Does Marvin teach it?

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(01-11-2016, 02:13 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Would you trade what the Bengals achieved under Marvin for what the Browns have done over the last 13 years?


Seriously, folks, other than the compulsive whiners on this board i don't think I could find another football fan anywhere in the country who would say that the Browns have it better because they won a playoff game 21 years ago.  

Of course I wouldn't trade it for the Browns.  Look, the Browns are irrationally bad.  So bad for so long that no modern-day NFL franchise can compare to their awfulness.  Let's just drop the Browns from any argument, because they are so amazingly bad that it does a disservice to the Bengals, and almost every other NFL franchise, to even compare them.

The Browns are PROOF that:

You can't build through the draft
You can't build through free-agency
Drafing a QB doesn't work
Getting a FA QB doesn't work
Hiring a new HC doesn't work
Keeping the old HC doesn't work
Hiring a HC with no experience doesn't work
Hiring a HC with experience doesn't work


NOTHING works in Cleveland.  Enough with the Browns.  Being better than the Browns means nothing.  We may as well give Andy Dalton a pass because he's better than Dan LeFevour and the Hamilton Tiger Cats.  If you can't make a point without using the Browns as evidence of something "bad" then you are no longer making a point.

THE BROWNS DON'T COUNT!!!!

I'm not even saying we should fire Marvin; I'm just saying that comparing any NFL team to the Browns is pretty much a cop out because the Browns are almost certainly much worse at everything than every other franchise. Right now all 31 other NFL teams are better, or better off than the Browns. It's a non-argument.