Here is a bit of notable minutiae: Before Kevin Stefanski, the last Browns coach to achieve multiple seasons with more wins than losses was … Marty Schottenheimer, from 1986 to ’88. This is one of those factoids that places decades of confusion, misery and incompetence into a neat little display, allowing us all to properly gauge its true size and scope.
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And, perhaps more than that silly jersey with all the names of the Browns’ starting quarterbacks since 1999, it explains why Cleveland became synonymous with the worst of the NFL. Post Bill Belichick, after the team’s rebirth as a franchise, there was this engrained cycle of hiring the absolute worst coach possible, pairing that coach with a general manager who had vastly different visions, and layering them both underneath an owner who could, from time to time, have a third idea that was different from the misaligned GM and coach.
