The NFL operates at full-go for 49 weeks of the year.

But for three weeks – the last one in June and the first two in July, the period of time that we have just entered – the entire league goes on vacation. Players, coaches, front-office people and members of the support staff “get out of Dodge,” as it were, and charge their battery so as to get ready for the long haul that lies ahead in training camp, the preseason, the regular season and, for the best teams, the postseason.

Virtually nothing – no work or business of any kind – gets done.

This down time is needed, for without it – without the rest that it provides — the men – and now also a growing number of women – wouldn’t make it through. They would run out of gas before the end.

With that in mind, then, it will be interesting to see what happens with all but the players and many of the support-staff members with the Browns. The coaches and front-office people haven’t gone on vacation. They can’t, because they have to stick around to see what the NFL hands down in terms of punishment, if any (yeah, right), to quarterback Deshaun Watson in relation to these sexual misconduct claims by message therapists. Almost all of the civil lawsuits against him have been settled, but the league has said that that will have no bearing on its own investigation.

So, in Browns Headquarters in Berea, they are still on the job, sitting and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, on the league’s decision, and grumbling, and grumbling, and grumbling

These are the kinds of tentacles that no one thought about in the Watson situation, but here they are, rearing their ugly heads.

Will all this extra work time this year, will these members of the Browns have the stamina to make it through to the end?

We will have to wait and see.