I need to be honest with you before I get into this – I’ve never been a NFL coach (head, assistant, etc), or a NFL GM, or a NFL scout and definitely not a NFL team owner.
So take what I say with a grain of whatever you want to take, but I think the best time for a NFL team to peak is in the regular season when games are being played and championships are being won.
Not the offseason when everyone is waiting around for football to come back into our lives.
But that’s apparently not how the Cleveland Browns do things because for the second straight year the Browns have done their best work when football is still very far away from us.
Last year they won the offseason championship when they traded for Odell Beckham Jr. and everyone, including the NFL, which scheduled the Browns for what felt like 900 nationally televised games, thought they would be contenders in 2019.
Newsflash – they weren’t contenders. At all. Baker Mayfield was awful and the Browns finished how they normally finish a season – well under .500 at 6–10.
On Wednesday the Browns continued their offseason dominance when they showed off their new uniforms and then sat back as everyone on Twitter sang their praises.
Yup, NFL fans were actually impressed by the Browns, which can only mean one thing – it’s not the fall.
The Browns’ new uniforms deserve all the compliments that they’re getting because far too often teams go the other way and make terrible changes. I’m looking at you, Falcons.
But come the fall (if there even is football, which is sad to even type) the Baker and the Browns will need to start impressing people when it starts are things could get even uglier for a franchise that has been awful for so darn long.
But hey, at least for one day in the offseason they were celebrated by everybody.
Gotta take your wins when you get ’em, I guess.
Wednesday’s biggest winner: The Nationals, who roasted the Astros.
Remember when baseball was still a thing and everybody was crushing the Houston Astros for cheating? Yeah, those were good times. Well the Nationals brought that back as they watched a replay of Game 7 of the 2019 World Series and had fun roasting the Astros in the process. Ah, some normality back in our lives. Feels great!
Quick hits: Deep dive on Tua… Latest NFL mock draft… Sports fans get hilariously specific… And more!
– Steven Ruiz does a great deep dive into Tua Tagovailoa and what type of NFL career he can have.
– Our Henry McKenna has his latest NFL mock draft… check out where Tua could go.
– Fans on Twitter shared some hilariously specific things they miss the most about sports.
– Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman says NASCAR driver Kyle Larson “needs his [expletive] beat.”
– The WWE released Kurt Angle and more than a dozen other stars on Wednesday. Boo Vince McMahon. Boo.
Mike Trout thinks MLB’s idea to play isolated baseball in Arizona is “pretty crazy.”
– A “disgusted” Mel Kiper defended the Bengals in a very passionate rant.
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