J/C

Just for myself I judge Stefanski on his complete body of work as a HC for the Browns. I take into account injuries and challenges he and the team have faced along the way- and in many cases Stefanski has done well when facing adversity, nothing more obvious than the Covid impacted season, his best year as HC.

But with that said - and this is true of other managers across multiple sports, soccer being one that I know well - some managers can absolutely do more with less and can face obsticles and overcome a lack of talent and get the most out of those situations.... while at the same time those same managers can struggle to do well with talent laden teams, and finding ways to win and win consistently to challenge for titles and championships with teams that are built to do so. I've seen many managers in soccer specifically that can keep a title challenging team in the hunt and maintain a winning edge - but fail miserably in that first situation when given a team facing adversity and a lack of talent. If your a mid-bottom tier team you want the manager that does more with less - If your team is built to be a title challenger you want the other guy. Sometimes they can be the same guy - but not always.

I'd say Belichick has shown he can handle both situations over the long haul - I've not seen NE play the last two seasons to comment on whether he's lost it.

I've not seen - and neither has any Browns fan seen - Stefanski do enough consistently to be labeled a good/great HC. He's done some things really well, and he's done some of them consistently. He's also shown a few flawed tendancies and shown that despite talking about change and improvement, he's also done these consistently even in 2023. I reached a tipping point with my opinion of KS a few games ago - at this point from my own perspective and opinion, he needs to win and win consistenly and lose all the bad decisions and tendancies for the entire rest of the season for me to gain complete faith back in him ... getting pass happy, bad clock and game management (even though in some games it can be very good), losing to teams we should beat, coming out flat after big wins, looking badly prepared in huge must win games, geting cute on 4th and short, repeatedly calling the same play that has has a demonstrable history of having a high probability of not being executed, not being able to make half time adjustments ... repeating those would all be things that would cement my opinion. Having a badly injured QB and leaving him exposed with a 3rd string RT one on one with TJ Watt in a game would be another - although a less likely situation to repeat itself.

We're all Browns fans. We all want the team to win. It's okay to question and highlight percieved issues. Hell - last year about half the posters wanted to tell us there was nothing wrong with Joe Woods scheme. Look at us now - anyone think we have the same defense this year with this talent but Joe Woods as DC? I don't think so .... so on to the Colts. Here's to a big win and movement towards the positive !