Last year at this time, the Cleveland Browns bandwagon was brimming with optimism about the playoffs and beyond.

Ten wins! Derek Anderson! Braylon Edwards! The hype was so prevalent, schedule-makers booked the Browns for three Monday Night games. There were perhaps the sexiest pick to do serious damage this season by sportswriters, including Peter King and Len Pasquarelli. (We looked at the schedule and smelled disaster; Norman Chad, not so much.)

And now they’re 4-10. It appeared to us as if Edwards hired an aggressive PR agency that put his handsome mug all over the place (including the infamous Costas show!). Terrible move. It inflated expectations and led people to believe he was destined for the most Moss-Owens stratosphere. Following another offensively-challenged loss Monday, the Browns have completely fallen apart, and an potentially-explosive offseason awaits:

* Anderson suffered an injury three weeks ago and was booed while being helped off the field
* Kellen Winslow got a staph infection, wound up in the hospital, and then feuded with management (in public!) over the cause of his illness
* Edwards has riffed twice this week about how the city doesn’t like him, and how people are mean to his family out in public
* Irate at Romeo’s coaching job, some fans have started a Cowher09 website that they hope will lead to Bill Cowher leaving his cushy CBS lair for the cold one in Cleveland

Let’s see - new coach, perhaps a new system, and who knows, maybe a new top WR and no more Winslow. You think Brady Quinn thought things would get this bad after he got the starting gig?