The 2024 Cleveland Browns must have found the power switch and turned the power back on at the famous Factory of Sadness which produced a whole 3 wins this past season. The only good thing to come out of it was getting the 2nd pick in the upcoming NFL Draft. With a front office led by GM Andrew Berry or is it Paul DePodesta (nobody can or will give a clear answer on)? It's safe to say either way nobody was real confident they were going to hit on the pick come draft time anyway. So the disastrous season ends, the day the players clean out their lockers and jump on the first plane out of football Siberia, Myles Garrett talks with the media and leaves a small tidbit about wanting to know what this franchise plans to do to fix a team that was just a season removed from making the playoffs with a top tier defense and then 39 year old, off-the-couch, 5th different QB Joe Flacco leading the offense. Seems fair right? The best player on your football team, a captain on defense, Defensive Player of the Year, franchise cornerstone and easily one of the best players in the entire NFL just wants to know the plan moving forward, and IF that plan included a full-on rebuild he wanted no part of he would explore the idea of requesting a trade.
The following day after Andrew Berry held the usual season ending press conference he was asked about the comments from Garrett and whether that meeting was going to take place. Which Berry gave his usual very long-winded, roundabout non-answer, he affectionately said Garrett would be going from "Cleveland to Canton". This would become a classic example of words coming back to bite you in the ass. Even after the press conference you came out of it assuming a meeting did happen and things were smoothed over and nothing was really going to come out of it. Fast-forward to Senior Bowl weekend, Berry was asked if a meeting happened which he once again gave a very vague answer about only to reiterate his "Cleveland to Canton" statement from the season ending press conference.
The dust seemed to settle a little bit going into Pro Bowl weekend. I could go off on a whole other thing about what I think about the Pro Bowl but all I'll say is if you remember back in elementary at the end of the school year there would the "Field Day" activities, yeah that's where the NFL is at with Pro Bowl. So anyway, the Pro Bowl stuff happens, then the following Monday this bomb drops ...
Turns out this meeting happened with all of the other players meetings they have at the end of season, and whatever plans they discussed going forward were it led to Garrett saying he wants out.
So, from a fan standpoint we were led to think things got smoothed over somehow. That was very much not the case and was very much Andrew Berry and the dumpster fire Cleveland Browns mismanaging another situation, see Deshaun Watson if you want an example, and once again trying to control a narrative because they think their fanbase is a bunch of drunken idiots that doesn't know anything about football ... well that might actually be half right.
Myles was understandably upset about the season, he's 8 years into his career and has been a part of only 2 winning seasons and 3 rebuilds, he knows what these things look like and what is most likely to happen. He knows it, you know it, I know it, the rest of the NFL knows it. AB can sit there and tell everyone they are not trading Myles Garrett but at this point ... they're trading Myles Garrett.
At the end of the day you can't blame Myles and I don't think anyone really does. He watched Joe Thomas retire and go to the Hall of Fame and never even made the playoffs. Garrett knows he's on the path to the Hall of Fame, he knows regardless wherever he plays he's going to get the money. It's about winning and going to the Super Bowl, something which the Cleveland Browns are never serious about. They like to tell us that's the goal but if you really look at it they never are. Just as long as they fill the stadium, sell all the merchandise, give us all the Dawg Pound nostalgia from the 80's, and make the roster look good just enough to give us all the hope we could ask for.
Myles Garrett didn't let the Browns down, the Browns let Myles Garrett down.
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