Hurry Up, Wait and Be Patient with Browns

The predictions are coming faster and louder that the NFL lockout will be ending in the next couple of weeks.  That will mean that training camps will happen. The pre-season will happen. Free agency will happen.  Then the regular NFL season will happen.  What does it really mean for the Browns though with their development timeline?  The horror stories have already been written about how much further behind the Browns are from everyone else because they are a team in transition both on the roster and with the brand new coaching staff with new offensive and defensive schemes.  None of this guarantees that the Browns will have an awful year this year, but it probably means another year of patience. I know patience is a tough thing to preach since there hasn’t been any real good fortune since 1999.  Logically though, it is only fair to restart the clock every time a giant change comes to pass in the Browns organization.  Obviously it would be nice to reduce the number of giant ch...