As the Cleveland Browns undertake the opening stages of their latest and greatest rebuilding project it is easy to see why a weary (and wary) fanbase is casting a cynical eye toward Berea.
We’ve all been down this road many times since 1999, after all, and always with the same disappointing results. The Browns have tried just about every approach available to NFL teams, including:
- The slow building of an expansion team, which pretty much ended at halftime of the team’s first regular season game in 1999.
- The one man has all the power model, which ended when head coach Butch Davis had a panic attack on the sidelines during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.