Just like I trust Browns head coach Hue Jackson – even with his historically egregious 1-31 overall mark – I trust the team’s new general manager, John Dorsey.

In fact, I might trust Dorsey even more.

Really.

Why?

Because he is reputed to be a good football man by almost every account.

As such, then, he needs the chance to do what he thinks is best to get the Browns back on track. It may not be what I want or you want or your Uncle Herman and Aunt Tizzy want. But while that matters to us, it doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things. All that matters is getting it right with the NFL Draft, free agency and everything else that concerns personnel. The Browns have struggled for way too long for how they get better to be anyone’s concern. Just get better, however it happens.

With all that having been said, though, I hope – I sincerely hope – that the Browns don’t trade out of the first and fourth overall picks in this year’s draft. That would be such a cop-out – such a “I don’t know what I’m doing, so I’m just going to trade down” move – that I think I would go crazy if they did it.

Again.

Too may times in the past in this expansion era, the Browns – in the person of Sashi Brown, Eric Mangini and others – have traded down and messed everything up. The Browns get more draft picks – lesser picks, but more nonetheless — but they miss on all of them.

So what was the purpose of doing it in the first place?

I want the Browns – in the person of Dorsey, a man, as I said, I rsally trust – to put on his big-boy pants, plant his feet firmly and use the first and fourth choices to get players who could help the team dramatically. And goodness knows the Browns have enough positions, especially quarterback, offensive skill players and cornerback, where they need dramatic help.

I bring all this up because trading down keeps getting mentioned in the media. I think it’s actually getting a littler traction.

Let’s hope it doesn’t get traction with John Dorsey.