutely nothing that anyone would want.

Sure, it’s smart for the Browns to hold on to him for as long as they can. It is not costing them anything – not even a roster spot – at this point. They would be silly to just toss him aside. They have gone this far with Gordon, so why not let the situation play out to its final conclusion, whatever, however, whenever and wherever that is?

In the meantime, though, the dysfunctional Browns have a lot of work to do to get their own house in order so that Josh Gordon being a part of them is a positive and not a negative.

That’s the bigger – much bigger – issue right now because it involves the whole team in a tangible way going forward.