After beating the Rams 34-10 and clinching the NFC South division title, the Arizona Cardinals won their first division crown since 1975.
Which team has now gone the most years without a division title? That's right, the Cleveland Browns. This season will make it 19 years since the Browns won a division title.
In those 19 years, 16 seasons (including this one), the Browns are 93-164. That is winning just about 36 percent of the games. In those 16 seasons, the Browns have gone through five head coaches and two interim coaches.
The team considered to be the Browns' top rival, Pittsburgh, has had just three head coaches over those 19 years. They're 180-115-1 in those 19 years, good for a 61 percent winning percentage.
Sad but true. I really never thought it could get worse than the 1999 and 2000 seasons…little did I know what we were in for…
The Browns have taken bad performance to new lows. I was wondering the last time the Browns were releveant. In the 80s they had a winning percentage of 53% and the 70s it was 50% (including playoff games). In the playoff games they are 4 and 11 over the past four DECADES. That's 27%. So for those of us over 40, the Browns have a winning percentage under 50% (45% actually) since 1970. That's a LOT of bad football. The average year is 7 and 9. We've got to "enjoy" 3 playoff games in the last 20 years. Why do people continue to support this train wreck of a team? No Super Bowl appeareances in their entire existence. The best thing to celebrate is losses in the AFC Championship games after 1964.
I was a huge RAC fan when he came to town, and I was a little nervous about all the hype at the beginning of the year. This year, this team got too full of themselves. After the Giants game, they should have been able to regroup and focus – instead, they seemed to start feeling they were deserving of the hype.
The missed tackles were horrible, but the offense is worse. Receivers who don't run their pattern if it's not heading their way? Playing not to lose – or just the feel that getting to the 30 is good enough for 3 points, so let's just stay here? But the ultimate is the play calling: ever heard of play action? Lewis up the middle for 1, Lewis up the middle for 2, throw. Except when the run worked (Lewis with a 5+ average), then the game plan turns to the air ?!? Then, get behind by 10 or so and throw throw throw. Could we mix it up? All of the commentators were raving about Tennesee's throw on 4th-and-1 – "brilliant". The key: they did it because their run is so good, who would think they would miz it up? You need to establish a running threat before this is a brilliant call!
The clock management and play calling has been beyond bad, and RAC seems to have lost control – it's a bunch of guys playing for their vacation. Get a head coach who will lay down the law. The title is right – it's a new measure of bad this year.
How much $$ will it take to get Cowher? Do it.