The Cleveland Browns have followed a familiar script in recent seasons.
The club finishes off a disappointing season and then sees — or if you prefer “allows” — a small handful of players to leave in free agency.
The new season begins and the cries start to resonate across Browns Town about all the players that “got away” from the team. Of course, that conveniently ignores that in almost every case those players contributed to the losing atmosphere, but such is the joy of Cleveland talk radio and Browns Twitter.
There is one person who truly got away, however, and that is John DeFilippo, who recently joined the Minnesota Vikings as offensive coordinator after spending the past two seasons as quarterback coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.