Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has informed season ticket holders that the organization is
being patient with their search for the correct replacement at head coach for the team. Patience is something fans of Cleveland sports know as well as any group in American professional sports. At what point, however, does patience spin into a taste of insanity?
Patience assumes that the positive outcome is on the horizon because the proper steps for success have been taken. Asking for patience in the midst of the same failed approach is more like a guise to cover up the insanity atop the organization. Cleveland
hasn't been in the playoffs since 2002, and before that 1994. They have
three winning seasons in the past twenty years (if you count the
pre-Baltimore Ravens years as belonging to the Browns). But history can be overcome if you're willing to find new methods --
if.
If there is any saving grace it's in the ten draft picks (including two first-rounders) that the Browns have for
this year's draft. If the past tells us anything, Cleveland needs a fresh set of eyes in the draft room or coaches with the ability to pull out the
talent expected of first-round picks. If the Browns could get a hold of a sure-fire star at quarterback it might be enough to put them over the top. But then again, there are
no guarantees they would keep one if they did.
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Sports Headlines for January 15, 2014