Cleveland Browns: In Holmgren we trust

I made a New Year's resolution this year that I would stop watching bad football.

I'm sure I will break that resolution August 11, 2012 - around the time the Cleveland Browns play their first exhibition season.

I can't ever remember being so invested in a football team and received so little. What's there to like about this football team:

• A team owner Randy Lerner who appears not to care
• A team President "the Big Show" Mike Holmgren who appears arrogant and out of touch to Browns fans
• A Head Coach Pat Shurmur who appears incompetent after several instances of wrong personnel groupings, bad clock management and play-calling.
• A quarterback Colt McCoy who was alarmingly inaccurate this season and looks like the Benny Hill Theme should be playing in the background whenever he scrambles.
• An offensive line that can't block
• A group of receivers who can't catch (league-high 42 dropped passes)
• A defense that doesn't stop the run and can't get off the field on 3rd down.
• An offense that averages a miniscule 14 points a game despite having Phil Dawson, one of the game's best kickers
• After missing out on Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III, the Browns may become so desperate, they may gamble on Texas A&M's Ryan Tannehill with the fourth pick of the NFL Draft.  

Stay the course
Clearly the team took a step back in 2011 but given the lockout, new coach and new players (26 of the 53-man roster that played against the Steelers in week 17 were not on the team last year) it should have been expected.

Holmgren and company should not be held accountable for the fact the Browns haven't won a playoff game since the 1994 season. They haven't won a playoff game on the road since 1969 and last won the championship 47 years ago.

He is responsible for a 9-23 record in his two seasons. Another 4-12 season in 2012 means the curtain should come down on the big show.