The Cleveland Browns were just a three-win team last year. We all know this. Because the franchise was one of the three worst NFL teams with identical 3-14-0 records, it becomes an assumption that they won’t flip the following season and suddenly become a playoff club, no matter how positive we as fans become.

Or speak it into existence.

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Few NFL teams that finished the previous season at the very bottom of the standings end up in the postseason the following year. Yes, it has happened. The 1997 Arizona Cardinals finished 4-12-0 and then went 9-7-0 the following year and captured a Wild Card spot.

However, this rarely happens, and the odds are against the act of going from worst to first. Usually, it takes a few years to weed out the bad

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