The NFL’s Biggest Comedy Act: How The Cleveland Browns Have Never Had A Franchise Quarterback…

okay so throughout all of human history there are a select few images that tell a story of a thousand words in just one picture and in the sports field alone there are already hundreds if not thousands of those as well but never before has a singular image become more synonymous with one team and its complicated history than the iconic Browns quarterback jersey just by looking at it you can almost smell the stench of Despair through your screen as you read every single name with a different emotional reaction to each failed human experiment on that Jersey and you know that's that's why I got this board here sorry Tom it's it's not your video there we go all right yeah that's totally going to stay you know I was thinking it's already got a a Raider sticker on it as you can see it's already infused with sadness so I might as well track all 36 starting Browns quarterbacks as of the recording of this video put him on this little board behind me so it's easier for you to to really keep track of everything so let's get into it without further Ado it's time this video has been months in the making so join me as we take the deepest of dives into how the Cleveland Browns became the most miserable franchise in all of sports and the 36 and Counting quarterbacks that all failed to bring Browns fans Eternal happiness and it all started in the Fateful year of 1995 I can't came down to a simple proposition I had no choice the Browns are indeed coming to Baltimore I usually start these documentary videos out with a whole cliche of introducing some old dude who had a ton of money and then let greed consume him and um I'm going to do it again forgive me but meet Art Modell a name that instantly makes all Brown's fans over the age of 30 have an episode but why is that I mean surely he didn't do something that terrible to explain why Brown's fans were routinely arrested for turning his grave site into a public Ural right I mean come on that's going too far well I'm not excusing those actions but there's reasons for it and First Let Me Explain Who Art Modell even was in 1961 Modell was part of a group that purchased the Browns for $4 million and during his time owning the Browns he Beed witness to some of the most cruel forms of grid iron torture in NFL history with the fumble and the drive just being two of many iconic plays that happened against Cleveland and with that much pain you'd think the Browns fan base would die out but no if anything they grew stronger through their shared Bond of suffering and despite Fielding a few really terrible teams in the 9s coached by some grumpy old guy named Bill bich the fan base was as loyal as ever I mean there's no denying it this team had some of the best fans in the country and they also had iconic players in their past in figures like autogram Jim Brown sexual assaults aside Paul Brown Paul Warfield and so many others and after a relatively solid run in the 80s surely they weren't going anywhere anytime soon but then Art Modell whipped it out the trump card that changed everything when rumors began to circulate that he was about to do the unthinkable Art Modell was talking with Maryland officials in an attempt to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore nobody could believe it but it was official on November 6th 1995 flat in the middle of the NFL season Art Modell just said you know what f it and announced that Cleveland Browns would be moving to Baltimore forever literally in the middle of the Season he just ripped Browns fans hearts out and threw it in the ground and just squashed it I mean could you imagine if like the Buffalo Bills just in the middle of the Year decided hey we're going to we're going to move to Sacramento next season that's what it was like for Browns fans at the time and from here on out until further notice at least the Browns as an organization and basically a brand would literally cease to exist but I mean come on was that it was Art Modell really just an evil incarnation of greed whose intention was to hurt the city of Cleveland as bad as possible and well maybe but how we got to the worst moment in Brown's history of their team leaving them was complicated first early on in his time owning the Browns Modell was actually offered multiple times to be part of a deal called project Gateway which would have built the Browns an entirely new stadium along with other local teams to help the city's economy and a new stadium was needed badly because one of the main reasons Modell had the Browns move in the first place was the rotting Stadium they played it it it was it was really bad but alleged ly due to reasons varying from wanting to see the end of his lease in the Brown Stadium to well his pride and ego Modell backed out of project Gateway and planned renovations to the stadium that eventually just never happened and in the end it's it's really sad to say but guess what the NFL just doesn't care about the fans that much the facts were that there was just more money to be made in Baltimore and after a long emotional chat with future Brown's owner Al learner ironically Art Modell with tears in his eyes did what he thought was best from a soulless Financial point of view and in time the Cleveland Browns roster became the current day Baltimore Ravens but it didn't stop there okay I know this is supposed to be a quarterback centered video and trust me it it will be but tragic irony is just it's built into this Browns organization because after the Browns as everyone knew them were gone and the fans had their last season in Cleveland the hate boners for Modell were just at their absolute Peaks and honestly they were pretty warranted he's obviously not the only guy to blame but as Al Davis said himself Modell is the one who spoke out adamantly against moving the Rams he put a lot of obstacles in our way the Raiders way in Los Angeles and it's deja vu here he is standing up changing everything he has said over 15 years in about 1 month and ladies and gentlemen the business side of the NFL at its absolute finest right here and honestly I I hate to say this but it's about it gets so much worse you think this is NFL Executives at their absolute greediest well get ready to learn how the Cleveland Browns came back into the NFL so Browns fans were already just devastated after losing their team because of the collective mistakes of the city and owner of the team they were forced to trust but that's not all because these Cleveland fans were forced to watch as their once proud orange helmet was painted a different color and rebranded to intentionally bury their past and Aussie Nome the Browns former director of player Personnel a former Hall of Famer for the Browns one of their best and most important humans in their entire franchise's existence a man who was so loyal to Cleveland he reportedly kept a jar of dirt from the Browns last home game on his desk even when he changed professions held the general manager job of the Baltimore Ravens now and in just his first season on the job he helped bring in two Hall of Famers in the same draft in Jonathan Ogden and OJ Simpson so that that that can't feel great but um the success the Baltimore Ravens will grow into will uh a little bit more later on for now though the Browns needed to fight to even get their franchise back which they did actually and the man who purchased the Cleveland Browns expansion team would be none other than Al learner the same man who I mentioned earlier who helped Browns fans over by helping Gaslight Art Modell into going for the kill now how did the NFL let this happen you may ask well simply the dude had the most money I mean nothing else matters other than that right I mean as long as the cash flows in we're good so just like that the 199 99 expansion Cleveland Browns were born and unlike their past iteration of the team that was built on the innovation of Paul Brown and the dominance of autogram and later Jim Brown These Cleveland Browns these fake Browns were built on nothing more than greed and sold to the highest bidder who just so happened to be one of the most hated men in Cleveland history so don't mean to skip ahead here but maybe this helps explain why no matter the talent this team will see much later on in the back of your mind there will always be the thought of well the Cleveland Browns are always going to be the Cleveland Browns but to to stay in the present timeline most Cleveland fans felt like they had no choice and those poor souls were forcefully dragged down into the pit of the initial process of becoming the hollow organism of Agony also known as Cleveland Brown fans yet again Stockholm syndrome it's it's powerful and so it All Began all over again the Cleveland Browns were reborn formed from the Fallen ashes of art Modell's wallet they were back and ready to start causing irreversible mental damage to Browns fans everywhere because right off the bat the Browns as an expansion team needed time to get people to start you know working I mean the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars the two most recent expansion teams of the time both had well over 600 days to get ready for their first game whereas the new age Cleveland Browns barely had over a year before their first game even started so with that little time uh a disaster would predictably ensue so they took their time and decided the first thing that they should all do collectively was panic because they did need a strong voice in the front office uh but they really rushed into their first decision and basically just said you know what let's just hire somebody who's Come From Success and the first guy they brought in was Carmen policy a former 49ers executive to be the CEO and then they hired his partner in crime with another 49er in Dwight Clark to be the GM and I I guess this all sounded good in theory maybe but as it would later be revealed Dwight Clark wasn't even remotely supposed to get the general manager job at all he wasn't even close to being prepared to be remotely responsible for the transactions the team would make but given the time crunch they were in they kind of had no choice but to keep moving forward because remember they didn't even have a head coach at the time yet so they needed to deal with that still and I'll try to make this quick but basically after trying to steal another 49er away and Steve maruchi to be the head coach and Mike hren also later failed they still knew how important it was to at least bring in some guy with experience so after laughing at Bernie Kosar one of their most respected former players for even suggesting bringing back Bill bich the Browns felt like they had their guy and Vikings offensive coordinator Brian bilck he was perfect for the job a guy who was actively leading one of the most revolutionary offenses ever surely he would be a perfect fit on this team that our future protagonist Tim Couch will later describe as just a bunch of guys and I I can't see why in the hell this job wouldn't be attractive to someone like bck I mean as the great joke Kim Noah said why wouldn't anyone ever want to live in Cleveland right I mean it's it's a perfect City I mean I never heard anybody say I'm going to Cleveland on vacation what's so good about Cleveland the only issue was that Brian bck Minnesota Vikings had just come off of a situation in the NFC championship game so all the Browns had to do was give the man some space you know let him grieve and just give him a minute to collect his thoughts and the second the game ended the Browns sent Dwight Clark out to Minnesota to kidnap him back to Cleveland and basically force him to take the job well then um a bold business tactic for sure and shockingly it actually rubbed Brian bck the wrong way turns out there was another team that was interested in his services that actually cared about his emotions and in the end Brian bck cited with that team which turned out to be the F Baltimore Ravens God the the Browns they're just they're the best of the best when it comes to football comedy and to to be honest with you that's what this video is going to devolve into eventually just one big comedy where we all laugh at the Browns for all of their horrible horrible mistakes so that sucked especially to see Brian join the Ravens but as long as he doesn't win anything important you know it won't be won't be that bad and in the end of the Browns coaching search there were a ton of guys available such as Andy Reid John Fox Marvin Lewis Herman Edwards and more who admittedly also probably didn't want to live in Cleveland but this is the man man the Browns settled on Fu Chris Palmer a man who had zero coaching experience and never got any head coaching experience after his time with Cleveland but the Browns already in experienced front off has looked past all of that and hired former Jaguar's offensive coordinator Chris Palmer to be the first ever head coach of the expansion Cleveland Browns so these are the guys we're going to be rolling with for the next couple of years and so what you've all been waiting for has now arrived the Cleveland Browns needed a quarterback the perfect guy to capture the hearts of these new Browns fans and inspire a generation so with the first overall pick in the 1999 NFL draft not only did the Browns have to get this decision right for football purposes to give them a franchise quarterback but as LeBron James would later prove for the Cavaliers the city of Cleveland as a whole their entire infrastructure could have just changed forever if they hit on this one pick now okay but before we start giving a for getting this pick wrong cuz we all knew they did let's see what their options were okay in the 1999 NFL draft the headline was simple there were three quarterbacks far in way better than all the others Tim Couch Donovan McNab and achilles Smith there was also a standout running back Prospect by the name of Ricky Williams who Chris Palmer later said he wanted the draft but realistically he was never even on the table and the conversation was between these three guys who would be the first quarterback for the new Cleveland Browns in franchise guys history but to be honest with you this was never really an argument okay I could play up the drama but McNab was cool and all but Tim Couch was F dominant at Kentucky sort of and when the 1999 NFL draft came the Cleveland Browns selected Timothy couch first overall it immediately signed the man to a record-breaking 7-year $48 million contract Jesus Christ now that they just broke the money barrier I guess it was time to do the the same thing to the quarterback that they just drafted before the 1999 season began the Cleveland Browns roster was just terrible I me obviously though I mean remember they were an expansion team but they also got absolutely cucked by the NFL in the expansion draft it's it's a little confusing but basically teams could protect more players than they could in past expansion drafts and given the Browns didn't really have a scouting team they really just had to sift through the trash and assemble as many old Veterans as possible to just feel the team granted they did miss out on Kurt Warner famously but I mean come on let's be fair here do you really think that Curt Warner's career would have been the same if he was a third string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in 1999 but knowing this knowing how awful the roster was on paper it seemed like the Browns were actually making a great decision by telling Tim Couch himself to his face there is no chance he plays at all during the entire 1999 season you're we're not going to play you your whole rookie year that's what they told me the plan was me to sit the whole season yeah we we'll get into that in a second but then the 1999 offseason came to an end and before Week 1 it was announced that career trash can quarterback Ty Detmer would be the first ever starting quarterback for the New Age Cleveland Browns so you know first guy most people think it was Tim Couch but it was actually Ty dmer so let me let me add his name to the board first here the first guy how do you how do you spell his name nice so it was time let's do this game number one in Cleveland Browns history the stadium was popping everyone was hyped up just to see some football again and after a hard-fought game the Browns played one of their best games of the entire season and fell to Pittsburgh 43 to zero on Sunday Night Football they broadcasted this massacre in front of the entire country I but I mean are are you even a little bit surprised that this was one of those games where I could reel off stats for like 3 minutes about how you even lose a professional sporting game this horribly but instead let's let's laugh at the Browns here for a moment okay remember how I said they made it crystal clear to Tim Couch no interpretation otherwise that they were going to give him the whole season to learn from the side line and not just get sacrificed to the Eternal football deities behind an o line held together by Ben Gay and weed well that whole plan went straight through the drywall in in just week one because in that game down by 36 points Tim Couch would enter the game in replacement of Ty dmer and something something there's some deep foreshadowing here because Tim Couch threw a terrible interception on his first ever NFL throw and now Ty Detmer was officially benched basically never to be mentioned again and Tim Couch became the second of the failed experiments in Cleveland you know for for a select few players here I think I'm gonna think I'm going to draw a picture of them so get ready to see my Elite drawing skills put on display all right I think I think I pretty much nailed it to be honest with you all right Tim Couch nice that poor guy so just like that the Browns fed Tim Couch to the wolves and there's no sugar coating this it was a cataclysmic disaster the 1999 Browns were so bad it took a Hail Mary and a game-winning field goal just to barely ES escape a winless season that was that was an unintentional joke there and Tim Couch finished his rookie season showing flashes of potential but at the end of the day it was all buried beneath his record of being the most sacked rookie quarterback ever at the time something that the Browns coaching staff seemed to be trying to avoid early on and as guys like David Carr and Bryce young would later prove shattering your rookie quarterback's confidence immediately is arguably the worst thing you can ever do to develop a quarterback and that's exactly what they did the the 1999 Browns went 2 and4 and the most notable thing that happened on the field would be Orlando Brown Senor almost getting his career ended by a rogue flag but thankfully he managed to recover and signed with the Baltimore the Baltimore Ravens as I said though there were flashes of talent from the Browns franchise quarterback okay he wasn't all terrible and at the absolute very least Tim Couch wasn't Achilles Smith which is an overwhelming positive and the 2000 NFL Draft was also just around the corner and was another great chance to add some more talent because once again they had the first overall pick where they used it to draft Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown a man who um for those of you under the age of 30 you probably have never heard of before which given that the next three defensive players off the board would go on to be pro bowlers at the very least um yeah maybe Dwight Clark and the rest of that front office in Cleveland had it the first clue as to what they were doing not saying Courtney Brown didn't have talent because he definitely did but we'll speak more what went wrong with him in a few minutes because boy we have probably the worst quarterbacking season in the history of professional sports to get into right now so let's do it I'm excited first the 2000 season for the Browns was uh not good at all even for their standards however that doesn't mean there weren't few in faint bright spots and if you're a Tim Couch supporter the first three games of this season would probably be your main piece of evidence to say that he had it in him all along as he was averaging 245 yards per game almost almost two touchdowns and had a QB rating of 107.7 and most importantly he was leading the Browns to a two in1 record looking like the team's Most Valuable Player yeah breaking news turns out number one overall pick actually has talent in him but now it looked like the time had come just like the other expansion teams at the time in the Panthers and jaguars the Browns looked like a winning record and a playoff spot was inevitable in just their second season and that narrative was only pushed further with their gritty win versus the Steelers to the point where some were legitimately calling the Cleveland Browns the F expansion Tim Couch Chris Palmer LED Cleveland Browns as legitimate Super Bowl contenders in the AFC I'm just going to say it Neil Gordon all right the guy who said this you're absolutely tripping buddy and he was proved wrong on the field pretty much immediately too as Tim Couch his next four Games took a real dramatic swing and as it turns out when you have a Young quarterback who struggles with holding on to the ball for too long when you pair that with a terrible offensive line that is a perfect recipe for the prequel to David Carr and not trying to get these dudes caught in the crossfire but by Year's End these were Tim Couch's leading receivers Kevin Johnson was actually pretty solid for them I won't lie but these other guys uh I would guess fewer than one% of you actually know who these dudes are and and this fourth guy Tony Ramirez I I actually just completely made him up he's he's not even a real football player he he does wealth management I guess anyway then after Tim couchs and the Browns began to relapse the man fractured his thumb and would miss the rest of the year and because his fellow quarterback Ty Detmer from last year tore his fo a killes in preseason the man who would replace Tim Couch would be current Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson who outside of 1999 and 2000 never started a single game in the NFL and after going through the film of his couple of appearances I I think I know what passing a kidney stone feels like because in in his first game is the Browns starting quarterback against the Pittsburgh Steelers who they actually beat earlier that same year Peterson went 9 for 20 on passes and damn near lit the grass on fire with 61 passing yards and to finish it all off the dude threw three interceptions as the Browns failed to score a single point losing the game 0 to 22 maybe just maybe Tim Couch was more important than the Browns thought he was and as the season was already so far lost at this point in week 14 the Browns tried their Lu at rookie sixth round pick Spurgeon win because for some reason they believe that a sixth round quarterback in the 2000 draft could be useful to some sort but whatever in spurgeon's first game playing uh the Cleveland Browns picked up9 net passing yards and throughout that whole game a grand total of 159 Ft worth of yards was picked up by the entire Browns offense that day I repeat the Cleveland Browns led by Spurgeon win didn't even pick up half the yards in a football field during an entire game and they lost the game 48 to zero and a few weeks later they finished the 2000 NFL season as one of the worst teams in the history of the NFL going 3 and 13 Doug Peterson became the third quarterback to start for them and uh Spurgeon wind became the fourth but um I'm I'm not drawing faces for them cuz they don't deserve it to be honest with you I you can't even read it whatever I don't I don't care I did a funny with the Browns QB room this year on another video and to be honest with you it's it still works here this Browns quarterback room was putrid and I know this season took a while to get through but I just have a soft spot for certain football teams that are so terrible at what they do I I just can't help myself from going maybe a little bit too in depth but just know I found like eight different insane stats from this team but I'll just share one with you okay because this one got me not only were the Cleveland Browns ranked dead last in the NFL in total offense but still to this day no other team has scored less points than the Cleveland Browns did in the year 2000 even their winless 2017 season that we'll get to in time scored 73 more points on the year than this 2000 Cleveland Browns Squad they were actually that terrible I'm going to cheat a little bit I'm going to give you another stat too they only had five games all year long scoring more than 10 points and I know it's not a fair comparison at all because of era difference but last year's 20123 Carolina Panthers had eight straight games of scoring more than 10 points per game so I'm not even sure that we'll ever see a team as bad as the 2000 Cleveland Browns ever again but wait there's more because before we go into the 2001 season I got to throw in one more shank into Browns fans Hearts because remember that Brian bck guy and Aussie Nome who are in the Baltimore Ravens facility Well turns out they around and won the Super Bowl that year giving Browns fans a mere glimpse of the true sight of hell as Art Modell lifted up the Lombardi trophy and with the staff and players and team that should have been theirs all right we're done okay I I won't go any further into the 2000 season I I swear and surely it's all uphill from here and Tim Couch was already dismembered and betrayed by his own Hogs and Chris Palmer was obviously fired after winning just five games in two years and to show how thankful they were for his Services Carman policy the team's president didn't just hit him with a stray but pointed the whole ass Barrel at him and tried to scapegoat Palmer for all the problems they had and to replace him they brought in former un University of Miami head coach Butch Davis to save the team from actually just going bankrupt and Bruce arens pton Manning's quarterback coach would now be the offensive coordinator oh it's so funny they think they have hope and I get that what Butch Davis did with Miami's program was truly magical but this is the goddamn New Age Cleveland Browns where dreams go to get thrust through the meat grinder leaving nothing but horrid memories and right away they decided to toss away another first rounde pick when they selected defensive tackle Gerard Warren third overall it's truly incredible how they keep doing this according to many people in the Brown's front office they had their eyes set and unwavered on taking future Patriots Hall of Famer Richard Seymour instead and most mock drafts even back then had them going a completely different direction taking some running back who you've probably never heard of before and it was even stated that the previous regime before Butch Davis was hired was already in love with leanian Tomlinson too so it was either Richard Seymour or leanian Tomlinson with the third overall pick which I mean you can't really go wrong with either one of them but no when Bush Davis came in he basically transferred GM Dwight Clark's power to himself which seemed to be an unspoken incentive to even get him in Cleveland because you know who wants to live in Cleveland and in came Gerard Warren also known as big money which is you know not a super positive nickname and the 2000 season then began and you know it actually went very very well yeah I'm not even I'm not even lying to you Tim Couch started the whole year so nothing to add in terms of quarterbacks and the Browns finished the 2001 season going seven and N incredible work boys with Tim Couch showing major signs of progress even having one of the best games a quarterback had all year in a 41 to 38 win versus the Titans but um this is the Cleveland Browns so although there were some positives the negatives were just way too heavy and we can't look past them even this season Courtney Brown the former first overall pick from 2000 battled knee and Ankle problems all year long and only played in five games and even in the games he actually played in he wasn't super impactful which sucked but the funniest part about this year is the Browns actually could have made the playoffs if the famous bottlegate game didn't happen because in this game okay listen closely cuz this is some a tier versus the Jaguars in week 14 Tim Couch found receiver Quincy Morgan for a first down which he did drop but they called a catch initially and the Browns were able to then spike the ball and deny a replay from happening because you know it happened two plays earlier however the referees decided you know what no we're just going to actively break the rules of football and review a play that happened two plays ago and ruled the pass to Morgan incomplete and then because the bottles were just raining down from the sky the zebras called the game right then and there awkwardly the NFL then made them come back onto the field and kneel the game out but yeah this was just some some usual Cleveland Browns buffoonery so all they had to do now was carry that momentum that they had to end the season I guess to the year of 2002 and hope that Butch Davis is the real deal it wouldn't be easy though because after learning that Brown's owner Al learner was diagnosed with brain cancer that would definitely complicate things because he really was the main voice in that room and being away from the team would kind of leave everybody a little bit disorganized at the very least and I say disorganized in the front office room because I I'm trying to explain what the hell happened in the 2002 NFL draft okay because it was another tumultuous one in Cleveland the player that they drafted 16th overall was a running back named William green out of Boston College and you can read more on his backstory if you want to because he was a great running back in college it's just the dude came from a really tragic upbringing both of his parents passed away early on in his life but the Browns felt confident that he could stay out of trouble and watched as Ed have you you heard of that guy he was he was pretty good at football for a little bit and he was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens eight picks later but I mean come on they don't they don't need Ed Reed and now it was finally time to begin the 2002 NFL season just not with Tim Couch because he got injured in a preseason game versus the Packers which means that Kelly hul a little known quarterback would become the fifth starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in this new expansion era thing so actually believe it or not this guy's going to be pretty important so he's not going to go over here yeah he's even getting highlighted seriously this know this guy okay he's he's lore relevant you got those notes down class all right cool cool so it's it's week one the first game of the 2002 NFL season in other words this was an opportunity for the Cleveland Browns to prove themselves as their opponent was the Kansas City Chiefs a team on the cusp of a breakout led by dick verme priest homes and their ridiculous o line and the game was actually a shootout and Cleveland was keeping up even without Tim couch and keeping up was not all they did because after Phil Dawson pretty much the only good player from the original 1999 team knocked down a 41 yd field goal the Browns held a lead 39 to 37 and with 30 seconds left on the clock and no time outs the chiefs were absolutely done except they got a taunting penalty the penalty was on the holder even though it was later said that Phil Dawson was the one taunting I mean does that make it any better but it didn't really matter because all the defense had to do was literally just stand there and what resulted was one of the most confusing sequences in NFL history where big man John Tate the chief's tackle ends up with the ball and rumbles forward but it wasn't enough game over and and then Dwayne Rudd a Browns linebacker just lobs his helmet off into the middle of the field mid playay and because of the effort by the fat guy the Chiefs just had to kick a 30-yard field goal for the win and the announcers are losing it Morton Anderson kicks it in and wins it for the Chiefs Browns lose me what a collapse ironically though despite the tragedy Tim Couch would start the rest of the regular season for Cleveland and off of the back of his very solid game manager play the Browns were a solid team but nothing special as after loss to the Steelers the Browns sat at just a 4- five record and were on track for another seven- n season but then something changed remember William green who I was talking about I basically set him up to be a bust but the dude had something in him the man was just a monster when it mattered most and throughout the second half of the season the dude proved he might be the next best running back in the NFL and went ballistic putting the Cleveland Browns on his back for the entire season he's done everything that he asked as he started the first two games green inside the 10 inside the five to the end zone touchdown oh my God the the Cleveland brouts having a good player that they actually drafted surely not right well and truth be told from weeks 11 through 17 William green burst onto the scene as a truly Elite young running back averaging a 100 yards per game on a Workhorse amount of carries capping off his seven game Run with a master class 178 yard domination to clinch the playoffs for the first time in their new franchises history the Cleveland Browns were in the playoffs you're probably wondering why I'm not like throwing all across the room and screaming because I usually do that when I get to these parts of videos but um the reason why this didn't really matter too much was that Tim Couch was a massive casualty and the man was sacrificed to even get the Browns close to the playoffs in the first place in the win versus Atlanta when they got into the playoffs Tim Couch broke his leg because Browns fans were enjoying life sober for like 9 minutes and would be out for the remainder of the playoffs meaning even after doing his part part helping quarterback the Browns to the playoffs Tim Couch would not be allowed to play in the tournament because his mental health was getting a little bit too stable not saying the road to the playoffs wasn't very Rocky for Tim Couch because hell it was in week five couch got a pretty bad concussion versus the Ravens and according to him he doesn't even remember all that much from the play but he does remember vividly one thing and that was lying on the ground injured while the same fans he put his body and mind in the line for cheered as he Aid down hurt and Browns fans to this day still detest that they were cheering that Kelly hul was coming in the game and that's why they were happy but like bro I don't I don't care how many Coors Lights you've down before 11:00 a.m. sometimes you just got to read the room regardless of that little incident the fans were granted their wish Kelly hul a bad quarterback would become their first ever playoff QB starter and their opponent in the first round of the playoffs was the Pittsburgh Steelers and organization that more often than not knows what they're doing so let's let's make this quick and wait a minute hold on going for the corner of the end zone has a in touchdown Dennis North well sh th this is football at its absolute Peak a snowy field hated division Rivals going at it and an underdog domination maybe Browns fans were actually right all along Kelly hul was pulverizing the Steelers defense but then it started happening reality started setting in because the football Gods wouldn't just let the Cleveland Browns flesh prison get into the playoffs and win no absolutely the hell not remember this is a comedy okay we're all here to laugh even if you're a Browns fan or not so with a chance to put the game away the Browns have two pretty unlucky moments inside Pittsburgh's 10 where they miss out on a fumble chance and then on a tip ball the Steelers score a touchdown but Hulk and green were making plays and Cleveland scored a statement touchdown to retake the lead and then after dropping an arm punt they allowed a touchdown Which brings us to the biggest play of the game third down and 12 Kelly hul and the Browns need a first down to keep the drive going and at the very least give their defense a rest and although they've made some terrible plays in the past couple minutes they have a chance to redeem themselves if they got the pick a few plays ago or the ball moved a different direction on the tip they may be winning but now is their time so Kelly drops back and delivers a dime to Dennis northcut who drops it he drop anyway F believe it or not but the Browns proceeded to completely fold and the Steelers immediately went down the field and won the game 36 to 33 with the Cleveland Browns blowing a 24 to7 lead in the wild card in their first ever playoff appearance you see why I keep calling this a comedy Kelly hul Kelly hul set an NFL record at the time for passing yards in a wild card game in 5° weather with the fans building snowman in the stands and they lost the game but all they could do was keep moving forward I guess and with the unfortunate passing of Al Lerner the upcoming 2003 season would be the first underd ownership his son Randy learner would take control of the rain so that's that's fantastic now with the coaching staying relatively similar All Eyes turned towards project fix Tim Couch because at this point Tim's NFL career was looking Grim but if he would have a career Renaissance it would come in 2003 forget that the dude had too many concussions to even keep track of at this point at the wise age of 25 and forget that from 1999 to 2003 Tim Couch was sacked fourth most among all QBs despite playing less games than all three guys ahead of him and forget that the man's confidence was gone literally just gone so maybe Tim Couch was a lost asset and the Browns kind of thought so too to be honest with you the whole save Tim Couch's career thing went up in Flames immediately when Kelly hul won the starting quarterback battle going into 2003 but to his credit couch was a real professional about the whole thing still talking to the media and being a good teammate and that's the thing with Tim Couch Talent was never really the biggest issue but I do believe he never had like Superstar potential like Donovan McNab did have but I feel like he could have been at the very most like an Alex Smith Derek Carr type guy but in Cleveland that just was never really going to be realistic now 2003 was here fun times we're only ahead right no no it's time for some good oldfashioned Cleveland Browns Tom Foolery all right it it's about to get Hog Wild so Kelly hul is the franchise guy now right nope breaks his leg on a QB sneak how I couldn't tell you but okay at least they still have talent remember William green the running back who carried them before he should keep developing nope absolutely not dude decided to go for a cheap little booze cruise while high and ended up getting suspended for a majority of the season and for more fun in games he cheated on his fiance and got stabbed for it well this is all mildly unfortunate but at least they still have Kevin Johnson who's logged 2,000 yard seasons with the team damn near and uh never mind he got cut why did he get cut you may ask well because his wife was the woman who William green cheated on with all right man last one okay I swear this is it their only Pro bowls SL All Pro level player they've ever had to this point was linebacker jir Miller and the dude tore his Achilles in a preseason game on Turf and never played football again so the Cleveland Browns am I right you see why I made this video now like this just casually happens from time to time and with a combination of Kelly hul and Tim Couch again the Browns went 5- 11 but more importantly the 2004 season would bring the end of the Tim Couch experiment officially as after trying out for a few other teams injuries just made it impossible for him to even be a backup for a few years and he never played in another game in the NFL again meanwhile throughout all of this Courtney Brown kept getting hurt Gerard Warren was mid at best with an attitude and William green got shanked and together these four first round picks all officially failed with the Cleveland Browns in just a few seasons and the funniest part is is they all failed for different reasons Tim Couch got his confidence destroyed instantly Courtney Brown kept getting hurt Warren ego was just too big and William green could never Escape his demons so seemingly no matter what the Browns did in the draft it was just destined to go wrong whoever had The Misfortune to go to Cleveland was never going to reach their full potential and I mean let's not let's not look past that the Browns just had a boners 2003 campaign so entering the 2004 NFL draft this seemed like the perfect situation to go with a quarterback right I mean Tim Couch is out they need another guy and yes Eli Manning and Philip Rivers were going to be off the table but Ben rothberger Captain fat would have fallen right into their laps and all they had to do was sit there unconsciously and wait and the Browns front office even had him ranked as the second overall player on their draft with mock drafts also agreeing completely with their logic so with the sixth overall pick the Cleveland Browns decided to take the calm and collected levelheaded oh oh no um if you know you know and if if you don't know please do not Google what uh Kell Winslow did later in his life you you will know eventually though but wow okay I I guess the Browns aren't going quarterback in the draft and instead went all in on another former piece of the 49ers signing quarterback Jeff Garcia to a 4-year $25 million contract to be their next franchise quarterback even before the draft began for those of you who've never heard of Jeff Garcia before I can't can't blame you he was pretty solid for the ners for a little bit there but in Cleveland he did absolutely nothing but he was announced as the sixth starting quarterback in Browns history so let's do it Jeff Garcia unfortunately for Jeffrey he didn't last too long on the job it seems like nobody really can though behind a still terrible o line and the season as a whole just ended entirely in week two when the Browns lost to the Cowboys in a tight matchup 12 to 19 but Jeff Garcia their shiny new sacrificial token went 8 for 27 for 71 yards zero touchdowns and three picks and to make matters worse their first round pick Kell Winslow would also just snap his leg in his second game ever in the final 6 seconds on an onside kick nice I mean if it weren't for this whole quarterbacking thing going on I would probably just skip the entire season but eventually Jeff Garcia got hurt and Luke maau yes the brother of Josh maau would become the seventh starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and like Garcia this this dude doesn't don't don't even think about him after I write his name down he he's going down here too you're never going to see this dude's name again the disrespect I know I'm literally covering him but the dude is irrelevant and when the Lesser maau took the field all 18.2 Browns fans that tuned in lost a good portion of their stomach acid because whatever was left in there was just vomited out I maau and the Cleveland Browns okay they lost this game 37 to7 and maau was terrible as you could have probably expected but just how bad was he well since the year 1990 no NFL team has ever gained less allpurpose yards in a single game than the Cleveland Browns did on that very day when Luke maccau played against the Buffalo Bills and to this very moment they hold the record comfortably I just don't understand how Browns fans do it and even before this game began Butch Davis was fired which was going to happen after the season ended anyway but when the Browns logged yet another uninspiring double digit Lost season going 4 and 12 just when the fly of Despair seemed endless the Browns made the only decision they really could have and it turned out to be the right one they cleaned house completely bringing in Romeo kenell to be the head coach and Phil Savage to be the general manager and thus a new era was born up the sidelines has and with touchdown I love this town this new regime had all the opportunity in the world to build a Powerhouse from nothing if they played their cards carefully so they started out by throwing Jeff Garcia overboard and then made an okay draft selection being very nice when they took brillan Edwards third overall and he's also a player that comes with a ton of baggage but as you'll see he'll proved to be better than Courtney Brown was at least and a transaction that went completely under the radar at the time was the signing of undrafted rookie Josh cribs to the roster one of the greatest special teams players ever but this team was still a long ways away from being competitive and without a franchise quarterback nobody's going to take you seriously and with Jeff Garcia and hulc gone to Detroit and buffalo that made room for the 33-year-old Super Bowl winning quarterback Trent dfur to start as the eighth quarterback for them and a rookie third round quarterback Charlie fry would fill in for five starts too with mixed results becoming the ninth quarterback so let me let me draw these two guys too actually Charlie fry isn't completely useless to know but um I honestly wrote the script and I forgot that Trent dfur played for the Browns well I spelled his name wrong but it is what it is the season under Trent dfur and Charlie fry did not go well but like I said the Browns were moving in the right direction it's just this roster had too many issues the Browns had an awkward running back room that now seemed to be taken over completely by newcomer Ruben drowns who ran for 1,200 yards and the defense was still a Barren Wasteland as the Browns won six games and we just waiting for their time to strike cuz it sure as hell was not now it's just just it's a real shame that Kell Winslow who missed almost the entire 2004 season also missed the whole 2005 season because his tire was shot by an onling sniper and tore his ACL doing that little motorcycle thing but as long as the guy can stay out of trouble in the future and not have any controversies outside of Cleveland even too it should be fine and you know maybe the Browns have a chance at at changing Destiny I look dude I'm just trying to be positive here okay yeah no positives here prepare to be in Ed on the most hilarious literally the best form of ironic torture directed at the Cleveland Browns ever so before 2006 they finally landed a massive free agent and his name was L Charles Bentley the two-time Pro Bowl center for the Saints signed a 6-year $36 million deal to become a Cleveland Brown now Bentley was regarded as at the time the best free agent on the market and how he ended up in Cleveland was basically because he was from there born and raised in in Cleveland and played at Ohio State all Bentley wanted to do during his entire life was play football for the Cleveland Browns organization and I'm sure you could tell what I'm sitting up here but I'm not even trying to be dramatic I I swear dude did it to himself he said and I quote I can die happy now and that he fulfilled one of his life goals just by being a Cleveland Brown so do you think that the football Gods took this unwarranted happiness kindly in Cleveland no they didn't and so the eighth plague was brought upon the Browns facility gifting multiple players with a nice staff infection which is basically why people are told to keep their wounds cleaned at all times and away from bacteria but Cleveland's dirty ass medical team apparently didn't get the memo and one of the players infected was L Charles Bentley to add injury to insult to injury I guess he got the infection after tearing his Patel attendant in the first play of the first scrimmage of practice so Not only was he out for the season regardless but his staff infection would be come so bad that he almost had to get his leg straight up cut off I mean amputation is not a word that's just thrown around in medical fields and just like that the career of one of the best free agents the Browns ever signed a man who just wanted to play for his hometown team and nothing else would end and the guy would never play another snap in the NFL after 2005 never suiting up for the Cleveland Browns even once well played Cleveland well done and with with that this led to a complete relapse in 2006 for them a first round pick brillan Edwards potential was all sucked up and spit out in seemingly one season as he was fighting teammates and arguing with coaches and whatnot and Charlie fry started most of the year but but there was one more man who saw some action and his name is Derek Anderson who you may have heard of as a journeyman backup for a while but in his rookie season in 2006 he showed I guess minor flashes of what he could possibly be capable of so just something to keep in mind but the point is that Derrick Anderson became the 10th starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and you know maybe you want to pay attention to this some very obvious foreshadowing but Derek Anderson is going to get a picture of himself he's he's he's important that looks pretty pretty nice bring a little closer see this masterpiece yeah look at that that's that's Derek Anderson pretty much pixel for Pixel I'd say so yeah you know how it is the Browns won four games but somehow Browns fans just didn't care they kept coming to games no matter what they continued buying tickets and didn't stop rooting for whatever no-name quarterback was back there and for all their years of being PS to their own organization that was fored from greed the Browns owed them one good year right just one and no but they actually got that in 2007 and it all started with one guy one draft pick that just for a moment seemed like everything was going to be perfect in the future for the Cleveland Browns with the third overall pick in the 2007 draft the Cleveland Browns took Wisconsin lineman Joe Thomas and they knew instantly the guy was going to be a monster in the NFL because on draft day he didn't even watch the draft the Chad was just having a fishing trip when he got the call to come to Cleveland and in just his rookie season he would go on to form a oneman wall on the o line and would eventually blossom into arguably the greatest offensive lineman of all time so with a player of that stature coming to Cleveland the football Gods needed to balance that out right and by trading a second round pick and a future first round pick to go get themselves a franchise quarterback in Brady Quinn which honestly at the time seemed like a great move for reasons unexplained in the moment for the value this was an amazing pick hell there were even mock drafts out there where Cleveland took Brady Quinn third overall instead of Joe Thomas Jesus man can you imagine that dark timeline what if they didn't have Joe Thomas no we're not plunging into hypotheticals yet I I won't do that to you Browns fans but one more thing to mention before we get into the regular season is that they signed the Elder Jamal Lewis an amazing running back in his prime but the dude was 28 years old now which in running back years is primordial but the dude was the brown killer in the past literally predicting he would break the single game rushing record at the time versus Cleveland before and then you know did so so might as well see how good he'll do fight for the enemy and now here we are no new quarterback news to report on as Derrick Anderson pretty much started the whole year and week one the Browns got you know throttled but okay after that game from weeks 2 through nine I would say quite possibly we Beed witness to the biggest quarterback anomaly ever like we're talking linsanity levels of just absurdness and Derek Anderson Derek mothering Anderson became a real legitimate MVP candidate Anderson got laid out by Rodney Harrison and still threw a touchdown pass Anderson throws it's caught by vicker's touchdown we'll get to his stats and how this was happening in a few seconds but do you know how astronomical the odds were that this was even happening so much had to go perfectly right for Derrik Anderson for him to even have a chance at becoming great because before the season began it looked like this was Brady Quinn's job easily I mean he was a first round pick that they just gave up damn near an entire draft for and the dude was coming into the league as a 23-year-old quarterback but then there were hold out issues from his camp and because of that Brady Quinn basically lost his ticket in the Browns starting quarterback Lottery and head coach Romeo Corell then looked at Charlie fry and Derek Anderson the two guys left and said well I don't know what to do here what am I a head coach so let's let's figure this out like men okay let's have a coin toss to see who gets the starting QB job that that'll that'll be great for the team right and and so Charlie fry then actually won the coin toss but in week one he was benched after not even two quarters of play and two days after that loss Charlie fry was straight up traded away to Seattle leaving Derek Anderson all alone and now he was the starting quarterback for the Browns what the could you imagine if your team gave away the starting quarterback job to some dude just because he want a coin toss and then decided to trade him days after after his first start once again only the Cleveland Browns but this actually ended up working and like I said Derrik Anderson from weeks 2 through n had an MVP case it's hard to see narratives from back then because I don't have a MySpace account but the man was throwing for 275 yards per game over two touchdowns and had a quarterback rating of near 100 and this was highlighted by a monster performance in his first ever start this season where he threw for five touchdowns and tied the record for the most touchdowns by a Browns quarterback in any game ever and Derrik Anderson did end up cooling off as the year went on but not by as much as you'd think and for the first time in the new Browns history Talent existed and was able to carry the Browns all year long when Derrick Anderson couldn't and like I said Jamal Lewis was here and was very productive but also brayan Edwards yeah the former third overall pick had an outstanding season like actually just look at this man's highlights this season 2007 brillan Edwards was one of the best single season receivers of the last 20 years not like top 10 or anything crazy like that but he was really good and the reason his impressive 16 touchdown reign of terror is never discussed is one he played for the Cleveland Browns and two Randy Moss existed this season and did things with Thomas so yeah pretty unfortunate and with this Browns team finally coming together they went into week 16 with a 9 and five record and if they took down the five win Bengals a division rival they would all but clinch the playoffs they did not they lost the game but luckily I I guess all they needed to have happen for the Cleveland Browns to return to the playoffs was for the Indianapolis Colts a team that had 13 wins and was one of the best units pton Manning ever had to Simply take down the Tennessee Titans in the final week of the season on Sunday Night Football they did not the Colts chose to rest their starters in just the second quarter without payon Manning the Tennessee Titans won the game 16 to10 and advance to the playoffs while the Cleveland Browns with their best record since their 1999 returned to the league missed the playoffs it's just hilarious the one time the Browns are actually good they still can't escape themselves just just listen to this okay before 2007 the Browns only had one pro bowler ever since 1999 and that man was jir Miller who I talked about earlier but in 2007 alone the Cleveland Browns had six pro bowlers Joe Thomas Kellen Winslow Derrik Anderson brillan Edwards Josh cribs and even the Long Snapper Ryan P brand all made it to the Pro Bowl that's damn near Five Guys on offense alone and they didn't even make the playoffs this team man I mean I wrote the script and it's still just a Marvel of science how this keeps happening to them and with this one unfortunate season an avalanche would fall in them in 2008 and with deep playoff run expectations they bolster those expectations Maybe by bringing in defensive tackle Cory Williams who's like the ninth Cory Williams to pop up when you search his name up and Dante stalworth a productive piece of the 2007 Patriots team who trust me will be mentioned after the season concludes the man did something absolutely unforgivable and they needed Dante to be productive as a receiver too Joe jovas one of their most reliable receivers got a staff infection and eventually had a crazy lawsuit with the Browns so he would never play football again and somebody needed to catch pass but that just didn't happen and instead this year was just plagued by injuries to everybody super villain Kellen Winslow had a weird thing going on with believe it or not a staff infection and a suspension by his own owner Derrik Anderson regressed significantly and tore his knee ligament to which Browns fans cheered again then their franchise quarterback Brady Quinn broke his finger in week 12 and missed the season and just way too many more injuries happened to get into but worst of all brillan Edwards was actually healthy I I mean no doubt in my mind the team would have been better with him in the infirmary cuz the man could not catch anything this season and his 2007 flash in the pan year would go down as one of the biggest one season Wonders by any player ever just an unbelievable number of catastrophes happening one after the other but hey for the purpose of this video I mean we love to see that and in 2008 the Browns would start four different quarterbacks Derrik Anderson being one of them but Brady Quinn also made his first start becoming the 11th quarterback then Ken dorsy yes the Ken dorsy who was the offensive coordinator for the bills and ironically is now the coordinator for the Browns became the 12th QB and then Bruce gradowski finished the year off with Ken dorsy injured in weeks 16 and 17 becoming the 13th quarterback so time to draw more names Brady Quinn you know decently important but not important enough to get a face and Ken dorsy and Bruce got what's his what's his name again Bruce grodkowski yeah he's he's a nobody I mean if you love terrible football watch some 2008 Browns highlights okay they are packed full of joy and this fun year ended with a six-game losing streak a 31 to Z loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Ken dorsy playing one of the worst professional football games a human can ever even accidentally play and the Browns finished the season going 4 and 12 and now it was time for another New Era to begin in Cleveland and more and more by the year it seemed like Romeo corell's words in this press conference just continued to ring truer and truer basically in 99 started over right uh and then two years after that uh in 2001 it started over uh and and then what four years after that it started over even if Romeo was right that doesn't mean his job was safe though and same goes for Phil Savage as both of them were canned prior to 2009 and an entire new regime would take over literally everybody was new Mike Keenan would be the president Brian D the offensive coordinator Rob Ryan the defensive coordinator Eric Mangini The bich Apprentice the sword of would become the head coach and George coinus a man with my favorite story in NFL history would be hired as the general manager and there was actual belief amongst Browns fans at the time that the team was going to turn over a new Leaf but before we get into Georgia's Story the roster needed to be addressed immediately because the quarterback room in particular was on life support Anderson was still here but he's really bad and Brady Quinn was also still here except he's been dealing with injuries and even when he's been on the field the guy hasn't shown any flashes of being an acceptable backup and the weapons Cleveland even had to work with were just gone remember Dante stalworth the guy who was supposed to rub his Patriots magic off on the other men the point is he he killed the guy yeah it's honestly horrible but Dante stalworth was clubbing late at night and struck a man with his car killing him and the most up part about this entire situation is he actually continued playing in the NFL after literally murdering somebody average Brown's moment there and brillan Edwards is also just bad now punching guys on the field and I guess LeBron's friend off the field so now he became a top three Most Wanted Man in Cleveland with a few Haymakers and that then was then he was traded to the Jets cool but it wasn't all doom and gloom okay there were some bright spots Josh cribs was great during all of this and was was about to have his best special team season ever in 2009 and George coinus and Company just used their first first round pick since 2007 to draft Alex Mack a future Pro Bowl Center for them and traded away their future a very very troubled tight end Kell winow Jr for a second round pick who would later turn out to be wide receiver mohamd maso so you know hopefully Georgia's time in Cleveland won't turn out as stinky as the others before him but with Brady Quinn and Derrick Anderson being the only two men in the quarterback room what happened in 2009 shouldn't be surprising to anybody because Brady Quinn started the first three games then got benched for being bad then Derrick Anderson started the next couple of games and got benched for being worse and then they traded back and forth for the rest of the season Once Again leading this team to another double digit loss campaign going 5 and 11 this is maybe the Brown's lowest point ever okay I mean dude just just look at this board here I mean you probably can't see it all but all those names have all amounted to zero success just one playoff collapse and that's not even counting all the Buffs they've had Courtney Brown Gerard Warren William green and the list goes on and on it's just it truly can't get worse than than than this and then the George coinus thing would happen to this day due to legal reasons nobody seemingly can ever say what happened to George kinus during his time with the Cleveland Browns and I know I'm acting like the Browns just killed the man and hit his body in the stadium somewhere but seriously there has never been a more mysterious departure of any general manager in the modern era because after not even a year after becoming the GM and seemingly not doing a terrible job the Browns fired George coinus and the only true evidence that we have about why was that cinus was allegedly seen getting dragged out of the facility by Brown security so something really bad must have happened it's sad that the duo of Eric manini and George coinus known as manock barely lasted a few months but the strap on to strap in because the theories surrounding cis's departure get Preposterous okay so there are basically three plausible explanations for him being fired first is he made bad transactional decisions and buted heads with other Executives which honestly not only is the most boring answer but also seems pretty unlikely given he didn't even have a full year to prove himself and then the second reason he had a massive drug problem allegedly and became increasingly unreliable to the point of no return which to me also seems very unlikely because the dude has three children and a wife and has never had any history with substance abuse in the public and finally the third reason and the one in my mind I believe to be Canon and Cleveland Brown's lore is he had an affair with the team's female salary cap expert got caught shot on his boss's desk after they found out and fired him and pissed on the Browns Wall of Fame before being dragged off by security yeah I'm not lying not even being a little bit dramatic didn't make any of that up there is a real chance that all of those events took place God I love the Cleveland Browns that's a sentence that I just reeled off to you and it mildly makes sense only because we're talking about the Cleveland Browns any other team other than the Raiders and you'd call Bullit okay but not here and there is actually evidence supporting this last Theory along with coinus getting fired the salary cap expert who couldn't resist the cocis Apparently uh went along with him she was fired as well and as for unleashing his demonic wrath upon his boss's desk although people involved with the situation can't legally say anything as I said little hints were given to us about what might have happened by Joe Thomas who seems like a reliable source to me and others in the future which helps put this whole puzzle together so you got that all right cool Brown's GM is gone after fuing his cooworker and Shing on his boss's desk after a lost to the Bears in just week eight and like I said the Browns went 5- 11 and needed another general manager so they got one hiring Tom Hecker at this point there's barely even a point in me mentioning all these GMS and whatnot cuz no matter what happens even if they do well apparently they're going to be gone in two seasons bare minimum but hey for what it's worth Tom's first draft turned out actually amazing this was one of their best drafts they've had in franchise history outside of the Joe Thomas draft where they took future Pro bow Corner Joe Hayden and Pro Bowl safety TJ Ward as well as taking a stab at a quarterback prospect with Texas's Colt McCoy in the third round not that it's a great pick or anything but got to mention him they did trade pretty much their only good defensive player before that draft Cameron wimbley for literally nothing and then did the same with another failed franchise quarterback with Brady Quinn but ah whatever it's just another Browns moment and in the 2010 off season the greatest quarterbacking competition probably ever would occur which of these three distinguished gentlemen would have the honor of receiving substantial and irreversible damage to their mental healths sen Wallace who sucks Jake delom who used to not suck but now sucks and Colt McCoy who was a decade younger than delom and eventually it would be revealed he also sucks yes I'm not bullshitting you Jake delom actually played quarterback in the 2010s it was it was news to me and probably is to you and you know turns out they all won the quarterback competition uh delom won it instantly but throughout the season all three dudes would get a chance to start uh delom becoming the 14th quarterback senica Wallace the 15th and Colt McCoy the 16th so got to do the thing again I kind of screwed up the why a little bit on Colt McCoy's name but I I I could care less the 2010 and 2011 season for the Cleveland Browns can sort of be summed up together by one word why their record over this two-year stretch doesn't even equate to their best record in franchise history at the time when they won 10 games and missed the the playoffs it's it's just amazing how they keep everything up too it's been it's been mind-numbing and all this time they've been wasting the career of Joe Thomas who's been racking up all pro teams and at the end of 2011 they decided you know what we don't need a wide receiver we're all set with Greg Little as the wide receiver one and traded away their first round pick that would become Julio Jones to the Atlanta Falcons th this is too much man I need Jesus I I need a beer or something but then finally when it looked like Browns fans were about to collectively organize a mass Su after the Ravens won another Super Bowl positive or negative things were going to change again the value of the Browns as an organization Believe It or Not wasn't actually increasing and so finally the Browns were free of the learner's rule when another Rich old guy with a lot of money by the name of Jimmy Haslam a man with his own uh legal uh issues purchased the Cleveland Browns franchise for a billion buckaroos man that is a lot of money so now the Cleveland Browns went into the 2012 season and more specifically the 2012 NFL draft the same way they went into 2007 where they had two first round picks this time and had a chance at a legacy draft and with those two picks they should walk away with at least one cornerstone for the future the the same way they did with Joe Thomas and Tom Hecker the GM took over this draft and instantly changed the Brown's organization forever I am lying to you no he didn't the Browns decided to draft Trent Richardson third overall who turned out to be actually pretty similar to William Green in the sense of he had all the athletic abilities in the world to be great but um well I guess he didn't get stabbed but he didn't have the brain power and arguably a worst pick came later in that same first round when they selected Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden who on paper seemed like a pretty interesting Prospect he had a lot of good qualities and bad ones too but um the man was 28 years old 28 years old a decision their future general manager Michael Lombardi would later call a panic disaster and with Brandon Weeden being drafted as the next savior of Cleveland he became the 17th starting quarterback they would have so board time oh it's it's it's it's it's getting to the point where you can't even see it anymore Brandon Weeden the Browns new supposed franchise quarterback was already older than Aaron Fu Rogers was and he was drafted in 2005 but maybe come week one weeden's greatest asset his NFL Readiness would be put on full display for the entire world to see and before before his first game even began the got engulfed by the flag oh I love the Browns so much but the Browns weren't done Browning on this very day because Brandon Weeden at 28 years old had one of the worst quarterbacking performances in NFL history bro five they lost the game by one point and my man had four picks and a passer rating of 5.1 so Brandon weeden's stardom was already evaporated instantaneously but that didn't mean he wasn't going to play for damn near the whole season starting 15 games for the Browns in 2012 only mustering one performance over a 100 passer rating but Brandon Weeden and Trent Richardson both got injured before the last game of the season meaning that fellow rookie quarterback who was all who was also 27 years old Thad Lewis yeah Thad Lewis the real guy not an autogenerated dude would become the 18th quarterback to start for Cleveland and I swear to God I'm never going to mention this man's name again honestly he doesn't even deserve to be put on the board but I'm going to do it anyways 2013 would evolve more of the same and by season's end the team went through another coach and for the sixth season in a row won either four or five games just can you imagine being a fan of this team and a six- win season would have been your best in seven years and let's just appreciate this Mastery complete Mastery of being that the Browns have achieved they've gone through more coaches during this time period but the one thing I'm going to mention is the two new quarterbacks we got from this this little time skip uh Brian Hoyer would become the 19th and Jason Campbell the 20th quarterback yeah the the Washington Jason Campbell he actually played for the Browns for a little bit and we're not done with Brian Hoyer yet either I'm actually going to underline his name so you don't forget him you know what actually screw that I'm I'm drawing a picture of it I think I've outdone myself I think this is the best drawing I've had hold on let me let me bring it closer look at look at that Beauty look at that all right so although it looked like the Browns were doing more Brown Shenanigans under another new regime they were making some better moves than usual I guess Josh Gordon who they actually picked up in the 2013 supplemental draft burst onto the scene despite his quarterback play similar to brillan Edwards and literally became a top five wide receiver in the league and Trent Richardson who remember was an absolute bust outside of a touchdown heavy rookie season was traded away for a first round pick somehow but this is where things get real fun okay first I got to flash the whole new coaching staff on the screen here for just a second so you know and most notably Kyle Shanahan was here now and once again the process repeat itself this new Browns management needed absolutely needed to leave this next draft with something to help them in the future and famously to make sure they made analytically the best decision possible they hired a team of experts that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make 100% certain they had a guaranteed quarterback of the future and the study told them take Teddy Bridgewater in the draft do you think they listened no no no they didn't it turns out the sexual uh pressure of Johnny was just too powerful and although the data said plain and simple to draft Teddy Bridgewater who turned out to be very good before his injuries they wanted Billy Vegas and drafted Johnny Manzel 22nd overall with their pick from the Trent Richardson trade and for one more Sledgehammer shot to the balls the next three quarterbacks off the board were Teddy Bridgewater Derek Carr and Jimmy G so they they could have gotten more value out of their 100K if they had just signed like one of the worst kickers in the league wait and most people know about that whole research group they hired but what what isn't as well known is this is a thing okay I didn't just make this up I swear Jimmy Haslam the owner of this multi-billion dollar company said a homeless man convinced him to draft Johnny Manzel this guy who is in charge of operating an NFL football team chose to trust a crackhead over his own team do you see why this video needed to be made at this point this is nuts so anyway Johnny Football stole all the attention and rightfully so but there are two other guys in this draft that honestly had their impacts felt way more in Cleveland for very different reasons as the Cleveland Browns selected Corner Justin Gilbert eighth overall who will develop impressively into probably their worst draft pick ever just in terms of actual talent but in the second round they selected future allpro guard Joel bonio a man who will be a massive piece on a future god tier o line but at its core this is still a quarterback video so yes we have to look at the legendary quarterback battle between Johnny Manzel and Hoyer the Destroyer somewhere there's symbolism here for this entire Fu pathetic organization but neither of us want to rip up an old scab right now and in the end the Hoyer emerged Victorious but because his ass is already on the board I don't have to write him down and with Josh Gordon suspended for the entire season it's going to be a going to be a running theme from here on out come on we know how this is going to go Brian Hoyer is going to play like two games and then he's going to get benched and Johnny Manzel is going to go in there and get sent to the goog but no didn't happen actually Brian Hoyer and the Cleveland Browns started off playing very well and kept that momentum going becoming a good NFL teamer with c field fires wide open TouchDown Travis Benjamin lesson one of NFL football do not feed the Hoyer I I mean the dude was quietly really really solid leading the Browns to a 7even and4 record and a lot of their improved play can be credited to Kyle Shanahan and his family's inhuman ability to turn any quarterback into a pro bowl level guy but there were also a lot a lot of negatives during this time justtin Gilbert their first round pick before Manzel wasn't even good enough to win the starting job and constantly was buried even further on the depth chart for being a sleepy boy a little bit too often so yeah add that first round pick to the list that just has begun to overflow a bust and on the field this Browns team was one more bad thing happening from just everything completely imploding their Pro Bowl Center Alex Max suffered one of the most disgusting injuries I've ever seen and their GM was sending illegal text messages so this you know this was all routine brown stuff but then it happened Brian Hoyer unfortunately started playing like normal Brian Hoyer over his next two games after a win over the Falcons the man lost his Destroyer title completely averaging 160 yards and two picks and then the Browns had seen enough and it was time Johnny Manzel was announced as the starter for a week 15 game versus the Cincinnati Bengals and at 7- six this game against Cincy would literally decide how this season would end and obviously Johnny Manzel would become the 21st starting quarterback in this new age for Cleveland he's going to get a picture of himself too okay I'm done and I know it doesn't hold on let me let me bring it closer I know it doesn't it doesn't look like him right now cuz you know you can see doesn't have a mustache but it'll all make sense in a second okay this is this is Johnny incognito mode so now the question was could Johnny Football save the Cleveland Browns season and pull off a miracle no no he couldn't and in classic Browns fashion this game went worse than anyone could have possibly envisioned Manzel was not only put in the most high stress situation possible and responded horribly against a very mediocre Bengals defense but after Andy Dalton had the worst game any quarterback would have all year versus the Browns a few weeks prior Johnny Manzel gave him a a pretty good scare for taking that title away having the second lowest passer rating in a game in 2014 going for a blistering 80 yards and two picks as the Browns lost the game 30 to zero ladies and gentlemen the Cleveland Browns have done it again they proceeded to lose every game left on their schedule and just because Connor Shaw a man who literally damn near doesn't have a pro football reference page would become the 22nd starting quarterback and I know I I've said this before and I'm going to keep saying it but this dude holds zero value value to you but he's going on that board the 2015 off season mainly brought in a huge overhaul to the wide receiver room with Dwayne Bo and Brian Harline and although Dwayne Bo would be the headline signing he would go on to catch five passes as a member of the Cleveland Browns ever and meanwhile Brian Hartline and their Pro Bowl tight end Gary barage would actually be pretty good assets to work with if the Browns actually knew who their quarterback was going to be because um they didn't and Josh Gordon was also suspended for the entire season and the offense had a bit more problems than that coming their way as said Kyle shanan was able to magically edit the DNA technology of Brian hoyer's body and made him a passable quarterback for a few games so it was crucial to keep him on board Kyle Shanahan that is not not Brian Hoyer and maybe give him a head coaching job in a year or two I don't know crazy statement right if only right instead Kyle Shan wanted out of Cleveland immediately he he saw no future with the Browns organization which you know he was right about and handed head coach Mike patin a document containing 32 different points explaining why he thinks the Browns are a lawless dumpster fire and in return the Browns allowed him to resign and Kyle would then go on to build the Falcons into one of the best Losers of all time anyway who's ready for another quarterback battle as Johnny Manzel versus Josh maau would be a real thing with Brian Hoyer gone in Houston and Johnny Manzel was soing terrible that he lost the battle to Josh maau as he became the 23rd quarterback and let's let's get this over with ladies and gentlemen Josh Macau unfortunately though Josh maau got injured right away so there goes the franchise and him and Johnny Manzel would then split time for most of the season with Austin Davis starting two games near the end of the season becoming the 24th starting quarterback and I'll put him on the board eventually okay just I don't feel like doing it right now besides that it was the usual more horrible play another no-name quarterback and this season though was actually the Calm before the genocidal Cyclone even with it being that boring and forgettable they did lose to the Ravens on a block field goal because Browns just Gilbert crashed his car because Browns and most importantly Cleveland only won three games a complete 180 from last year and because of his failure Mike patin was fired as head coach and the Darkness it SW follows us all because the greatest villain the Browns have had since Art Modell would come here and cement himself and you probably already know who I'm talking about hell if you know anything about football since 2017 16 it's time for the dark ages of the Cleveland Browns to officially begin you think it's already bad well I'm about to show you it can still get so much worse the huge axon era has begun and things are about to get depressing and with that it seems like this is a great time to mention Josh Gordon's annual year-long suspension and then in the 2016 NFL draft the Browns grew impatient with Josh's self-imposed obstacles and traded away the rights to Carson Wentz and felt like they really just needed a wide receiver more and drafted Cory Coleman I mean this is nearing a statistical anomaly at this point as to how many first round picks they've thrown into the sewer I know I said the 2000 Browns team was probably their worst ever but this 2016 Squad I got to tell you they have a case to be worse let's start with the quarterback room where Cody Kesler and Robert Griffin the third's ashes would become the 25th and 26th starting quarterbacks and Josh maau is still here too it's I mean what the are we doing here Cleveland it's been 17 years and the best you have at quarterback is Cody Kesley I I'm running out of space on this board just imagine what it would feel like to be a Browns fan for this whole stretch of dread and misery I mean those poor forsaken Souls it's about to get so much worse is about to go off the wall the 2016 Browns were terrible okay we know this the same bullsh was happening but this season just felt a little different looking at their roster seriously there was was nothing here their best receiver was a quarterback their defense actually did have talent though like Jordan puyer and Demario Davis but they both left after the season and had their best years elsewhere and also I need to add this last Point Joe Thomas this entire time has now made a Pro Bowl in every single season of his career never missing a start dude has just been an immovable pillar while all the walls have just been caving in on him and Hugh Jackson big Huey here in year one on the job got to working now although you probably know how the Hugh Jackson Arc is going to end it's important to know where all this started because remember Hugh Jackson objectively has a better football mind than you or I probably and in Oakland he actually helped revive Jason Campbell's career for a season or two so maybe there was a chance he could squeeze whatever life Essence was left out of RG3 or something put a pin in the Hugh Jackson character development for a second because it's time to go over the actual games cuz there was some fun ones week one they got embarrassed by Carson Wentz and what could have been week two they blew a 20 to zero first quarter lead to the Ravens and by just week three the Browns had already started three different quarterbacks three different guys started in Cleveland by week three due to injuries but I mean at least they were actually in a lot of these games and although they were 0 and five that's damn near above average for the Browns at this point and they did play the the Patriots so maybe at this point they could move on and actually turn things around and I mean I I don't even need to do a beat drop at this point you know one and 15 they lost 14 games in a row and the only team they managed to defeat was the San Diego Chargers because as it turns out some special organizations out there can actually out brown the Browns rarely so Hugh Jackson surely would be fired right I mean not saying he should be fired but back in 2013 Jimmy Haslam only gave Rob chinski one year in the job and he won three more games than Hugh did so no okay well what I just said then he stays he he's not the problem now Hugh Jackson is fine it's purely a talent issue which you know isn't entirely incorrect but I mean this man's offensive schemes were they were tough to watch it was almost as if he spent hours a day crafting the perfect scheme weekly to play into his offensive weaknesses and against his opponent's weaknesses and okay there's a lot of negative but if you really don't think things won't get better from here on out Hugh Jackson himself said if the Browns win one game next season again he'll do the unthinkable the plunge will be taken into the cavity of Hell incarnate known as Lake Erie a promise he will hopefully never have to live to see happen and the 2017 Cleveland Browns draft incidentally actually was very very good granted they were forced into taking miles Garrett you can only put so much weight on it but he is on a Hall of Fame trajectory and um for what it's worth though in 2017 he only played in nine games getting hurt almost instantly so it took some time for him to develop but also they drafted jabriel Peppers who is good now on the Patriots Larry Ogen Joby who was decently productive David joku who has been pretty good too when healthy and instead of taking DeShaun Watson a quarterback who would later develop some of the best hands in the NFL and his villain Arc will come later they were confident in another quarterback and decided to go with the Shawn Kaiser in the second round to be the next franchise guy or I guess maybe the first franchise guy whatever way you look at it as deshun Kaiser would become the 27th starting quarterback and some some guy named Kevin Hogan would become the 28th so yeah the Browns front office then took another swing at an aging receiver just like what they did with Dwayne B and signed Kenny Brit to a 4-year $32 million deal who is Kenny Brit you may ask well stop asking questions you know I I guess to be fair to him though he was a little bit better than Dwayne Bo cuz he would catch 18 passes all year 18 nice they then cut Joe Hayden too because he didn't want to take a pay cut and um oh yeah wait hold on Josh Gordon was also suspended again almost almost forgot to mention that and so with that you ready you think you know pain you think you understand how it feels to hurt in football well honestly like I've been saying though that the Cleveland Browns are a comedy act nothing more and at this point Cleveland Browns fans watch this 2017 Team every single Sunday just to feel something even if that something was to get a cheap laugh in and in 2017 it was just knock on wood I guess the worst season any singular franchise has ever had since then [Music] little Stub Step and wide open and into the end zone it's a touchdown why why must the Browns brown so Brown why can't you Brown a little bit lighter why a what the f pardon my French here but what the it got worse they actually found a way they won three games in 2015 then they followed that up with a one bomb in 2016 and this season in 2017 they did the unthinkable matching the Detroit Lions historic 0 and6 season with a goose egg of their own and boy this year was packed to the goddamn brim with classic Browns humor and more specifically I want to focus on the last game of the season that just really sealed this Browns team's fate and place in NFL lore forever it's December 31st 2017 ad. and an estimated 50,7 people attended this game all of which I can assume were not sober because holy Christ the Browns were going to play the Pittsburgh Steelers and you would assume this would just be a routine slaughtering but the Steelers decided to rest their starters so maybe the Browns had a chance to get a win in the final week of the season um no yeah I'm whipping one of these out I know I pretty much only save these for playoff games but the Cleveland Browns are truly one of the exceptions and this game is worth it it trust me it's worth the Deep dive we start the game out with a Darius Hayward Bay reverse touchdown Landry Jones to Darius Hayward Bay was an actual thing in this game but Landry Jones would then go on to throw an interception and the Browns were still very much in this game after they denied the Steelers from scoring a touchdown on Fourth and goal so hey they had a chance to escape their zero win Destiny unfortunately Cleveland would then have a punt blocked which led to a JuJu Smith Shuster touchdown however however okay it's not all bad on this graph Deshawn Kaiser threw a laser to Josh Gordon which then set up a rushing touchdown and after a Rashad Higgins 60yd touchdown and then another score the game was tied at 21 a piece with the Steelers still scoring two because the Browns defense was worse than the Steelers second team offense we had ourselves a game and it was going to come down to the wire the the Steelers backups versus the Browns trying to put everything out on the line for one more week could the Browns defense get a stop when it mattered most I mean they did not get a stop because they didn't even get a chance Juju Smith Shuster on the kickoff returned it for a touchdown ladies and gentlemen the Cleveland Browns how does this even happen so that was the dagger 100% no deny that but they ended up actually getting a drive going later on which Duke Johnson would fumble on so there goes that drive but then they got another chance and DeShaun Kaiser threw an interception this team was doing everything they could to cement the ow and 16 season but the Steelers kept leaving the door open Josh Gordon and others caught some small passes you know it wasn't anything crazy but progress was being made which set up fourth down and two season on the line and Des Kaiser who actually played a pretty damn good game for his standards an amazing one made a fantastic play Escape pressure and threw a perfect pass to Cory Coleman who drops it that's the season it's over just like that pure poetry one of the worst busts in Cleveland Browns history would cement the Owen 16 season and the the symbolism and foreshadowing that had been flowing through this Browns team since the beginning of the year was just very apparent okay before the year they decided to take Bill bich Hill that he used in Cleveland pre-art Modell doing the thing and blew it up so you know take that for what you will and Joe Thomas a man who's truly seen it all from the horrors of Brady Quinn to Johnny Manzel finally fell the man suffered his first injury of his career that forced him to miss many games and after completing the illustrious 0 and 16 Season he had enough he simply couldn't stomach it anymore and the Hall of Famer retired from the NFL at the age of 33 the Browns held a parade for their accomplishment they finished the season first in turnovers and last in turnovers forc Hugh Jackson kept his promise and dived into the sea of his own sins and that was the 2017 Brown season in a nutshell but look if there was one positive because maybe there was a management change would obviously happen so it actually actually cannot get worse I I know I've said that a lot but literally the Browns have hit Bedrock the only way to lower it from here was for Art Modell to rise from the grave because Sashi Brown was gone after doing a great job sabotaging a trade for AJ McCarron a trade that Hugh Jackson really wanted to happen but if he had gone through with it the Browns would have missed out on a certain running back who has a cool t-shirt made after him the usual rinse and repeat would happen where the Browns would hire Chiefs executive John dorsy to be their next GM and their new head coach would also be oh never mind jump the gun a little bit Hugh Jackson is still here from a business perspective keeping Hugh Jackson in town should baffle your mind but somehow the dude actually won the power struggle with the front office and kept his job after winning a singular game in 2 years he won one game in near 700 days and I looked deep okay I I looked real deep into just trying to Fathom why Hugh Jackson was so bad as a head coach I mean we can see the losing was there but why was that and turns out he suffered from a lot of the same problems that other guys suffered from uh he implemented a scheme first and just kind of forced the talent to work around that scheme rather than doing the vice versa of that and he also lost the locker room and beefed with a lot of higher up guys but to me one clip sums up the biggest problem with Hugh Jackson and just just look at it it is it is an absolute insane clip that just his ego man he's ego was out of control I'm going to say it again but the chair I sit in a little different than the chair you guys sit in I get to watch from a different lens at the end of the day I get to drive this bus and I'm going get it the way I want it that's period that's just how it works did you hear him the mother basically just said you know I hear you that's a fair point but um unfortunately I don't care you see my chair you see this I'm the boss I call the shots here and I mean does this look like a fun working environment to you this is why the culture failed to change again nobody's having fun Behind the Walls everybody's miserable always and that's how you just lose and lose and lose over and over again and it's a big piece as to why as an organization from 1999 through 2017 the Browns have only won 88 games averaging out to roughly 4.8 wins a season Meanwhile your former coach bill bich has led his team to 222 wins in that same time frame pathetic but a new era would come to light again because after going 0 and 16 they held the first overall pick for the fourth time since 1999 and this is where things actually get interesting because you could make an argument and I will later on that the Browns quarterback jersey should have officially ended on April 26th 2018 when the Cleveland Browns selected Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield he had it all the Swagger Charisma criminal history Talent he was the perfect man for Cleveland and during the rest of his first draft ever as the GM of the Browns John dorsy was just churning up gold it it was amazing outside of Mayfield the Browns found two players that besides miles Garrett have legitimate cases to be labeled as the best player on the team over the next 5 years in cornerback Denzel Ward who they got from the DeShaun Watson trade the first one and running back Nick chub and thus began their second attempt at a first overall quarterback Baker Mayfield seemed like he had a clean path to success right so I mean Cleveland needed to do everything in their power to break him but they did do one thing right unlike with Tim Couch when they just threw him into the fire they actually had Tyrod Taylor start the season out and kept him in even after they didn't lose their game in week one this this shirt is amazing you got to love that this even exists this is Peak Cleveland Browns right here then week three came along and Baker Mayfield would finally be Unleashed because Tyrod Taylor is a human injury baton and after entering the battle the energy just felt a little different the Browns rallied around Baker and ended up beating the Jets 21 to 17 and even though Isaiah Crowell picked up maybe the greatest unsportsmanlike penalty ever this was a gargantuan step forward for every tormented fan of the Cleveland Browns and then in week four Baker Mayfield would finally become the St starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns and Tyrod Taylor would be the 29th Baker Mayfield would be the 30th and I'll go on to explain it later but these are going to be the last names that I'll ever put on the board so let's make it count Baker's also going to get a picture I'm going to going to put him next to Tin couch never mind I am out of room he's going down here of course I've I've saved my Best For Last obviously look at Baker right there he's never looked better that's the franchise guys right there he's going to put an end to this curse all right it's Baker time and statistically the baker Mayfield era was actually great in his rookie season by Year's End he was ranked as the best rookie quarterback by PFF grades since Russell Wilson and this was with Greg Williams as his head coach after they finally they they did it the darkness subsided forever and Hugh Jackson was fired as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns I I didn't think it could be done yeah Hugh was gone and overall though the 2018 season without him was a year of pure development Nick chub had a Breakout game versus the Raiders miles Garrett and Denzel Ward were pretty great and this team just had a bunch of pieces on it now and finally 20 years after Tim Couch walked to the guillotine with pride he looked on in tears to see that the Browns had a franchise quarterback with real talent around him and after finishing the season with seven whole wins oh chill out there for a minute seven wow it was it was time to get a real head coach and even more Talent around Baker to take full advantage of having a great young quarterback well seems like there's a little bit too many connections to the 2000 season because the Cleveland Browns before 2019 were an easy playoff lock by pretty much everybody's standards and the question then became was the Super Bowl a realistic expectation for them and now every single San Browns fan at the time was uh definitely skeptical about this narrative but I swear it was actually the norm at the time and the main reason for this was the acquisition of an Uber talented disgruntled wi out by the name of Odell Beckham Jr and a legally troubled running back by the name of Kareem hunt these guys were basically here to replace Josh Gordon and Cory Coleman who evaporated and along with new head coach Freddy kitchens who had been coaching in the NFL since 2007 the Browns on paper had their best roster in franchise history all Pros were on offense and defense a future Superstar quarterback for sure a star running back a star corner and it was time although maybe the marketing team showing double penetration porn to the higher ups wasn't a great start before the season but whatever we'll just we'll look past that and in week one of the 2019 season the Cleveland Browns would Flex their muscles and have their traditional break out game versus the Tennessee Titans and showed the NFL that they are it's Henry over the top all the way for the touchdown the line now throw wide open to the end zone now they say touchdown they lost by 30 to Marcus Mariota in the Tennessee Titans giving up 28 unanswered points in the second half and instantly Two Freddy kitens showed he just he wasn't ready at all for this job the discipline from his players was simply not there at all as the Browns committed 18 penalties 18 to this day the most any team has ever gotten in a game since 2017 yeah Freddy good Reddit was having a great time right away Browns fans were in shambles but little did they know this was basically the assassination of France Ferdinand it was bad but yeah it was it was all downhill from here and honestly I don't I don't even know where to start but I guess let's skip a little bit ahead to week five where fresh off of allowing over 200 rushing yards to teevin Coleman and Matt breida Baker Mayfield and Odell just weren't working out and Baker in particular just played the worst game he's ever played in his life vers San Francisco with a passer rating of 13.4 so the frustration was boiling over between these two conflicting personalities and once again it was just week five in week six they then wasted a good Odell game and a Nick chub performance vers Seattle and ALS so after that game miles Garrett saw a fan asking for a picture and being the good guy that he is he obliged so the fan got out of the car and punched him in the face got it all right makes sense and I guess that fan was just taking out his anger for what was to come because after having Super Bowl expectations the brown season was all but dead when they fell to the Brandon Allen LED Denver Broncos and at 2- six the playoffs were just out of question unless unless they ran the table alas the table was not run in week nine their starting safety Germaine Whitehead decided to get a little too silly and threatened to kill a reporter on Twitter so they cut him then in week 11 miles Garrett also got a little too silly and you know did the thing resulting in him being suspended for the entire season Odell was also pissed off at everyone but to his credit he wasn't ranting about it on Twitter that much Rashad Higgins a solid white out was put in the dogghouse all year long by Freddy kitchens and to end it all off in the final week of the season the best roster in Cleveland Browns history lost to the one win Cincinnati Bangles and and that that is some textbook football torture right there they basically just handed Browns fans a nice icecream cone with sprinkles on it before the season and then proceeded to punch them in the face and beat them into a bloody pulp ladies and gentlemen the Cleveland Browns this is the way there is no deviation from the formula misery is the the only constant and even with pretty much everything going wrong on the field Freddy Kens and John dorsy got their bodies thrown in a bath of acid and that was it for them but Baker Mayfield's regression was actually the most shocking part of the 2019 season attempts were up touchdowns were down picks were up passer rating was down and it was just a horrible season for Baker altogether but at least Baker started the whole season so I guess do with that what you will and now it was new coach coing search time for about the 18th time this video and the final coaching prospects came down to two dudes Kevin stefansky and Josh McDaniels but very luckily for them McDaniels stayed in the hive to marinate for a little bit longer and they chose to hire Kevin stefansky their best coach in their new franchise's history and they also hired Andrew Barry as their new GM who remains with the team as of right now and although the jury is still out on him and his mind set of seemingly being a little bit too invested in the present over the future there's no arguing that the Browns have basically had their most success under his leadership so I mean maybe Kevin stefansky could turn things around but he did not walk into an easy environment his two best offensive players outside of the chubster were both having interesting off Seasons Baker Mayfield honestly looked pretty guilty with his Jesus dude why his Cheesecake Factory sloppy toppy incident and Odell Beckham had people accusing him of liking to be sh on so right away the ego management job that kitchens failed that was already cranked up for Kevin to even attempt to contain instantly all right whatever who cares let's let's just all laugh at the Browns again okay because in week one it looked like they were going to throw away another season I I'm getting sick of this dude I really am well wait a minute hold on maybe this Kevin stefansky guy is on to something because right after getting a meat sandwich shoved down their throat from Lamar Odell Beckham started to make some plays and he even iced the game vers Dallas with a rushing touchdown so finally Odell Beckham the Odell Beckham that we all knew was starting to get back on track and he tore his ACL trying to make a tackle after Baker Mayfield through a pick and this injury would officially Mark the end of Odell Beckham's career as an above average wide receiver injuries also just plagued the Browns during this entire season too as Nick chub the stoic warrior with suffer an MCL injury Denzel Ward missed games with a groin pull and also this was basically the co year so that was that was a thing but that was seemingly all the Browns needed the plague taking over was enough to give the Browns a chance at being good cuz that's all they could really ask for from the football Gods a shot to prove themselves as worthy and with a date with King Henry and the team that almost took down the Chiefs last year this was the opportunity they were looking for simply put if the Browns beat the Titans they would not only basically clinch the playoffs but they'd have the respect of everyone else in the NFL Baker Mayfield needed to prove it Kevin stefansky needed to prove it miles Garrett needed to prove it and they did Baker Mayfield played the best game he's ever played as a Cleveland Brown four touchdowns 300 yards a near perfect passer rating and leading the Browns to a statement 41- 35 win over the Tennessee Titans was just it was beautiful and after Lamar emptied his bowels first then the Cleveland Browns they did it they finished the 2020 NFL season with an 11 and5 record their best record in franchise history since 1999 and they made the playoffs and unlike in 2002 Kelly hulham or some backup wasn't going to start for this game no it was going to be Baker Mayfield the Cleveland Browns franchise quarterback obviously it couldn't be easy for Cleveland to actually get into the playoff though because they almost blew it versus the Jets and versus the Steelers backups it came down to a third down conversion by Baker but and it they made it in and their opponent for their first playoff game since their match up with the Steelers in 2002 would be the Pittsburgh Steelers a team that almost beat them without their starters in week 17 and were 11 and0 at one point and also were led by two all Pros on defense at the top of their game in TJ Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick and add that on to Kevin stefansky being ruled out for this game because he caught the disease the general expectation was Browns are going to Brown again for sure right I mean although the Steelers were just on Pace for a historic meltdown the raw power of the Cleveland Browns ability to just do Browns things will prove to be way too much surely and so Browns fans sat on their couch and were getting ready to watch a playoff game a foreign concept to them and I'm sure they had two feelings one of them was very excited to just watch a playoff game but also I'm sure they weren't they weren't super excited to get hurt again because it was going to happen just like it did in 2002 right they were going to maybe have a lead at some point and then completely blow it but the football CS they looked down upon Cleveland and saw those poor fans that had to suffer through Tim Couch Brady Quinn Brandon Weeden Johnny Manzel Hugh Jackson and so much more and said you know what you know what Browns fans we'll give you one we'll give you this one game for pure happiness and the game would literally end on the first play uh option play oh no and they fumbled the snap dude what the dude oh you hold on let's get the towel out 21 nothing in the first quarter let's go St this was the greatest game in this new Cleveland Brown era they actually did it Weinstein threw four picks and after jumping out to a 28 to0 lead in the first quarter the Steelers completed their collapse and the Browns finally won their first ever playoff game since 1999 it's just it's it's a shame that the greatest threat to World Peace stood before them and he wanted blood because Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs would be waiting and Mahomes played well in this game and to be honest uh the Browns were overmatched it's just this divisional game versus the Chiefs could have been been so much different if the refs didn't miss this helmet to helmet call near the end of the first half because instead of being down 19 to3 at the half which actually happened Cleveland could have scored a touchdown denying the Chiefs a field goal and all of a sudden 16 to 10 going to the third quarter receiving the ball doesn't really seem that bad but that's not how it went and Chad Henny ended up replacing an injured Patrick Mahomes giving the Browns a chance but after playing like absolute Andy Reid's Big Balls picked up a first down relying on Chad Henny that was the game with the Browns giving the Chiefs the best fight out of anyone in the AFC falling just a few plays behind 17 to 22 so this was this was rough but there was no reason to believe the Browns wouldn't be better next season right is what I would actually say if this weren't the Cleveland Browns but um yeah in just week two of the 2021 season at Baker Mayfield the no questions asked franchise guy injured his throwing shoulder on ironically just like Odell's injury an interception he threw trying to make a tackle and fully tore his laborum in his non-throwing shoulder and for the remainder of the season the injury would only get worse and Baker clearly just was not the same player playing through it now it's it's good to be back to the norm cuz the bull just returned they lost a game to the Chargers because of a horrible Pi call Baker dislocated his shoulder against the Cardinals and then the goofiest of goofy Browns moments happened when Odell Beckham Jr's father his dad booked Baker Mayfield on Instagram which killed any trade value for Odell on the market forcing the Browns to cut the man they traded for just two years prior after doing almost nothing to help the Browns win and just when the Browns thought they had a shot at Reviving their season they lost to the ma Jones LED Patriots 7 to 45 and then the year officially ended after one more loss to the Raiders in which they were forced to start Nick Mullen because basically their entire team had the virus and the Cleveland Browns finished the 2021 season with a disappointing 8-9 record and I guess uh symbolically ended with their defensive tackle getting arrested nude while fighting a police officer in a school zone it's how I imagine it feels to be a Browns fan now eight wins is not nothing and this was still an overwhelming positive for Browns fans they just had one decision that needed to be made is Baker Mayfield still the franchise quarterback and this was quite literally their most important decision to make in franchise history is stick with Baker let him heal and see what he can do with the newly acquired Amari Cooper or do you decide to go a different route and test your luck in the QB market and the Cleveland Browns decided to give up on their best quarterback in franchise history sending Baker Mayfield to the Carolina Panthers where after bouncing around a little bit he would eventually prove the Browns wrong in Tampa Bay showing the league that he can still be in above average starter in the NFL so okay I guess Baker's gone but let's see who they bring in instead DeShaun Watson it's the it's the guy they wanted they traded away three first round picks and more to Houston and handed a 5year $230 million fully guaranteed contract to a racist th this isn't even fun anymore deshun Watson would only be suspended for 11 games too so honestly the Browns got a little lucky there and all they could do is hope that every fan would just forget what he did allegedly I guess and as long as the athlete can throw the ball far it's all good so it's time for the 2022 season and everything just went to complete in week one Baker Mayfield almost got his revenge versus the Browns with the Panthers but Cleveland got a little lucky so the football Gods smited them down just one week later as the Browns lost to Joe Flaco's Jets after one of the most incredible meltdowns you'll ever see basically all hope for the year was put on DeShawn Watson's comeback and to his credit jacobe Brett consistently one of the most underrated backup quarterbacks was doing a great job and was keeping the ship relatively afloat and even took down his mentor Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr and um anyway it was week 13 time now week 13 the awaited date where Deshawn Watson would make his return versus none other than the Houston Texans his former team and in this game there there would be rust people expected that that but my God Sean Watson was terrible Watson faking to chub to the end zone it's picked off P Tre thankfully for Humanity dude went 12 for 22 131 yards zero touchdowns and a pick and then for the remainder of the Season Watson went back and forth one game he'd give Browns fan some hope that he still got that potential to be special at him and then another you'd think Jeff Garcia was back under Center there was just no consistency with him and the 2022 season ended with a seven- win record with the usual guys in chub Garrett and Ward being good but that's about all there was to report and now we entered the 2023 season where the biggest change in Cleveland was the hiring of defensive coordinator Jim Schwarz and I know I haven't really mentioned the coordinators that much but Jim would really just completely mod the hell out of this Browns defense in one season as they would become easily the most ferocious unit this season when they were healthy and pairing that alongside a truly Elite Olaf as long as deshun Watson was okay this Browns team was looking like they were going to be maybe great but like I said the whole season would come down to one thing does deshun Watson still know how to play football and funny enough for for the second year in a row it was the same thing he'd play a few good games here and there then he'd play some absolutely terrible games throw some horrible balls and then he'd get hurt and honestly I'd love to say that DeShaun Watson is just terrible now but the fact is there still isn't really a large enough sample size I mean I'm pretty sure he's bad but I'm not confident enough to say that and right before he suffered a season ending shoulder injury vers Baltimore in that second half versus the Ravens he played pretty much the best he's played all year long so I don't even know what to say with him anymore and to me Deshawn Watson's confusing season in 2023 just added to the tragedy of the 2023 Browns on one hand their season was very successful they actually made the playoffs again thanks to Joe flacko and the defense but got pummeled by CJ Str and with DeShawn Watson trade Graphics getting thrown up all over Twitter but injuries just ruined this entire year Nick chub the most loyal running back a man could ask for suffered eight near career-ending injury in just week two Grant Del at Miss time Denzel Ward was hurt Deshawn Watson obviously Maurice Hurst was lost for the season jedric Wells was lost for the season 2 and in a world where Texans Deshawn Watson was under center for the Cleveland Browns and Nick chub and the other guys didn't just get horribly unlucky with injuries and you pair that along with the Jim Schwarz and Miles Garrett defensive player of the year- Le defense I firmly believe the Cleveland Browns could have had a Super Bowl run if you've watched some of my other content I'm pretty sure I've said that statement before but only now do I realize it it's all part of the pain all of it although the Browns quarterback jersey may have ended with Baker Mayfield some people have it still going strong and if one thing's for certain the comedy Act is still going and maybe just maybe this is the Cleveland Browns attor Turtle fate I mean look at this board man look at this look at all the names I mean do you even remember all these guys Ty dmer Spurgeon wi Bruce grodkowski Brian Hoyer Brady Quinn Johnny Manzel there's so much failure here and if DeShaun Watson doesn't get his together on the field cuz off the field is just a lost cause it actually has potential to get wor so yeah ever since they've been reforged from Pure greed in 1999 they've been walking around the NFL Wasteland as a soulless husk a pinata for the rest of the league to push around and laugh at and as it's looking things may never ever change anyways if you like this video then subscribe because I got a lot of videos on the channel just like this one if you did like this video may I recommend the Patriots documentary I did a little while back it's got similar Tim length and it's pretty good trust me and also thanks to all my patreons for pledging a dollar it truly does mean a lot and I have a lot more planned in the future so feel free to join the community if you want and anyways until next time

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Length: 118min 7sec (7087 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2024