Cleveland Browns: Guide for the next Front Office

Finding Stability..

Jimmy Haslam promised not to “blow things up” at the end of this season and he went against his word. Some might find it justified, but others wonder if there’s truly any credibility behind his words. It’s hard to trust a guy who essentially endorsed a losing season for his staff and then fires them when it happens. If the Browns want to be a credible organization they need to stop changing their staff every other season.

The new staff should be allowed three seasons no matter what they encounter and Haslam needs to stick by the contracts handed out. It’s been too long since a coach was able to play out his contract in Cleveland. In fact, none of the coaches that have been hired since 1999 have ever played out their contract. It’s time. With the amount of love that this Cleveland Browns team needs it’s hard to expect them to just turn it around in one or two seasons. Sometimes it takes that third season for everything to click.

With Johnny Manziel looking like he’s not the quarterback of the future in Cleveland, it’ll be up to the next quarterback (likely a rookie) to be in charge of getting this team on the right track. The defense may find themselves in a new scheme which means guys may end up being traded away and on top of all that everybody has to learn a new system, again. This team is going to need as much time as they can get and right now three years seems like it could be the magic number. Maybe its two, maybe its four but there needs to be enough time given for progress to be shown and for this team to take the next step. That won’t happen so long as this team is on a carousel of coaches and general managers.