The thought of J.J. Watt being a Brown…

By STEVE KING
When I think about the Browns lately, I don’t think of a lot of the things, and people, I had been thinking about since the season ended.
I don’t think about emerging quarterback Baker Mayfield and what he may be able to do over the next several seasons.
Nor do I think about NFL Coach of the Year Kevin Stefanski and what a cool, calm, level-headed leader he is, and how lucky the Browns are to have him.
Or the other half of the team’s braintrust, Executive Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager Andrew Berry, and how closely — and well — they work together, and how lucky the Browns are to have him as well.
Or the offensive and its coach, Bill Callahan, and the fact that all good teams have good lines and good line coaches.
Or any of a number of other things.
Rather, I think about what it would be like if the Browns were able to sign ultra-talented street free-agent defensive end J.J. Watt, and pair him with the other end, young Myles Garrett. Bookend ends like that would be outta sight. That alone would take a challenged — I am trying to be nice — defense and ramp it up a bunch of notches. A quarterback can’t find holes in the leaky back seven of the defense if he’s running for his life and laying on his back. And that alone, while certainly not guaranteeing anything (there are no guarantees in this game), would increase — dramatically — the chances of the Browns to make it to the Super Bowl for the first time. 
The thought of all that makes me giddy. It really, truly does.
The other stuff can wait. It will still be there after the Watt situation has been determined.
And for that matter, it’s not often, especially in these pandemic times, that you have a chance to be giddy.