Where are Cleveland Browns heading to? – NFL Feature
It was not the start that the Cleveland Browns managers and coaches would have hoped for to the 2012, season given they needed to make an impression on the field in front of the new owner to see if he wanted to retain them in the longer run.
The team has been completely lost since outset of the season and on the way has lost everything. It ended up as a disaster, a disaster that took away even what was achieved a year earlier.
Some of the players are frustrated to have been hearing about the so-called rebuilding of the team almost every year regularly for about a decade or so. Yet all those seasons have ended on the same dismal note. The pressure is so much on some of the players
that they have started feeling a sense of guilt of overall team failure.
A number of players have often made mention of the so-called rebuilding drive, saying they have become sick of hearing it during all those previous years but the team as a matter of fact is still struggling. They said they have almost become tired and sick
of being part of a losing side for all those years and that has taken a heavy toll on profile of each player.
Arrival of new head coach Pat Shurmur in 2011 gave birth to fresh hopes of revival and comeback by the Browns, and to an extent the coach proved on the field that he had a different strategy altogether for the team.
His second year has ruined all hopes, though. The only thing that the team has been consistent with is ruining of offence leaders’ careers. For about last 13 years, the team has tried and failed as many as 16 quarterbacks, and all of them ended up ruing
their pro career prospects.
It is the team that boasts their talent and potential at the time of arrival of these young and aspirant football players, as they did about this year’s signee rookie Brandon Weeden, and at the end they themselves discard the youngsters and try someone else.
With little help from within and outside, these leaders run around the field entire season and end up as backups on a permanent basis after not finding a sense of direction in their rookie years.
The only point that they can have to their favour or justification is that it is not just them, the story of other players is almost same at the rest of the positions.
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