ESPN - Troy Blackburn comments on Bobby Hart signing

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(03-29-2019, 12:32 PM)Whatever Wrote: I would say that we should have made several playoff runs during the Marvin era based on talent.  The offense was absolutely loaded in the mid-late '00's.  You had Palmer, Chad, TJ, Henry, Rudi, that ridiculous OL, Reggie Kelly was basically an extra T he was so good at blocking.  Brat was a HORRIBLE OC, though.  He even said in an interview after he retired that everybody knew their playcalls but teams just didn't have enough talent to stop them. That group could have done a lot more with even a decent OC.  We definitely should have beaten SD and we should have beaten Pittsburgh if guys could have kept their heads on straight.  

The Og/Fisher draft was a disaster and created an avalanche of problems.  It also seemed that after Jay and Zim left town that the team struggled to find star players in the draft.  They drafted a ton of guys who are good enough to make rosters, but not guys that are going to be franchise cornerstones.

The defenses were generally bad in those years. We never really had that complete team until maybe 2015.

But, I know people hate hearing it, but all but like 4-5 other franchise's have won 5+ playoff games since we've last won 1. That means likely those franchise's have had rosters capable of making playoff runs more than 2-3 years over that span.

Of course, some teams like the worst of the worst Browns would look bad if you compared our regular season records to theirs. In the regular season, we  have been more successful than some of the teams in the league. But, even at that, it's remarkable that we haven't been able to win a playoff game. Seattle did it when they were 7-9.