Cleveland Browns’ record since returning to Cleveland

saint_drago said
We have officially reached the "At Least We Aren't the Browns!" point of the season. Yeah, we aren't the Browns so that we have that going for us. And we still have 2009. We won a Super Bowl and so many teams haven't. They can't take that away from us.

I'm okay with the Saints being a not so great football team. I've been expecting this for years. I figured as soon as Drew retired things would go back to normal. What I didn't expect is for the front office to take such an inexplicable route to irrelevance. I wish they would've become a bad to mediocre football team the normal way. Instead we have this Frankenstein's monster roster of all in, yolo madness. It's going to take years to clean this up but here's the best part, the people in charge of righting the ship are the same people who decided to go all in with Jameis Winston after trying to move heaven and earth to trade for Deshaun Watson. The same people who bent over backwards to draft Chris Olave and Trevor Penning. Unless that was all DA's idea. At least he's gone.

When Brady left and the Patriots struggled, a lot of people questioned the effectiveness of Belichick and if it really was all Brady. Starting to think the opposite for Payton. Not to take anything away from Drew, but a lot of front office decisions were made or influenced by Payton during his tenure here. I think making the NFCCG the first year gave him the credit to do what he wanted. We hit lightning in a bottle with him and Drew. Now its back to the regularly scheduled program. Drew and Payton were the exception to the norm. Loomis has been here since 2000. 2000-2005 looks eerily familiar to the last few years since Drew and Payton left. Big plays, some entertaining football, flirting with playoffs but never making it, a few fan favorite players, but never in a position where the team is legitimately competing for a title.

I think a new approach from the top down is needed. I was critical of Gayle before firing Allen, but she's shown signs of taking it seriously and hopefully can see and deal with the root of this franchise's problems because whats happening now is becoming futile.