A comical theme that rears its head often in NFL circles is recency bias. A team may be 0–11, but a six-game win streak toward the end of the season seems to make an owner think twice. Perhaps teams like the New York Giants wanted to not fall into this trap, canning their coach, Brian Daboll, after a miserable 2–8 start.
The Browns chose to stick it out with Kevin Stefanski throughout an equally difficult season, and he just may be engineering the turnaround that leads to him extending his stay in Cleveland by at least another year.