The Browns did a lot – a whole lot – to get here, to get where they’re at today.

Some of it was cool, good and enjoyable, but most of it arrived after they had endured considerable pain.

Indeed, coming off an 0-16 season and a two-year record of 1-31, making the Browns a national laughingstock, and consummating enough big-time tradedowns in the NFL Draft to garner a king’s ransom worth of top-shelf picks, was no easy journey.

Now it is time to take advantage of this rare opportunity of having four picks in the top 35. That’s unbelievable, and unprecedented in Browns history – possibly even NFL history.

With that, then, what if the Browns did nothing else? What if they just stayed put – with no more trades – and took the best quarterback, in their eyes, at No. 1 overall, Bradley Chubb or Saquon Barkley at No. 4 and the two best available players at No. 33 and 35? What would you think about all that?

I would love it. I would absolutely love it.

I hope the Browns also love it enough to do it.

If they want to package some picks to move up, I would be up for that. That would be even better, really.

But I don’t want any more tradedowns. Please, no more bailing out of a pick to add more picks this year or next year or the year after.

The Browns have worked so hard – sacrificed so much – to get to this point. By continuing to pass up addressing the needs of today to address the needs of tomorrow or two tomorrows from now, would turn my stomach.

I want fewer players who are of higher quality rather than more players of lesser quality. I want the kind of guys you should be able to select at 1, 4, 33 and 35. Those are the difference-makers, and goodness knows the Browns need difference-makers.

So if the Browns want to get better – and begin making a difference in the NFL again – they need to do less. Uh, make that nothing. Less is more. And nothing is even more.