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Cleveland defensive end eager to hear the team’s plans to turn things around in 2025.
It is not spilling any state secrets to say that the 2024 season has not gone as expected for the Cleveland Browns.
The team opened the campaign on September 8 with visions of another playoff run, only for things to begin to unravel in an opening-day loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
Fast forward through just three wins in 14 games, a historically bad offense — first with quarterback Deshaun Watson and then Jameis Winston - another season-ending injury to running back Nick Chubb, and an overall sense of doom and gloom and the situation can, at times, feel as dire as it has been in a long time.
There are just three games left on the schedule and then the Browns enter another offseason of uncertainty. Who will be back? Who will be replaced? And, most importantly, just what is general manager Andrew Berry going to do about the quarterback situation?
Those are just some of the questions that everyone will be seeking answers to, and the person who could be first in line is defensive end Myles Garrett, who is closing out his eighth season in Cleveland.
Garrett has seen the highs — two playoff appearances — and definitely the lows — a winless rookie season under head coach Hue Jackson.
And as he looks to the future, Garrett wants to know just what the plan is to finally get the franchise on track, as he said on Friday when questioned about what comes next (quote via a team-provided transcript):
“First of all, I want to win and I want the Browns to be able to put me and us in position to win. And I’m not trying to rebuild. I’m trying to win right now. I want that to be apparent when the season’s over and we have those discussions. I want them to be able to illuminate that for me, illustrate that for me, so that can be something I can see in the near future. Cause that’s all we want to do.
“I want to stay loyal to a team that shows loyalty to me and faith in me by drafting me. But we have to do, at the end of the day, what’s best for us. So, if we have that alignment where this is something that is still possible in the near future, winning, going deep in the playoffs, putting a great defense out there, time of possession, running game, offense, getting all the guys back.
“And I think that would really keep my mind at rest, keep me settled. And not just mine, a lot of the guys on the defense, the D-line, around the team. But we have to continue to take strides forward, not just as players, but from top down.”
Garrett went on to say, as he has continuously, that he is happy in Cleveland and wants to remain on...
