Paul DePodesta as been the Cleveland Browns chief strategy officer for a little more than a year now, but outside of the occasional press conference, he has mostly stayed in the shadows.
But that all changed today as he was the main spotlight of Peter King’s weekly Monday Morning Quarterback column.
King spent 40 minutes at the annual league meetings talking with DePodesta and came away with some nuggets of information that every Browns fan should read.
The biggest takeaway, perhaps, is that once DePodesta, executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown and head coach Hue Jackson took over, they quickly realized that fixing a team that been broken since 1999 was not going to be a easy task:
“Again, that was a situation that we felt like we really do need to rebuild the foundation of this organization, and it is almost like redoing a house—you need to rip down all the walls and get it down to the studs.