I have no problem getting the draft capital. My problem is the team did not have anyone ready to replace Flacco that was even a lateral move much less a down grade. This tread is about losing culture. That is what it is when Berry and Stefanski do not care about winning. The players stop caring. They see it. We see it. Flacco playing the way he did yesterday screams it. Do the Ravens and Steelers ever want to lose games? No! That is why they are traditional winning teams. They play the draft in the spot it falls to them. Their players play to an expected level of greatness or they move on. What the benching of Flacco and then trading him does to the locker room and replacing him with a joke of an NFL QB does it tells everyone on the team that our Coach and GM do not care so why should I.
Granted, he's a third round rookie so things are going to be rougher at least for his first few games... but I didn't see the giant step back one would expect going from a vet to a rookie. I think our offense looks just as anemic as it did with Flacco in there... we've just traded holding the ball and taking sacks for dink-dunk.
The Browns are losing because of the offense. The offense is the way it is (mostly) because of durability/age of the Oline and lack of effective talent at WR. Part of this is the lack of draft picks and cap space... but not all of it. I've said it before, I think it makes perfect sense to hold the main person responsible for the Watson debacle, but all indications is that that is Haslam. Not sure how you hold a meddling owner accountable... I'm sincerely all ears on that one.
