It all falls on the owner

[muskiesfan]

Mike Brown definitely knows how to make money. Financially, the man is not stupid at all. He cries poor, but refuses to let the city or the public see the teams financial records. That's because of all of those years he was fielding a subpar product, he was raking in money. People try to use the excuse that this is the Brown family's only source of income which is why they are more money conscious. None of that is true. With the league's profit sharing, the Brown family is guaranteed profit every season no matter what. There's no motivation for Brown to use all of his resources to win a title because he's going to make profit regardless of the season's outcome.

That's what makes all of this even worse. While we're still sitting on almost $13m in cap space, we could be at least attempting to bring in OLine help. As the trade deadline neared, he could've traded some of his coveted (cheap) draft picks for OLine help. Instead, a there was a total clusterf*ck with the McCarron trade with Cleveland.

This franchise will continue to suffer as long as the Brown family is in charge. As long as the entire goal of the franchise is to bring in revenue instead of winning, there's no real hope other than catching lightning in a bottle.