If there was no salary cap?

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(09-02-2019, 12:34 AM)NKURyan Wrote: Cleveland, meanwhile, would be thrilled just to finish at .500.

Yes, the Bengals and Lions and Browns all haven't won a playoff game since the early 90s, but the Browns have changed ownership and the Bengals and the Lions are still owned and run by two very old people who inherited the team.  I'm not saying the Browns are going to win it all, but there was a time when the Saints and Patriots were god awful franchises before changing owners and getting things together.

Again, not sold on the Browns but they've changed owners, hired a GM with a proven track record, and done some other stuff that at least separates them from the Bengals and Lions.  Whether it pays off or not is the question, but it's not business as usual there, so who knows. If they still had Sashi as their GM and Hue as their HC and the 2019 version of Jake Delhomme at QB I'd be more confident they were going 2-14 again.