I'll bite. Thanks for adding, by the way.
There is a conversation about the future of the Browns and some people, and I didn't even mention you, just play the skeet-shooter role. It doesn't add to the conversation because it is different than having dissenting opinions; it is just poking in to piss on the fire.
Basically, for example, this thread was created by MoFlo to discuss the landscape of the AFC North moving forward. We're well aware of what the Browns did and didn't do last season, Chris. The turnover of the front office that you happened to mention is happening division-wide on the ROSTERS as well. Ergo, it is a reasonable expectation that the Browns (and Bengals) could make strides in the AFC North because, as MoFlo mentioned in the first post, the Steelers and Ravens are losing valuable pieces while the Browns add valuable pieces.
What difference can be made next year with this kind of movement? Well, we're not sure. What we do know is that there is a ton of turnover in AFC North rosters, which doesn't happen very often at all. I mean, James Harrison, Ed Reed and Ray Lewis are about to be out of the division forever. This isn't a mundane off-season by any account. So yes, you can keep pointing a finger at last year's record without going further, but it really doesn't add much here.