Will the Cleveland Browns WIN A SUPER BOWL in the next five seasons?

How far away are the Cleveland Browns from winning a Super Bowl? UCSS reacts to the Cleveland Browns not being named as one of the NFL teams that can win a Super Bowl in the next five seasons by Sports Illustrated.


Five years is an eternity in the NFL. With the average playing career under that number, the majority of the league fully turns over in that span. Consider that a stray thought for July, but the reason I’m bringing this up now is because it’s been exactly five seasons since I asked my MMQB colleagues which teams they thought would win the next five Super Bowls. Which means it’s time for America’s true pastime: dragging people for things they said on the internet!

I asked the question in February 2019, shortly after the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII. You may remember that as the season Patrick Mahomes won an MVP award as a first-year starter, and the conference title games were swung by Dee Ford being offsides and Nickell Robey-Coleman not getting flagged for pass interference against the New Orleans Saints.

At the time, my colleagues (and we’ve had plenty of roster turnover as well) were smart to say that the Kansas City Chiefs’ day was coming. Overwhelmingly. Eight out of 10 people picked them to win a title, and six people actually picked them to win two. It seems obvious in hindsight—especially because they won three—but projecting multiple championships for a QB who had played one season and a coach who had a reputation as a guy who couldn’t win the big game was pretty bold at the time, no matter how many people agreed. It’s really hard to win a Super Bowl, and who knows what can happen in five years. (Look no further than the fact that the players who joined Mahomes in SI design whiz Bryce Wood’s graphic accompanying the piece were Andrew Luck and Baker Mayfield.)


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