The changes announced by Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski the other day — handing the playcalling duties over to offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey and namingJameis Winston as the starting quarterback for Sunday‘s home game against the Baltimore Ravens — are both useless and useful, and altogether confusing and disappointing.

The moves were made too late to have any impact on the Browns’ long-lost playoff chances. They should have been made weeks ago when they were still in the hunt and it was clearly evident that now-injured Deshaun Watson was not the answer. This team set itself on making the postseason, and advancing. So, then, everything should have been done with that in mind, but it wasn’t. Why?

Conversely, Winston, who was easily the best Browns quarterback in training camp anf the preseason, now has the chance to show what he has. Perhaps it will be enough to earn him  long, legitimate look at starting job next season, if he is still here.

Indeed, the Browns need to find a quarterback, and it isn’t going to be Watson, unless everybody inside the organization loses their minds.

In terms of the playcalling, it was evident with that as well that it wasn’t working. Yet Stefanski continued to do it. He put his own interests in front of the good of the team. That’s unacceptable. Dorsey is the coordinator. If he’s not calling the plays, then what is he doing and why is he here?

The more you get into this offense, and how it has been mismanaged, especially at the quarterback position, the more layers you uncover. It’s a mess the likes of which the Browns have possibly never had in their entire history.

Steve King