If you’re a Browns fan – or a Browns player, coach, scout or a member of the front office – you’ve got to like the team’s new starting quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, formerly of the Buffalo Bills.

You’ve got to like him, his attitude, his courage, his bravado, his optimism, his leadership capabilities and his communication skills, all of which are needed to play quarterback.

All those assets – and more – were on display on Thursday as Taylor, who was acquired in a trade a week ago, met the Cleveland media for the first time during a press conference at Browns Headquarters.

Without batting an eye, Taylor, who last season helped lead the Bills to the playoffs for the first time in 17 years, proclaimed that he wants to “bridge this team to a Super Bowl.”

Nothing like throwing the gauntlet down and making s bold statement right off the bat.

Taylor was referring, of course, to the label he has of being merely the bridge quarterback to get the Browns to the start of the on-field career of the franchise quarterback they hope to take at the top of the NFL Draft in about six weeks.

Taylor is excited to be here, and, according to new General Manager John Dorsey, who also addressed the Cleveland media on Thursday, the Browns are excited to have him here.

What else would you expect both sides to say? That’s how all these relationships between a new quarterback and his new team start. They tend to disintegrate down the road, but that’s another story for another time.

It’s just talk and the start of the regular season is still light years away, but it’s good nonetheless to hear the starting quarterback say hopeful things about how he wants to bolster a team that hasn’t had a winning record since Joe Thomas was a rookie. Thomas, of course, retired on Wednesday after sending 11 years with the Browns.

That tells you everything you need to know.

Just like Tyrod Taylor told us – so starved for a winner – everything we wanted to hear, especially in mid-March.