BEREA, Ohio -- The upstart Browns will kick off training camp Thursday with expectations unseen in Cleveland in decades.
Yet their principal leadership, in general manager John Dorsey and head coach Freddie Kitchens, is embracing those enormous expectations.
“I want everybody to understand this: our goal here with the Cleveland Browns, as long as I'm here, will always be to win the Super Bowl,” Kitchens said Wednesday, when asked if the expectations might be too much for a franchise with the longest playoff drought in the NFL. “Just know and make it a given that that’s what I believe to my core, is to win the Super Bowl.