3-13.

7-9.

4-12.

5-11.

4-12.

5-11.

5-11.

4-12.

Counting backward from 2015 to ’08, those are the Browns’ records for each year.

The Browns have suffered through eight consecutive seasons, easily a franchise record.

Their combined record during that time is 37-91.

Their combined winning percentage during that time is .289.

That means the Browns have won 28.9 percent of their games.

That means that for every 10 games the Browns have played, they have won three. That’s three, as in one more than two and one less than four.

In every one of those seasons, the Browns used the traditional way to build a team, promoting traditional football men with traditional resumes to traditional positions within a traditional framework within a traditional personnel department.

The numbers – whether you use analytics or just plain ol’ public-school math – clearly indicate, without any shadow of a doubt, that this was an experiment in futility. It was an abysmal failure. It was an unmitigated disaster. Someone would have had to work incredibly hard to do worse. It’s almost realistically impossible.

The Browns have had a combined total of four first-round choices the last two years in the NFL Draft. One player partied his way off the team and has a better chance of landing in jail than he does of landing on another team’s roster. Another player is stuck so far down on the end of the bench that he needs binoculars to see the field. Two other players might someday be stars – if they play in the Arena League.

The Browns gave $9 million in guaranteed money over two years to a free-agent wide receiver who didn’t play enough last season to get his uniform dirty – that is, in the few times that he did suit up. He was cut recently and has as much chance to be signed by another team as the late Art Modell has of ever having a statue erected in his honor outside FirstEnergy Stadium.

Ray Farmer was the worst general manager in team history, and Mike Pettine was arguably the worst head coach ever. And that’s saying something considering that Pat Shurmur and Eric Mangini have coached the team in recent seasons, and Mike Lombardi has served as GM.

This isn’t as much conjecture and opinion as it is an undeniable fact.

With all that having been said, then, why all the whining and complaining about the Browns’ decision to hire a new regime to try to rebuild the team a whole new way?

It may work, or it may not. That remains to be seen.

But doesn’t it make more sense to at least attempt this than to try the same old failed way – the one that has not worked for the Browns for nearly a decade?