The browns were shit because Kitchens lost the ability to call plays and lost all respect from his locker room. We got our shit run by the browns once last year and barely squeaked out in week 16. I am not saying that they will win the north by any means, I was speaking on the behalf of me projecting our losses.
The steelers defense is scary good. They almost made the playoffs without a qb. People forget that they were 20 times better of a team than us in 2018 they just blew it against the Saints. Not to say we should have lost to them in week 5, but there is no way we sweep them again this year.
We aren't a 14-2 roster. I don't underrate Lamar but it isn't realistic for him to not have a drop-off after one of the most dominate seasons ever. Like I said, I still think we are a 11-12 win team. And I am not pushing the panic button in the slightest, I am only saying it looks clearly like we are banking on the draft so we have to nail it. IE, we didn't do enough in FA to fix problems, EDC obviously is banking on the draft to replace talent, but for anyone expecting for us to make a huge fa splash, I understand the fear.
1. We definitely didn't watch the same week 16 game, because nothing about that game was a "squeaked out a win" kind of game. When you're up by double digits for basically the entirety of the second half, and your opponent does literally nothing well against you, you're not "squeaking out anything"
2. I don't really care if we're a 14-2 roster. We can be a 9-7 roster and still be competing for a Lombardi for all I care. It was obviously be incredibly difficult for a team that went 14-2 to actually improve on that record, which is why very few teams actually go 14-2 every year. Hell, the Patriots, the mother of all dynasties, lose 3-4 games or more most seasons.
As for the Steelers, I don't expect to sweep them. I don't expect to sweep the Browns either. A good year in the AFC North is 4-2, and that's when the division is less competitive. Go back and look at the division in the Harbaugh/Tomlin era... 5-1 or 6-0 division records are very rare.
3. We're banking on the draft because we always banking on the draft. If you were in the group expecting a "big splash", then I'd question why you were in that group to begin with, and what your reasoning was for being a part of that group.
Did people just roll out of bed and decide "o 2020 we're changing our entire organizational philosophy on how to build a roster"? LOL.
They looked you in the eyes just this offseason and told you they wanted to keep their own players. So where did you think the money was going to go?