Most important Browns questions looked at in Doerschuk piece
By STEVE KING
At Browns Daily Dose, we will always – always! – tell you the really good stuff to read and watch out there, even if it’s not always here.
Why, because good stuff to read and watch is sometimes hard to find.
And in that regard, then, you need to read Steve Doerschuk’s cover story in USA Today’s special edition 2020 NFL Forecast magazine that is now on sale at newsstands everywhere. The piece by Doerschuk, the longtime outstanding Browns beat writer of the Canton Repository, is entitled, as indicated at the upper left on the magazine’s cover, “Can the Browns’ luck finally change?”
“Why?” you ask. “Why do we need to read this?”
Good questions. So, let me explain.
What about this?
What about that?
What about that thing over there?
In the offseason, especially this unprecedented one given our pandemic nightmare, Browns fans – and those of the 31 other NFL teams as well – are dissecting every little thing about their teams, wondering about them all and asking question after question after question.
I get it. I truly get it. It’s what fans do as they continue to whet their appetites for football, particularly when there is none other than in a virtual sense, which, in terms of interest, has none at all. It’s also what media members do as they try to whet readers’ and viewers’ appetites for their stories, at least for the ones that have nothing to do with virtual football.
Think of it this way: Virtual football is like eating cotton candy, looking for the pot of gold at the end of rainbow or listening to what politicians say, in that there is absolutely nothing of substance there.
But in reality, the only questions that matter, at least in terms of the Browns, are these:
Can the Browns’ luck finally change?
Will the Browns’ luck finally change?
Can the Browns finally win?
Will the Browns finally win?
Those are the ones, and the only ones. Period. End of statement.
It’s not, “Is Kevin Stefanski the right head coach to get the Browns to where they want to go, and that is to a Super Bowl championship?”
It’s not, “Can Baker Mayfield have a bounce-back season in 2020 – provided 2020 actually happens, which, I consider to insist, is not the given that everybody seems to think it is – and become the franchise quarterback the Browns need him to be if they have any hope at all of winning a Super Bowl championship?”
And it’s not, “Is Executive Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager (whew, that’s one long title!) Andrew Berry the right guy to procure the necessary talent for the Browns to win a Super Bowl championship?”
While all those questions are vitally important, obviously, in that their answers are contributing factors, they are not the most important Browns questions.
They are, as Doerschuk’s USA Today magazine story title indicates, “Can the Browns’ luck finally change?”
Along with that, “Will the Browns’ luck finally change?”
And, “Can the Browns finally win?”
And finally, “Will the Browns finally win?”
Win what?
A Super Bowl championship.
It’s not just winning games, not just contending for the playoffs, not just winning playoff games, not just getting to conference championship games, not just winning conference championship games and not just getting to the Super Bowl.
No, it’s about WINNING the Super Bowl.
That’s all that matters, ever, in a business where only the bottom line matters.
It is the unspoken end-game that Steve Doerschuk’s story discusses.
That’s why reading it is well worth your time, and purchasing the magazine is well worth its $4.95 cover price.
I’m not virtually certain of it, but, much more importantly and convincingly, I am actually, completely and up-and-close-and-personal certain of it.
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