CLEVELAND, Ohio (TheOBR.com) Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!
THE DAILY BLOVIATION
The good thing about following a perennially losing team is that you get to understand a bit more about human nature. You get to see perseverance, you get to see the forms that frustration takes. I’m guessing I could get a degree in sociology from all I’ve learned about how large groups of people react to stress. And then I could use that degree to the same effectiveness I put my engineering degrees, namely, not at all, because I’d rather run a Browns website than anything else.
There are a lot of powerful feelings that can come from following and rooting for a team that constantly embarrasses itself and, by extension, its fans. Two of the most powerful are regret and the desire to blame.
Those feelings are at the forefront right now as Browns fans got a chance to see ex-Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield in action on national TV, along with Texans running back Nick Chubb. Chubb is not the player he once was, running last week for an average of 3.6 yards per carry, but after the first couple of weeks of the Browns’ season, that’s better than the Browns have been doing.
Baker Mayfield, meanwhile, went 25/38 passing with 215 yards. Again, not an eye-popping performance, but he produced key plays when needed and led his team to victory.
After the last few years of horrifying quarterback play in Cleveland, Baker Mayfield is looking awful darn good right about now.
The Browns have a bit to regret about how they handled Mayfield, whose reign ended chaotically with wide receivers’ relatives posting negative videos and a general sense from the team that Mayfield couldn’t carry them over the top. So, they traded an unbelievable number of future picks for Deshaun Watson and gave him a guaranteed contract because they felt that he would take the Browns where Mayfield couldn’t.
Oops.
In the wake of what’s happened, Mayfield looks much better than he is, and John Dorsey looks like a brilliant decision-maker in retrospect. Outside of s
This is all useless. It’s a waste of time to think about past mistakes beyond what you can learn from them. They’ve been made, and you have to figure out how to move forward. There are some positives on this team in the form of the most recent draft class, and it would be nice to focus on that instead. But, human nature being what it is, it’s a lot easier to get fired up about what could have been than deal with the challenging present.
As I pointed out on Monday, the present doesn’t look all that promising, so, as Browns fans, we need to focus on the future, not the past. The future does look interesting, with some potential stars emerging, and a treasure trove of draft picks for the 2026 draft to perhaps find a future QB and replenish the offensive line.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be upset by what appears to be another doomed season, but simply that life will be better if you and I try to focus on the positive and what may be other than what might have been.
That’s one of the reasons we do a draft show on YouTube and regular stories about the 2026 draft class. The nature of the NFL is that even the worst teams can turn things around, and do so relatively quickly, if they’re smart about player selection.
Sure, I could have used this space to rage at Andrew Berry, Kevin Stefanski, and Jimmy Haslam, and probably would get a strong response and a lot of page views if I did. It’s just that I hate watching the Browns fan base tear itself apart year after year because of the incompetence of the team they follow.
A lot of my peers in the media world are very cynical about Browns fans. I’m not. It’s incredible you’re all still here after 26 years of frustration, and you deserve better. If this site can help in some small way to make the experience more tolerable, then I guess we’ve done our job.
Have a good one! GO BROWNS!
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When not considering airdropping psilocybin over the next Browns home game, Barry McBride is the Publisher and Founder of the OBR and bloviates this nonsense every morning. You can follow him on Twitter @barrymcbride or write him at barry@theobr.com if you are so compelled.
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