The general public may believe that Mike Pettine will not be back as the Cleveland Browns coach, but he's certainly not acting that way.
Pettine has talked confidently of his future for the past week or two, and made several references to 2016 as he assessed Sunday's loss to Kansas City.
"We were down 17-3 [and] given our circumstances [we] very easily could have packed it in and just sleepwalked through the second half and gone to the buses," Pettine said. "That’s not who we are.
"That’s why as a staff, I told [the players] just how proud we were of the effort, how we finished that game, competitive, the mental toughness, dealing with adversity, no quit, caring, all those things.