It’s one thing for an NFL team to have a losing record.

But it’s another thing entirely for the number of those losses to reach into the double-digits.

And that’s where the Browns are as they fell to 3-10 following Sunday’s 27-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

This is not a perfect 10, to be sure. This is humiliating, embarrassing and unacceptable. And it can, and will, get worse, for there are still four games left, beginning with Sunday’s visit to Huntington Bank Field by the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, who are at the opposite end of the spectrum at 12-1. Perhaps you’ve heard of them. Last Sunday, as the Browns were officially eliminated from postseason consideration, the Chiefs clinched their ninth consecutive AFC West crown with a last-play 19–17 win over the Los Angeles Chargers.

To make matters even worse, the Browns have now suffered a double-digit number of defeats in two of the last three seasons. They were 7-10 in 2022.

This is another reason — and perhaps the most important reason because the NFL is a bottom-line business and, like Bill Parcells always used to say, “You are what your record says you are” — why I’m not crazy about the combination of General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski.

Steve King