For decades now, the Cleveland Browns have been the laughingstock of the AFC North. Even in the past couple of years when they haven’t been finishing dead last in the division, they have been receiving the lion’s share of the derision.
So much of this has been tied to the manner in which, in one fashion or another, at one level or another, the franchise has conducted or presented itself. They allowed themselves to be portrayed as a Cinderella team in 2019, and it backfired spectacularly when they finished with a worse record (6-10) than they had the year before (7-8-1).