There is no fathomable way to sugarcoat a 1-15 season at any level of sport, let alone for a team in the NFL, a league with arguably the most parity of any major professional sport in the U.S. and a draft format that gives teams better odds for quick turnarounds.
2016 was the indisputable worst year of Cleveland Browns football since the team first took the field 60 years ago under the man for whom the franchise was named, Paul Brown.
Even compared to the insufferable 18 previous years of the “new” Cleveland Browns franchise since the team returned in 1999, 2016 was unprecedented.