I talked in my last post about the issues – the ones that are constantly in the news – concerning two of the Browns’ AFC North rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens.

In Pittsburgh, Ben Roethlisberger has openly wondered why the Steelers used a third-round pick in the NFL Draft to take another quarterback in Mason Rudolph.

In Baltimore, Joe Flacco is so annoyed that the Ravens drafted a quarterback at the end of the first found that he refuses to talk to Lamar Jackson.

Big quarterbacks with big egos, and seemingly small regard for their teams. That’s not exactly a recipe for success.

All NFL teams – all teams in all sports at all levels, actually – face issues. They just do. It’s the way it is.

That’s not the focus. Rather, it is how teams deal with those issues.

Some don’t deal with them – not well, at least. They mess it up – totally so. It’s why those teams lose. The issues take the impetus off winning.

It’s been the problem – or at least one of them – for the Browns throughout the expansion era. They’ve turned small issues into bigger ones, and big ones into even bigger ones.

But the Browns aren’t the only ones. There are a number of teams in that boat.

The Steelers and Ravens aren’t in that boat, however. There is solid structure in both organizations. They have a certain, planned-out way of doing things. They don’t panic. They won’t get into name-calling. They handle things behind closed doors and move on as one – a team.

So the Browns – and the others – would do well to watch how the Steelers and Ravens work through these very public controversies. They could learn something from it.

The Browns, having acquired Tyrod Taylor in an offseason trade to be their veteran starter – their bridge – and then drafting Baker Mayfield No. 1 overall, likely will such quarterback issues at some point. How the Browns handle it will have a lot of say about how strong the organization is, and whether it has a chance to succeed.