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 are not any strangers to terrible seasons at this level, however Myles Garrett, their greatest participant, made a surprising comparability to what it looks like.
He mentioned the season was a good greater disappointment than the 0-16 season in 2017.
“In all probability a extra disappointing season as a result of what we anticipated out of ourselves,” Garrett mentioned 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 crew had completely zero expectations and was in the midst of an in depth rebuild the place dropping for draft place was the one expectation.
Garrett was a rookie on that crew.
The Browns had been a playoff crew a yr 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 might bounce again. As an alternative of doing that, they utterly failed throughout the board.
The protection took a step backward regardless of one other elite yr from Garrett, whereas the offense had to make use of 4 completely different quarterbacks and by no means discovered any consistency.
Now they go into subsequent season with the identical points at quarterback and a crew filled with holes on each side of the ball. The one optimistic to come back out of it’s the reality 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.
