We don’t need the autopsy this time. We don’t need a scalpel and forensics to figure out where it all went wrong.
Kevin Stefanski might be in his final days as the Cleveland Browns head coach because of the Deshaun Watson trade and all of the catastrophes that followed. The Watson trade was clearly the pivot point for this franchise in every way possible. That Watson will still be here, and Stefanski could be gone, is disgraceful, but that’s the perfect word to summarize the Browns over the last 25 years.
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With no good quarterbacks on the roster, the number of rookies soaring into the teens and enough dead weight on the cap sheet to sink the organization to the bottom of Lake Erie, this season was always going to be messy. But there comes a point where the infection overtakes the body. We just might be there.
I still believe Stefanski is a good coach stuck in a bad situation, but he hasn’t exactly helped himself by pulling the team out of the mud, either.
What transpired at the start of Sunday’s game at the Chicago Bears was the type of
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