What if the Browns fall one win short of making it to the AFC playoffs this year?

Are you going to look to the lidd at Pittsburgh as the reason why? Perhaps, because the Browns literally gave that game away. But that’s part of football, and the Browns played hard, and had a good offensive plan and a good defensive plan, but they just made too many mistakes on offense.

Instead, I would pinpoint as the reason the loss to the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday because they were prepared so poorly on offense by head coach Kevin Stefanski that they really had no chance. It was pathetic. It reminded me of some of those games way back at the beginning of the expansion era when the Browns didn’t have much of an offense and really weren’t a threat to score. They really weren’t a threat to score against Baltimore. The plan was bad, and the preparation was bad.

Again, that’s inexcusable not from a players’ standpoint but from a coaching standpoint, and it falls at the feet of Stefanski, and for that matter, also General Manager Andrew Berry. Berry was the mastermind who decided the Browns could do without Joshua Dobbs as the backup quarterback. Well, guess what? They can’t. And everybody saw it last Sunday.

This is the kind of stuff you stew about when you play poorly and you have a bye the following week, so in essence, you have most of two weeks to just sit and think about all the things that aren’t going well. And right now, at least from the last game, that’s the efforts, or lack thereof, Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry.

By Steve King