Here are two things we know for certain about the current iteration of the Browns:
• As a franchise, they are dutifully obsessed with the idea of organizational alignment and understandably detest the perception of their recent tumultuous past before 2020. General manager Andrew Berry once told me about the frequency of surveys being sent out by the team’s upper management. After meetings. After tentpole events. Feedback is given anonymously and hopefully honestly. There are follow-up meetings about incorporating the feedback. There is feedback about the feedback.
One of Berry’s coworkers once told me that he talked at great length about Diversity of Thought during one of his first organization-wide addresses. His selling point seems to be a club finally devoid of distracted infighting and wayward politics. The Browns have had their minor, internal scuffles since the current regime arrived, but nothing compared to years past, when almost every general manager and coach was in a footrace to undermine one another anonymously to the press.
