It’s not worse for the Browns

IT’S NOT WORSE FOR THE BROWNS, BUT JUST THE SAME

By STEVE KING

Here’s a story, or rather an analogy, to hopefully finally put to rest an irritating, and irrational, myth.

Let’s say, for instance, that it is just been announced, well before the halfway point of September, that Christmas and the holiday season has been moved up two whole months, to Oct. 25, instead of Dec. 25.

Arghhhhh!!!!!

Among all those people, and entities, who are beside themselves – if not outright having panic attacks — are retailers, for the most profitable part of their year – by far – has been shortened by 60 days. There are suddenly that many fewer shopping days.

Every retailer has, obviously, been greatly affected – in a tremendously negative way – by this. None of them is going to have the shopping season they expected to have, or usually have. They just aren’t. It’s not humanely – or mathematically — possible. Common sense tells you that.

It is speculated by many that the new retailers, the ones who are just getting started, will be especially awful because they haven’t had enough time to institute all their new polices, ideas and modes of doing business. While it is indeed true that they haven’t had enough time, common sense – again — tells you that the degree to which they are trailing the best retailers is exactly the same as it was when Christmas was still slated for Dec. 25. It hasn’t changed. All retailers – the good ones, bad ones and average ones — have been hurt to the same degree because of that lack of time.

That brings us to the NFL, and your Cleveland Browns. It has been said over and over and over again by some “experts” in some corners that they will be particularly awful, worse than they otherwise would have been, because they have a new head coach and coaching staff who, because of the practice time lost due to the coronavirus pandemic, have had much less time – not nearly enough time, really – to implement their offensive, defensive and special teams schemes.

But the truth of the matter is that the entire NFL is – yes, even the best teams are – being dumbed down, so to speak, by the reduced time to get ready. So, the Browns are no further behind the teams that are supposedly ahead of them than they already were.

It would be different if the Browns were the only team hurt by the pandemic, but that’s simply not the case.

So don’t panic, because I can assure you that the Browns aren’t.

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