Myles Garrett’s Frustration Is Exactly What the Browns Need

Mount Rushmore of Browns quarterbacks30 Sep 1990: Quarterback Bernie Kosar of the Cleveland Browns passes the ball during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The Chiefs won the game, 34-0.

Posted By: County Sports Network October 30, 2025

It was in the 1988 training camp when Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, upon hearing that the team had traded starting center Mike Baab to the New England Patriots, angrily slammed his playbook down onto the desk at which he was sitting.

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He was furious, for he had all kinds of confidence in Baab. He had no confidence in young, inexperurbcdx Gregg Rakoczy, the player who was going to take Baab’s place. Rakoczy, then a rookie, had come in for an injured Baab in the 1987 AFC Championship Game against the Denver Broncos and played well, and the Browns thought they could make a transition over to Rakoczy in 1988.

It blew up in the Browns’ faces when, in the 1988 opener against the Kansas City Chiefs, Kosar was hit by a blitzing safety and blew out his throwing elbow. He was never the same, and the play set off a season-long revolving-door situation at quarterback, with the starter being lost to injury five different times. It short-circuited the Browns’ hopes for a Super Bowl title. The improper blocking call by Rakoczy allowed the blitzer to come untouched. Baab was adept at making those calls.

Kosar wanted to win — badly so. Nothing else mattered to him.

That’s not a negative. Rather, it’s a big positive, for, as the great Herman Edwards always likes to say, “You play to win the game.”

I bring up this story because there has been so much made — in a negative way — of Browns defensive end Myles Garrett’s frustration with all the losing, including the fact he has twice angrily slammed his helmet to the ground on the sideline during games this season.

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But the fact of the matter is that his actions are a welcome sign. It shows that despite all his personal accomplishments, it is negated — and then some — by the team’s losing ways.

More Browns should have that kind of desire to change the club’s fortunes.

Steve King

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