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Cleveland Browns bucking trend to combat losing ways

Who knew?

Turns out it wasn’t Alex Mack’s busted leg, Brian Hoyer’s interception blizzard, Johnny Manziel’s meltdown, Billy Cundiff’s shanks or even Textgate.

It took The Wall Street Journal and a PR campaign to uncover the reason why last year’s Cleveland Browns wasted a promising 7-4 start and turned it into another dismal last place AFC North finish. Our beloved Brownies wrote coaching notes by hand. (Wonder if general manager Ray Farmer would have gotten four games for paper airplaning, instead of texting, those messages to the sidelines?)

Talk about your throwback franchises – the Browns are turning back the clock on the digital revolution by reverting to paper and pencils.