This is a story about … well, nothing.
The Browns have no wins, falling to 0-8 with their 33-16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday in London.
The Browns have no difference-makers at wide receiver.
The Browns have no offense overall. They scored 18 or fewer points for the seventh time this year. With the way football is played at all levels now, with all the rules set up for the scoring of a lot of points, there’s no way that a team can be competitive by averaging just under 14.9 points a game.
The Browns have no ability to convert on third down offensively, or to stop opponents from converting on third down.
The Browns have no ability on special teams. They have the worst special teams in the NFL, and the worst in their history. Rookie kicker Zane Gonzalez, the second of their three seventh- and final- — round picks in the 2017 NFL Draft, will almost certainly be cut after missing a field goal and an extra point against Minnesota.
The Browns got nothing on Sunday out of their top draft picks the last two years, defensive end Myles Garrett and wide receiver Corey Coleman. And it’s not the first time. Hardly. Both have “sidelined” as a major part of their NFL resumes thus far.
The Browns have no franchise quarterback, or at least one they can identify yet. If they find one, then they get markedly better immediately. But until they do so, they are stuck in the mud of mediocrity.
And the Browns have no game next weekend, as they will observe their bye. That it comes just five days after Halloween seems fitting in some bizarre way.
Now, will Hue Jackson have no job by then? Will he get fired in the next couple of days, along perhaps with Executive President of Football Operations Sashi Brown?
As big as all these other “nothings” and “no’s” are, the status of Jackson’s and Brown’s jobs are, for the time being, the biggest ones by far.
There’s no way of telling for sure. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has said – yes, you guessed it – nothing publicly recently.
But that could, and should, change.
Stay tuned.
