Why Should We Believe in the Browns?

I hope you didn’t click this link hoping to receive an actual solution. There have been countless regimes and much smarter football minds than mine that have attempted to solve the Cleveland football conundrum. The writers and analysts that claim to have the golden answer are all – to be completely honest with you – just guessing.

Sure we can all point out the Browns flaws. It doesn’t take a football guru to see that we need to play better defense, run the ball better and not shoot ourselves in the foot with bonehead, ill-timed penalties.

Well hell, for the sake of not wasting your time let me see if I can carve out a genuine-if-not-just-feasible answer.

Start with the obvious questions – is it time to move on from this ‘regime’? Half the people in the room will say we should keep Mike Pettine to establish continuity. The other half will say cut the rope, blow the whole thing up and start fresh again in the spring. I can’t imagine anyone wants to see Ray Farmer here beyond the conclusion of this season.

Then there are the players. Who on this roster can we count on to actually complete their sole purpose on this team? If it isn’t about winning, then what is it about?

The eight home games a year will always sellout. The recent design changes in the uniform will keep fans buying the apparel no matter how many times a year the Browns actually win.

So if we’re going to keep spending money regardless of the product on the field, where is the incentive for upper management to make real changes?

Maybe we should believe in the Browns because ‘worst to first’ really happens in sports, but maybe it just isn’t our turn. Yet.
Or maybe we should believe because our history informs us that we were dominate at one point, and we all know how ‘history repeats itself’.

More questions. Unfortunately that’s where I am with my favorite sports franchise.

So, why do you believe in the Browns?

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