From start to finish this season, everything about this Browns offense was confusing.
And as we head into an offseason that, way back when, wasn’t predicted to start this early, things just keep getting even more confusing.
That came with the firing, just hours after the season concluded last Saturday night with a 35-10 loss in Baltimore, of offensive coordinator — and former Browns quarterback — Ken Dorsey and offensive line coach Andy Dickerson.
The move with Dickerson was hardly surprising, as the line struggled all season, often mightily so. He had a tough act to follow in Bill Callahan, but soon, he had to h ok.
With Dorsey, though, it’s more complicated and . . . well, confusing. This was one of the worst seasons ever for a Browns offense, especially when it came to quarterback. It was a total mess. Nothing worked, flowed or made sense. It was hard to figure out the theme of offense.
Hmmm.
But wasn’t this the offense put together in the offseason by head coach Kevin Stefanski? Didn’t it have his handprints all over it? Didn’t he oversee the construction of the specific gameplan each week? And didn’t he call the plays for much of the season? Even after he gave the play calling duties to Dorsey, those calls were going through Stefanski’s headset, so if he didn’t like them, he could have vetoed them right then and there. He is, after all, the head coach, right?
Granted, Dorsey is no Lindy Infante, but in reality, he was just Stefanski’s puppet, as was the previous coordinator, Alex Van Pelt, who got fed up with it all and left.
So, then, at any point, did Stefanski give consideration to firing the real coordinator, Kevin Stefanski?
Steve King