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Morning kickoff: Browns coaching change could spur contract talks with potential free agents

Editor's note: Tony Grossi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN 850 WKNR.

Take care of your own: The new regime of the Browns can change the culture of the organization without waiting for the draft or coach Hue Jackson’s first offseason program.

It can do something previous regimes have stupidly failed to do -- re-sign its best unrestricted free agents.

Retaining your own free agents is one of the tenets of prudent team-building. The Browns never do this because they are always changing regimes. The new regimes callously dismiss eligible free agents as “failed” draft picks of their predecessors or misfits in their new “systems.