The Cleveland Browns accomplished their newest disappointing season on Saturday with a 35-10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, dropping them to 3-14 and one other last-place end within the AFC North.
The Browns aren’t any strangers to terrible seasons at this level, however Myles Garrett, their finest participant, made a shocking comparability to what it appears like.
He stated the season was an excellent greater disappointment than the 0-16 season in 2017.
“Most likely a extra disappointing season as a result of what we anticipated out of ourselves,” Garrett stated within the postgame information convention. “What we had constructed right here earlier than. That’s how I take it.”
It’s arduous to argue with that logic.
Whereas 0-16 is objectively the worst season, that Browns group had completely zero expectations and was in the course of an in depth rebuild the place shedding for draft place was the one expectation.
Garrett was a rookie on that group.
The Browns had been a playoff group a 12 months in the past and got here into this season hoping to compete for the division title. That they had an elite protection in 2023 and had been hoping quarterback Deshaun Watson may bounce again. As a substitute of doing that, they fully failed throughout the board.
The protection took a step backward regardless of one other elite 12 months from Garrett, whereas the offense had to make use of 4 totally different quarterbacks and by no means discovered any consistency.
Now they go into subsequent season with the identical points at quarterback and a group stuffed with holes on either side of the ball. The one optimistic to come back out of it’s the truth they’re locked right into a top-three decide and will probably get the No. 1 decide within the 2025 NFL Draft, relying on Sunday’s outcomes.
