Cleveland actually has a decent, respectable roster and has some good pieces in place to become a halfway-decent, competitive team a lot sooner than lets say Raiders or the Jets. A smart, instinctive up-and-coming HC with a very good, loaded draft next year with a proven veteran QB could actually make Las Vegas a 8-9/9-8 win team again like they were in 2023.
Kevin Stefanski has probably been the Browns best HC since they essentially returned as a expansion franchise in all but name in 1999. The two biggest, most glaring problems facing Cleveland is an woefully stupid, clueless FO and ownership who gave a good QB with a questionable background a guaranteed contract that upended the NFL's power dynamic for a while due to their desperate stupidity and the fact that Cleveland plays in one of the NFL's toughest, hardest divisions since the old, ultra-tough NFC West from 1970-2001. If Cleveland was in the AFC South, they'd probably be 7-8 or 6-9 right now.
Joe Burrow is a great, transcendent QB whose having a NFL MVP-CALIBER season statistically with a team that at best, might finish at 9-8 for the second, consecutive season. That magical SB run in 2021 seems quite some time ago and Burrow has to be wondering if he wants to continue in the great tradition of past good or great Bengals QB's like Ken Anderson, Boomer Easiason, Carson Palmer, and Andy Dalton who had great statistical careers (especially Ken Anderson, IMHO, a HOFer) but due to inept, bad FO decisions and frankly, incompetent cheap ownership like Mike Brown, rarely built great supporting casts like Pittsburgh and Baltimore did.
If I'm Joe Burrow, no matter if Zac Taylor stays for a few more seasons and leads you to a couple one-and-done WC losses or some relative nobody cheap-arse Mike Brown hires because he doesn't want to pay good money for a proven HC or coordinator, do I want to stay in Cincy my entire career busting my arse for a franchise that doesn't meet me even 25% of the way with sheetty draft picks and terrible FA signings? Just like all the others, do I want to take that chance or do I try and sign with a franchise that does have a smart owner with a already-good roster like Seattle or San Francisco?