Cleveland Browns are acting like

[welch]

I'm rooting for the Browns every game. We had "Off the floor in '64"...for young people, that was 1964, and the Nats, managed by Gil Hodges, improved. The Browns have been more hopeless than the first years of the Expansion Senators.

[SkinsJock]

Cleveland is showing how quickly you can turn things around when you have the right people managing things

having a lot of top picks on your roster does not guarantee success on the field - having a good plan and the right staff is just as important

[welch]

https://www.cleveland.com/expo/sports/e ... r-the.html

[welch]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2 ... df3439056d

Believe it or not, Baker Mayfield and the Browns are somehow chasing a playoff berth

By Mark Maske
December 16 at 1:35 AM

It would have been plenty for the Cleveland Browns to have reached respectable status this season. They are, after all, the Browns, who have stumbled and bumbled their way through so much of their franchise history and who took the term laughingstock to new depths by posting a combined record of 1-31 over the previous two seasons.

But all of that was before Baker Mayfield arrived, and all Mayfield has changed for the Browns is everything. It is mid-December and these Browns — Mayfield’s Browns — are talking about playoff possibilities, not jockeying for the top overall pick in the NFL draft. These Browns have zoomed past respectable and are honest-to-goodness postseason contenders who will be playing a meaningful Week 16 game, thanks to Saturday night’s 17-16 triumph in Denver.

“We’re resilient right now,” Mayfield told the NFL Network after the game. “We’ve got a lot of confidence. Yeah, absolutely, it was not our best game whatsoever. It started with myself. We didn’t do everything right at all, a couple turnovers. We’ve just got to take care of the ball when we’re on the road. But the most important thing is finding a way to win, scrapping it out all the way until the clock hits zero.”

That’s exactly what the Browns did, thwarting the Broncos’ final drive toward a possible game-winning field goal attempt on a fourth-down sack by safety Jabrill Peppers. That ended a game that featured mistakes by both quarterbacks and questionable late-game tactics by both coaches.

The Browns weren’t all that concerned about aesthetics, however. They improved to 6-7-1. They’re 4-2 since firing Hue Jackson as their coach and promoting Gregg Williams from defensive coordinator to interim head coach, and reaching the playoffs is not out of the question.

[welch]

A blunder. Browns choose OC Freddie Kitchens as HC, relieve Gregg Williams of all duties. Gregg W. to leave team.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/01/did-br ... g-williams

[SkinsJock]

A blunder. Browns choose OC Freddie Kitchens as HC, relieve Gregg Williams of all duties. Gregg W. to leave team.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/01/did-br ... g-williams

I also like Gregg Williams - just goes to show how important it is to have good management - the Browns have turned things around - big time