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The Browns, quite subtly put, are a sub-par football team.  Once one who spends their time and effort following said sub-par football team comes to terms with such a fact, the easier it will be to see beyond their ineptitude and look at the process of rebuilding a football team as an honorable task.  When delving into such a process one must realize that the Browns are, in fact, an expansion team, ten years young thus relatively new to the current NFL. Obviously they were unfairly forced into the predicament of having to start a team from scratch, but that does not make it untrue.   

The process of building a team, as frustrating as it may be, takes time. The organization needs to stand behind a staff and give them time to implement a system that meshes with the players on the team. This means that the organizational figureheads must be patient with the coaching staff, the General Manager, et al., that they brought in. The frustrating part is that the Browns have been in this predicament so many times over the past ten years that the rebuilding process has been a reoccurring problem that will not seem to go away.  If time truly does have the healing powers so many suspect that it does then patience becomes a necessity needed to endure the process. The same holds true when talking about the Cleveland Browns.  Eleven draft picks next year seems to be a decent place to start.  And optimism seems to be a decent trait to hold on to.

Tags: cleveland browns, eric mangini, nfl