Here we go again.
The 0-12 Browns have four games left, and the talk is already about what they’re going to do in the 2017 NFL Draft.
Aw, come, who are we kidding? The focus has been on the draft since October, and perhaps even by the end of September after it was determined that the season was going to be exactly what everybody thought it would be – a total disaster in which rebuilding the team from the ground up, and not necessarily winning, was the focus.
The Browns will almost certainly have the No. 1 overall pick, and they will have a number of other high selections as well. They need a quarterback – still, ever since the beginning of the expansion era in 1999 — but there probably won’t be one worth taking anywhere near the top of the draft.
So, then, the Browns will need to take the best available player at No. 1 – it doesn’t matter where he plays, because they need help at every position – and they will need to figure who, and where, to take their quarterback. The first part is easy. The second part? Not so much.
And until they get the second part right – until they find that quarterback – the big picture of the club is not going to change a whole lot. There will be a ceiling on just how good the Browns will get.
The ceiling, or the situation, better known as a predicament, never seems to change.
So stay tuned.
Once again.
Still.
