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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Kind of.... the Browns Belichick coached are really the Ravens now.
I know. It's like fake reality. It's even funnier because Brown's fans hate it because it reminds them that the lineage that actually carried the old lore is really somewhere else and Ravens fans hate it because they are associated with the Browns.In fact but not in record. The anger over the move led the NFL to declare that the Ravens, for record purposes, would be considered a new franchise (unlike, for example, the LA Chargers). The old stats stayed with CLE.
This should add some perspective to all the 'Belichick was a failure in Cleveland' nonsense.
Despite the Schottenheimer technicality, it's still funny how people point to BB's Cleveland years as proof he's not good considering he's still one of the best things that happened to them. (also to a much, much smaller degree...Hoyer)
That being said, if you're talking about the Browns last century, you're talking about the Ravens this century, and they've done just fine despite being some mfs.
You can still be a failure and have more coaching wins for that franchise than anyone else.
Although, if we're being honest, BB didn't coach this Browns franchise. He coached the one that is now the Baltimore Ravens and if you look at wins by coaches of that franchise, he is, indeed a failure.
And this is kind of the bigger thing. The Browns prior to the split where the Ravens moved to Baltimore were not the crap joke franchise that the current Browns are. This was a team that was making an winning playoff games even a couple years before Belichick got there and were respectable throughout most of the 80's.You can still be a failure and have more coaching wins for that franchise than anyone else.
Although, if we're being honest, BB didn't coach this Browns franchise. He coached the one that is now the Baltimore Ravens and if you look at wins by coaches of that franchise, he is, indeed a failure.