Editor's note: Tony Grossi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN 850 WKNR.
Out of left field: The Browns put a lawyer in charge of football operations and named a baseball analytics expert to a high-level football position.
Only a team whose record is so bad as the Browns’ can these moves be viewed as progressive, intriguing, even fascinating.
The alternative is more misguided coaching and GM hires and criminally negligent player acquisitions.
In other words, why not? Could it get any worse?
Don’t answer that.
I see the unconventional restructuring of the Browns’ football operation, which was conceived by president Alec Scheiner and sold to owner Jimmy Haslam, as bizarre at best and insane at worst.