Saying that a team in the NFL “could be good” is not difficult. The league’s salary cap and draft process make it generally easy for a team to go from bad to decent quickly, and also attempt to keep teams from forming long-term dynasties. The Cleveland Browns have been the exception to the rule since “The Return” in 1999. Their current stretch under HC Kevin Stefanski and GM Andrew Berry is the best they’ve had in their quarter-century run in their current form.

It isn’t good enough and hasn’t been good enough.

In many ways, it all goes back to the QB Deshaun Watson trade. Dealing away all of those draft picks and paying all of that guaranteed money not only brought the Browns a bad quarterback, but it also significantly limited the team’s ability to add cheap talent (in the NFL draft) o

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