As the Browns start the offseason, there’s time for reflection on the 2023 season, and arrangement for what’s to come in 2024.
So, as we start this offseason, we opened up the mailbag and replied many of your questions.
I am pondering in the event that a misfortune within the playoffs will presently settle the contention of permitting a player to sit or the coach to sit a player on the final game of the season? Does it not make sense presently to play your group within the final season amusement in arrange to keep them warm and prepared for the playoff amusement, Houston did that, and what was their result? – BG, Parma, MI
It doesn’t very settle the contention since knowledge of the past is 20-20 on this circumstance. This is often as it were the estimation since they misplaced to the Texans. Think approximately the flipside – on the off chance that they had won, there would be laud for resting players and having them arranged for the playoffs.
What in case key players were harmed within the final normal season diversion and incapable to play within the playoffs? That would have changed the considered resting players for the diversion against the Bengals — particularly within the setting of how numerous wounds the Browns dealt with all through the whole season.
There’s no right reply as we have seen year after year around the league. It’s a choice that coaches and players ought to stand by no matter the result. However, I do not think it’s reasonable to draw a conclusion exclusively based on the comes about of the amusement since the contention effortlessly goes either way.
HC Kevin Stefanski tended to this idea in his end-of-season press conference on Jan. 14.
“You just go with the data that’s accessible to you in those decisions,” Stefanski said. “I think it’s continuously subordinate on where you’re within the future. Where are you from a wellbeing point of view, those are the sort of things you’re continuously considering approximately.”
How’s Scratch Chubb doing from that horrendous damage? – Naz Ellis, Coralville, IA
He’s proceeding to advance. Stefanski said amid his end-of-season press conference that Chubb is doing well in his recuperation and rehab handle.
“I do not have an upgrade other than to say he’s doing incredible, he’s advancing,” Stefanski said. “He’s doing everything he’s gathered to do, in case not more so. We’ll see how it goes.”
Official bad habit president of football operations and common chief Andrew Berry included on Jan. 22 that whereas Chubb is still within the early stages of his rehab prepare, he has been awed with how Chubb has assaulted his rehab from the starting. He shared a story that typified that opinion.
When the Browns were in LA for their Week 13 matchup against the Rams, Berry saw Chubb within the player suite strolling without his bolsters.
“And I was like, ‘Nick, are you being stubborn?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it really feels beautiful good.’ I was like, ‘Nick, in case you’re gathered to be on your bolsters, be on your crutches,'” Berry reviewed. “Well, we come back from the trip and after that the following day, Dr. (James) Voos, they had put out this tape since they were planning to just test where he was and they’re like, ‘Oh, no, officially, he doesn’t ought to be on his bolsters anymore.’ He had strolled the entire thing. It was ordinary. And I share that, he’s still exceptionally early in his rehab prepare, but the tenacity at which he has assaulted his rehab. He did everything in his control this year to recuperate himself, but too make a positive affect with the group and it’s finished.”
