Well Cleveland, The Browns Season (5 Weeks Old) Is Officially Over Before The Guardians Season (7 Months Old)

I see PFT and Nate are thrilled with today's result and they absolutely should be, with their King / Franchise QB leading them to a 4-1 first place in the NFC East standing after an absolute demolition of the Browns today. But me? I'm not sad, and I'm especially not shocked. I tweeted before the game that with the Guardians winning on Saturday afternoon, and the Buckeyes winning on Saturday night, my 30 years on this planet we call Earth has taught me one thing: the Browns were going to get smoked today. 

....and smoked they got. 24-3 at the half and 34-6 in the 4th, until the great Deshaun Watson led them on a season-best 9 play, 54 yard drive in the middle of the 4th to make it a not-as-close-as-it-looks 34-13 final. And folks, with that result, paired with the Guardians up 1-0 in the ALDS over the Tigers, it is official: the Browns season is over before the Guardians. The only problem is that the Browns season is just 5 weeks old. The Guardians season started 7 months ago.

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You want a fun little story since there's literally nothing fun to report from the game? Here's one for you: me and my entire extended family got all dolled up in our orange and brown and met in downtown Cleveland for today's festivities. And then we left a halftime. I think I drank at a ratio of one pitcher of Miller Lite per quarter watched. And the Browns outscored us both. Browns points 3, Tate pitchers of beer 2, quarters played 2. What a fucking afternoon. 

And now I get home and I see that THIS is what we're discussing in the post game interview?

Talk about the ultimate pickle we're in in Cleveland right now. I think we can all agree on one thing: Deshaun Watson fucking sucks. I don't think it'd even be a fair deal for us if HE paid us $230,000,000 over 5 years to be our starting QB. But the fact that we're paying him to do it? Highway robbery. HOWEVER, the fanbase's narrative that he's the only/biggest problem is flat out wrong. Every single thing about this franchise fucking stinks. Offense. Defense. Special Teams. Discipline. Coaching. Ownership. EVERYTHING. I want to give Kevin Stefanski the benefit of the doubt because he's shown that he's a good coach, but what the fuck is going on here? Part of me wants to put the team up for sale tomorrow and start fresh. Draft Quinn Ewers in the 1st round, in which we may be picking #1 overall, and go from there. But instead it appears we're going with the Groundhog Day technique. Deshaun will be our QB moving forward, and hopefully we can correct some of the flaws that have led our team to a 1-4 record (against the softest schedule in the league) without having scored 20 points in a week yet. I'm sure it'll get easier though! Bengals twice. Ravens twice. Steelers twice. Chiefs, Eagles, etc etc. This team may finish 1-16. And I thought they could win the division….

Fuck it. It's baseball season in Cleveland. Don't talk Browns to me until the Guardians lose.