This series is strictly looking at the previous offseason and judging Andrew Berry’s performance there. He won’t get credit for having a player like Myles Garrett or Amari Cooper in a position room because that wasn’t a change this last offseason. We are focused on the additions and subtractions via free agency or the draft. We will also look at extensions if they have actively kept someone around. The series will run every other day going position by position.
Let us start by looking at how Andrew Berry has built the Cleveland Browns’ quarterback room over the previous few years:
It was borderline miraculous for the Cleveland Browns to win 11 games with the amount of injuries the team endured this season, but head coach Kevin Stefanski determined it was time to make changes on his offensive staff as the team looks ahead to 2024. The harrowing circumstances helped to illuminate some of the problems the team had on the offensive side of the ball and gives the Browns a chance to find the best coaches to teach the offense this team intends to run moving forward.
This isn’t a time to spike the football, celebrating the exit of assistant coaches. Offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, running backs coach Stump Mitchell and tight ends coach T.C. McCartney provided value to the organization over the past four years. helping them to get to the postseason twice and the team’s first playoff victory since 1994. Even as the team hopes to improve, men who helped pave the way here lost their jobs. That’s an unfortunate aspect of this business. And as the Browns continue towards becoming a consistent organization, this is how it could go.
They will lose people because they are hired by other organizations, such as was the case last year when Drew Petzing and Israel Woolfolk were hired away by the Arizona Cardinals. Petzing became the offensive coordinator and Woolfolk became the quarterbacks coach.
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