Will the Browns win a game this season?
With the team at 0-10 as it gets ready to host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday at First Energy Stadium, it’s a question everyone is asking.
Indeed, will the Browns beat anyone this year – except themselves with costly mistakes each week – as they try to avoid what the Detroit Lions did in 2008 by going 0-16.
I get that. I fully get that. It’s not hard to understand why there’s so much focus on that question..
In almost every respect, the NFL is all about winning. All pro sports are. The more a team wins, the better its season.
Losing? Not cool. The fans get mad, and people’s jobs are in jeopardy.
But as important, and popular, as that question is – and it’s certainly all that and then some – it’s not the biggest question facing the Browns now, and especially going forward.
To be sure, the most critical question for the Browns is: When will they find their franchise quarterback? That question trumps everything. It’s not even close.
For the only way the Browns are going to escape this purgatory into which they’ve put themselves for almost all of the expansion era, is to get a big-time quarterback. The road to recovery starts there and stays there, at the most important position in team sports.
This season will soon be over – thankfully. But the ugliness of its impact will not begin to go away until the Browns find that quarterback.
In fact, if the Browns don’t get their man in the 2017 NFL Draft, then next season – and the season after that and the one following that and so on and so forth – are destined to be miserable, too.
So while trying to figure out if the Browns will win a game this season is trendy, it’s just temporary. No matter how many games they win this year, the search for a quarterback will remain.
