Obviously this is what seems like the last running of the bulls for Cleveland Browns’ head coach Freddie Kitchens. Furthermore, this should be the final month as Kitchens’ head-coaching tenure in Cleveland.
Recently, Kitchens made the decision to wear a ‘Pittsburgh Started It’ t-shirt in public. Equally important, Kitchens said after Sunday’s game that the t-shirt had nothing to do with the subsequent loss; and he would wear it again. Also, he pointed out that he wore a jacket over the shirt. Of course – when the internet realizes you wore the shirt – the fact you wore a jacket over it is of little value.
Freddie Kitchens on wearing the “Pittsburgh started it” T-Shirt: pic.twitter.com/vKYoVbcZDh
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) December 1, 2019
While hearing the Pittsburgh Steelers talk about it in the wake of Sunday’s 20-13 win over the Browns, one may believe Kitchens did himself no favors. Here is Steelers’ guard Ramon Foster’s thoughts on it:
“I know that our coach never would have done anything like that. Why throw gas? When you do something like that, you throw your players in harm’s way. He’s not on the field. You throw your players in harm’s way when you do stuff like that with a vengeance. And I hate that for them.”
Foster is right. This was an easy game to sit back and look at beforehand, and know what would happen. Here you have two organizations that do things in completely different ways. It mattered little that the Steelers were starting their third string quarterback. Indeed, this was a game the Browns have been losing for two decades, and one the Steelers have found a way to win for two decades.
After the opening kick-off, the Browns did little to prove they have changed as an organization. Now they will be left to once again pick up the pieces and wonder what went wrong. This was supposed to be the most talented Cleveland team in a number of years. Instead, they will go largely unremembered other than for small and petty incidents like this.
