Browns General Manager John Dorsey and head coach Hue Jackson are doing exactly what they need to be doing, saying exactly what they need to be saying, at the NFL Combine this week in Indianapolis.

And that’s good – very, very good – to hear from a team that, in this nightmarish expansion era, has often done and said exactly the wrong thing, causing all kinds of problems.

Let’s go with Dorsey first. Here’s what he said about the possibility of him trading out of the Browns’ picks at No. 1 and/or No. 4 overall in the NFL Draft:

“There’s a lot of things I could do at No. 1, and not just get a quarterback. My door is wide open. If somebody wants to come up and talk to me about a trade, I’m willing to trade. But also, I’m going to do what’s best for this organization.”

Translated from GM-speak into real person-speak, here’s what Dorsey is saying, “Look, I’m not going to sit here in these first few days of March, about two months before the draft, and show all my cards – or any of my cards, really – at this point. Are you kidding? The draft, especially the top of it, which is where we’re at and what we’re talking about, is a huge-stakes poker game in which you hold your cards close to your vest. I am willing to look at anything and everything – why wouldn’t I? – but unless some team is willing to give me its first-round draft picks for, say, the next 10 years, I feel pretty good about the possibility that I’m going to plant my feet and keep those picks.

“Why? In case y’all haven’t noticed, we’ve won exactly one game over the last two seasons, so we need great young players right now, not next year, the year after that or some other year down the road.”

As for Jackson, he said that once free agency starts, the Browns will move quickly to secure a competent free-agent quarterback to play this season, even if the club selects a quarterback at the top of the draft. He wants the young guy to stand on the sideline and learn from watching the veteran play. He doesn’t want to feed the rookie to the lions, so to speak. It almost always doesn’t end well when a rookie plays before he’s ready, and there’s virtually no chance that a rookie can be ready – really, truly ready – in his first season. The job is just too big, too tough, for that.