So, let me get this right.
The Browns — in the person of owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam — are allowing General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski to spearhead the team’s search for quarterbacks, possibly as many as two in the NFL Draft, hopefully one of whom will turn into the franchise guy, and a seasoned, accomplished veteran in either free agency or a trade to hold down the job until the draftee is ready to play.
These are same men — Berry and Stefanski, that is — who orchestrated “the worst player acquisition in the 104-year history of the National Football League,” according to the writer of a story I saw the other day, with the Deshaun Watson fiasco.
And Haslam is trusting them — again?
Huh?!
Really?!
Are you serious?! Or is this just a bad dream? Or is it someone’s idea of a bad joke, and if so, then let’s be clear in stating that it isn’t one bit funny.
That those men, with all that, with the fact the Browns finished 3-14 last season when they were projected to be a Super Bowl contender, and with the fact the club has made the playoffs just twice, with but one postseason victory, in the five years they have worked together, still have jobs, not just with Cleveland but rather with any team in the NFL, is nothing short of mind-boggling.
I wouldn’t trust those guys to do anything in football, not even to sweep up the locker room. History tells us so.
Going forward, fans would be wise to take everything that Andrew Berry and Kevin Stefanski say about this quarterback search, or about anything, for that matter, and instead believe just the oppposite. That’s where the truth will lie.
Indeed, what the Browns are doing is not a plan of attack or a path to success but rather a tutorial on how to screw things up even worse, if that’s possible, and I don’t know that it is.
Steve King





