The biggest distraction in Browns history
Football coaches hate distractions and turnovers the most.
They are indeed the bane of a coach’s existence.
There are no turnovers yet – they will inevitably come once the season begins in a little more than a month – but the distractions are here for your Cleveland Browns.
Man, oh, man, are they are here. In fact, this is already – gee, it isn’t even close – the most distraction-filled training camp the Browns have ever had going all the way back to 1946.
The distractions all share the same name. It’s Deshaun Watson.
The Gamble — the acquisition of the troubled quarterback and navigating their way through the cesspool of ugly issues surrounding him in hopes that he can someday actually take the field for them in a game that counts in the standings – is a total and unmitigated mess legally, perceptually and physically. The Browns are in the headlines every day for all the wrong reasons.
The Browns – the players, that is – all say they’re not focused at all on the Watson situation and who is going to play quarterback for them.
Ha, ha!! That’s funny!
And it’s a big lie.
Look, they have to say that. They can’t admit the truth that this steady swirl of a Terminal Tower-sized controversy is on their minds all the time. It has to be. These guys are human.
If it doesn’t end soon – there is no end in sight, by the way – it’s going to eat the Browns alive and spit them out, ruining their season.
It is the biggest distraction in Browns history.
And head coach Kevin Stefanski knows it.
Steve King
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