Where Does The Browns Offense Go From Here?

Kevin Stefanski, Ken Dorsey, and Deshaun Watson will all play a role in fixing the Browns offense. What path should they follow?

The funny thing about an NFL season is that you can say it's too early to draw serious conclusions and then, a week later, it's too late for a team to change their fortunes. In a 17 game schedule, the sun goes down fast on teams that can't adapt and find their way to some wins quickly.

Kevin Stefanski has excelled at steadying the ship through his four-plus years in charge of the Browns. He doesn't overreact and stays focused on the next game, not the big picture. It's one of his strengths as a head coach. It's also why I don't expect to see any big changes from the Browns this week or any time soon. The team under Stefanski and Andrew Berry has been slow to make big changes.

They were a year late on firing Joe Woods, arguably a year late in moving on from Alex Van Pelt, we all remember the pain of Baker Mayfield’s last starts in Cleveland, and they now look like they were a year late on an overdue offensive line overhaul.

In general, if you are expecting the Browns to panic and overreact, you will be disappointed. Deshaun Watson, in my opinion, is unlikely to be benched at any point this season for performance-based reasons. This organization has shown too much patience across too many seasons to think they won't see this thing all the way through. Perhaps they reach a breaking point, and perhaps that breaking point is sooner than most would expect, but their track record suggests a slow, methodical approach to this problem.

As a result, the question I find most relevant is not when the team will bench Watson and open that big ol’ can of worms. It's what direction the offense takes the rest of this year with Watson at the helm.