Usually, after a disappointing season that ends with a top 5 draft pick, the NFL team cleans house. Not the Browns.
It wasn’t just a losing season, it was an ugly season
The season was more than just disappointing. Sometimes in this league, whether it’s injuries piling up or lack of roster talent, it’s just not your year. For the Cleveland Browns, this season was the worst in years. In terms of record, unless Cleveland wins out, they will post their worst record since 2017. That was of course the infamous winless season, so the bar couldn’t be lower.
Five of their 11 losses this season have been against teams with a losing record, so they aren’t even winning the games they are supposed to. Most of their losses have been out of reach too, as seven of them were lost by two scores or more. To describe these losses as “ugly” simply doesn’t do it justice, so it’s not as simple as needing to close out games.
The offense is completely broken
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. When was the last time you saw a NFL team fall from a top 10 scoring offense to 30th in points the following year? In the offseason, Kevin Stefanski decided to make coaching changes. He hired offensive line coach Andy Dickerson, offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey, and running backs coach Duce Staley.
These changes proved to be faulty as the Browns currently average their worst yards per carry since 2014 and are the worst 3rd down team in the NFL, converting only 28.6% of the time. The Browns gave Stefanski the power to tweak his offensive staff and the team got worse despite the same core roster pieces on offense.
After these faulty changes, how can we be confident he can make the changes necessary to improve?
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