In one final indignation to former Browns General Manager Ray Farmer, who deserves all the indignations, final and otherwise, that he could possibly get, let us examine the situation now.

Farmer was fired by the Browns just hours after the end of the regular season for doing a horrific job of player procurement overall and, specifically, blowing a combined total of four first-round picks in the NFL Draft in 2014 and ’15.

Brian Hoyer, the only quarterback in the expansion-era history of the Browns to have a winning record as a starter, and the guy who was allowed to walk last offseason by Farmer and wasn’t even offered a free-agent contract, will be starting for the South Division champion Houston Texans (9-7) when they host the Kansas City Chiefs (11-5) at 4:35 p.m. Saturday in the AFC wild-card round of the playoffs. Farmer had no interest in Hoyer because he refused to be a mentor for the quarterback the Browns – and Farmer — drafted at No. 22 overall in 2014, Johnny Manziel.

Manziel, the guy around whom Farmer hung his reputation and tried to build the Cleveland offense, played little, with just moderate success, in 2015 before being lost for the season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers with concussion symptoms. He cared so much about his career and his teammates, and he cared so much about the concussion protocol into which he was placed, that he partied last Sunday in Las Vegas. With continued poor off-the-field issues he refuses to address, he is slowly but surely pushing himself not just out of Cleveland, but out of the NFL overall.

Josh McCown, the free-agent quarterback the Browns signed last offseason to replace Hoyer as Manziel’s mentor, kept doing in 2015 what he has always done in his long NFL career, and that is to lose games at a frantic rate. That is, until he was shelved for the season with a shoulder injury.

So Farmer – with all his personnel fiascos, his ignorance and stubbornness, and his pompous, ego-driven acts — is gone, Manziel and McCown weren’t even dressed for the season finale and Hoyer is in the playoffs as a starter for a division champion.

Hmmm.

All along, we said here, and so did nearly everyone else, that Farmer should go, that Hoyer should stay and shouldn’t have been penalized for refusing to be Manziel’s baby-sitter because he wasn’t a franchise quarterback, and that McCown wasn’t worthy of starting – unless, of course, your aim is to lose games.

And we – along with all the others who agreed with us – were right on all counts, and Farmer was wrong on all counts. Dead wrong. As wrong as wrong can be.

We just wanted to point that out one last time to Farmer, who always thought he was the smartest guy in the room. And when you think you’re always the smartest guy in the room, you almost always prove just the opposite. Farmer did just that – completely and unquestionably so.

Now the Browns are charged with fixing all the damage that Farmer did. It’s such a gargantuan task that they won’t have time to watch Hoyer, a Cleveland native who grew up rooting for the Browns and wanting to play for them, and deserved so much better than he got from his hometown team, perform in the playoffs.

Thanks, Ray Farmer. Thanks a lot.