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“#Browns\u2019 turnaround is reason for Jets to have hope<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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When the 1-13 Jets play the Browns on Sunday in their home finale, they should look across the field at their opponent and see hope for themselves.<\/p>\n

The Browns were 0-16 in 2017. Yet they enter Sunday\u2019s game<\/a> with a 10-4 record, are a virtual guarantee to make the playoffs and still have an outside chance to win the AFC North.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of progress in a little time for a Cleveland franchise that \u2014 much like the perception the Jets are tagged with (10 years removed from their last playoff app<\/a>earance) \u2014 was considered a black hole.<\/p>\n

Is there a Jets fan on the planet who wouldn\u2019t sign up for being in the position the Browns are currently in two seasons from now?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat says a couple things,\u2019\u2019 former Jets general<\/a> manager and current ESPN analyst Mike Tannenbaum told The Post this week when asked about the resurgent Browns. \u201cOne is that maybe they were a little bit closer than people perceived. Some of those games the Browns were in [in 2017] were one-possession games, so close.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now, they\u2019ve made a couple good decisions and the quarterback [Baker Mayfield] got better. They brought [head coach Kevin] Stefanski in, [offensive line coach] Bill Callahan in and have a better offensive line. A combination of all those things and you can turn things around quickly, because our sport is built inherently for teams to be in the middle, 8-8.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The Jets, 9-point underdogs to beat the Browns, are two more losses from finishing 1-15 for the second time in their history, and the rebuild appears daunting with a new coaching staff needed, uncertainty at quarterback and a roster that\u2019s simply not good enough.<\/p>\n

Tannenbaum, though, does not believe the Jets are light years away.<\/p>\n

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Baker Mayfield against the Jets last season.<\/figcaption>
Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIf you just start with the last two months \u2014 they played the Patriots at MetLife very close, that game was a really competitive, a one-score game to the end,\u2019\u2019 Tannenbaum said. \u201cLook at the Raiders game [a 31-28 loss in the final seconds]. Obviously, they had a reasonably good chance to win that game. And, they just beat a good Rams team on the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the cupboard is not bare by any stretch.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Nor was that of the Browns, who have flourished under the leadership of Stefanski, a head coach who seems to have pushed all the right buttons.<\/p>\n

Stefanski was in Minnesota running the Vikings offense while the Browns were toiling at 0-16.<\/p>\n

Asked how daunting a task rebuilding from 0-16 appeared, Stefanski, in his first year in Cleveland having inherited a team that went 6-10 last year, said, \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to go there because I wasn\u2019t here then. But I can tell you everything we\u2019ve done since I got here, and all that was taking it one day at a time and building this thing meticulously in terms of scheme and personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen with Andrew Berry coming aboard and taking the reins [as general manager], what he\u2019s done is bring in the right people,\u2019\u2019 Stefanski continued. \u201cWe brought in good football players and we brought in good people, hired a coaching staff I felt really strongly about.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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