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Originally Posted by Palo
Couch was starting to play better and then his shoulder got wrecked if I recall.
He was the original starter for the "new" Browns, and just like Texans, and unlike the Panthers and Jaguars, they received little from the league to help get them started. Couch spent several years trying his best getting beat to hell behind terrible o-lines with little to no talent around him.
I guess the larger point was that they began life saddled with a #1 overall QB contract, which more or less ensured he made top 5 money at the position and was also locked up for many years, without enough talent around him for it to matter so they were ****ed for a half a decade from the jump after they reentered the league.