Want to feel good, Browns fans?
I mean, really, really good?
I think I have something that will do that.
You’ve heard me mention before the Saturday morning ESPN Radio show, “Dari and Mel,” hosted by Dari Nowkhah and Mel Kier Jr. The show, which can be heard in Northeast Ohio on Cleveland’s WKNR-AM (850), is the best several hours of radio all week. Nothing else is even close. I highly encourage you to check it out. It’s well worth your time.
The show, as you might expect with Kiper on it, focuses highly on football. And the Browns were the main focus of that … well, main focus last Saturday.
Kiper, who, I should remind you, is a Baltimore guy and a Ravens guy, was as high on the Browns as anyone has been in a long, long, long time.
Kiper referenced the 0-16 record last season and the 1-31 mark the last two years, admitting that it’s been about as bad for the Browns as it can get for any team. But he said they have an excellent opportunity to change that – dramatically so.
“The Browns have over $100 million to spend in free agency,” Kiper said. “They have two of the first four picks in the NFL Draft, and four of the top 35. They are set up to make a real turnaround.
“Now, in the past when the Browns have had a lot of cap room and a bunch of picks at the top of the draft, they haven’t done very well. But their general manager, John Dorsey, is a good football man. He knows what he’s doing.
“The AFC North is ripe for the taking going forward because of the age of the quarterbacks of the other teams. So if Dorsey can get it right – and that’s a big if, because, as I said, the Browns haven’t gotten it right in the past – but if they can get it right, then Cleveland, once they put everything together, could end up dominating this division for a period of three to eight years.”
That’s not one of you Browns fans saying that. That’s a national guy – a highly-respected, highly knowledgeable national guy – saying it.
Now, don’t you feel better – perhaps even very much better?