DATELINE BEREA: On the heels of Browns owner Jimmy Haslam firing Head Coach Mike Pettine and General Manager Ray Farmer, Jimmy drops a big A-bomb by announcing that Sashi Brown has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Football Operations AND that Brown will have the FINAL SAY ON THE 53 MAN ROSTER and MAKE DRAFT PICKS. To be painfully honest, my first response was, “who the f@#% is Sashi Brown?!” Then I discovered that his area of “expertise” is in corporate law and salary cap related matters. So let me get this straight . . . we’ve got a combination bean counter and business lawyer making football decisions – which is something that he has absolutely ZERO EXPERIENCE DOING.

But wait, it gets worse . . . The GM to be hired will – according to Haslam – report directly to Sashi Brown, but the Head Coach to be hired will – according to Haslam – report directly to Jimmy Haslam. Not only that, but the potential Head Coach hire will likely be required to have certain members of the current coaching staff on his staff. That’s going to drastically reduce the number of qualified candidates to fill the position.

So what we now have in the inner circle of football operations decision making are the following people . . .

Jimmy Haslam – Owner

Dee Haslam – Owner’s wife

Alec Scheiner – Team President

Sashi Brown – VP of Football Operations

Head Coach to be named later

General Manager to be named later

Jimmy comes off as an eccentric owner that cares only about making money who has this delusional vision of all these people working together in complete harmony singing folk songs from the 1960’s while eating s’mores and drinking Kool-Aid around the campfire.

So what are you saying, Wunkle.  Let me put it in as simple terms as I can . . . The Cleveland Browns will continue being the embarrassment of the entire NFL for a minimum of the next five seasons. Folks, I didn’t think it was possible; but the owner of your beloved Cleveland Browns has just succeeded in making this organization an even bigger cluster-f@#% than any of us could’ve possibly imagined.

Where is the strong leadership in this organization? Where is the one who’s going to change the culture of losing in the locker room? Who is going to hold the players on the roster accountable for their actions?

And then there’s the roster. Alex Mack will likely opt out of his contract and Joe Thomas is contemplating doing the same because he’s sick of the losing and sick of re-booting after a couple seasons. The Johnny Manziel circus is packing up the trucks and is about to leave town and Joe Haden’s career could be in jeopardy due to concussion issues. Somebody just put a bullet through my head and put me out of my misery because we as Browns fans deserve far better than what this organization has done since 1999 and is about to do for years to come. Bend over, Browns fans, here it comes again.