Browns start hearing calls for Sean Payton at head coach

After high expectations for the 2022 season, fans of the Cleveland Browns have quickly grown impatient with the coaching staff.

We are only six weeks into the 2022 season and things are turning south quickly for Kevin Stefanski and the Cleveland Browns. After multiple weeks of the defense struggling but the offense performing well, both sides of the ball looked terrible in a lopsided loss to the New England Patriots.

At 2-4, one could argue with just a few breaks (or better defense), this team could easily be 4-2.  The defense continues to give up huge runs, and Jacoby Brissett looked like the journeymen quarterback that he is with two costly turnovers.

Coming into the season everyone knew it was going to be an uphill battle with Deshaun Watson suspended for the first 11 games, but now fans are growing impatient quickly and are calling for jobs.

Can the Browns actually upgrade coaches?

The name everyone is saying is Sean Payton. After Drew Breese retired the writing was on the wall that the New Orleans Saints would be in rebuild mode, and Payton wanted no part of that. The Browns would be slightly intriguing with Watson, but this defense in the back seven is almost in rebuild mode as well.

It’s easy to get impatient with a coach when things aren’t going well, but moving on from Stefanski would be one of the craziest decisions the Browns have ever made, which is saying something. This is a guy who should be 4-2 with a backup quarterback and a completely overrated defense.

What actually needs to be done?

Let’s not worry about firing anyone. Joe Woods (defensive coordinator) and Mike Priefer (special teams coordinator) are on thin ice in my opinion, but let’s look at where the issue really lies. The Browns need to re-evaluate this roster.

Players like Denzel Ward, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Grant Delpit, John Johnson, Jordan Elliott, and Jacob Phillips have all been massively overrated. Fans want to act like these are top-tier starts in the league, when truthfully some would struggle to start for most teams in the league.

Ward is the exception here. I’m not saying he’s a bad player, but he certainly hasn’t lived up to that massive contract extension he just signed.

The bottom line, is Payton isn’t coming to this mess in Cleveland, and changing coaches isn’t going to make bad players good. It starts at the top with Andrew Berry who needs to take a deep look at this roster.

He has made huge strides in the last two weeks releasing the first batch of guys he personally drafted, but there is certainly more of that to come.

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