Definition of Browns gonna Brown

[Mother Grabber]

last play of the 1st half, only down 7. they give up a long pass play, which is no big deal because time runs out. they get flagged for a face mask, giving the Seahawks a free play to kick a FG with no time on the clock.

not enough facepalms for that play.

[Khyber53]

After seeing how two Browns players got arrested on Christmas morning, I did some thinking. The Browns suck so bad and have for so long, what would it take to completely blow up the team and start from fresh. Good and the bad, throw them all out onto the street, pay what's in their contracts and just take the dead money hit.

After some calculating on one of the sites that lists each team's contract/cap situations, I came to the conclusion that the Browns organization would be on the hook for right around $75 million and next year's salary cap is scheduled to be right around $150 million.

Could you scrap the entire front office, the coaching staff, the trainers and all of the players and just start over? Lay out contracts for $1 million to each person who makes the team and just sweep up every hanger on or guy who never got a chance and just start rebuilding. Get a good coach and GM and give them a solid, ironclad 5 year contract to rebuild a team. Make a commitment to the fans and say, "We're going to do this and we're going to do it right."

Yeah, the dead money and cap hits would pay out over the next two or three years, but every year they'd dig themselves out of the hole a bit more. Every year they would be finding diamonds in the rough, plus work on picking up quality, character players in the drafts. And every year, they'd be giving the folks of Cleveland nothing worse than they've already been getting.

I was in Cleveland this summer for a weekend. You know what? Nice place. Good, hard working folks. Great looking city with lots of stuff to do and a stadium that is really nice and situated right on the waterfront. Heck, send them Marty Hurney and Dom Capers... those guys could point them in the right direction.