CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns tore themselves apart. Fans of the Browns can't do the same.

There were two Browns teams this season -- Team Sashi and Team Hue -- but now that Jimmy Haslam made his choice to stick with his coach and fire his general manager a week ago, the battle within the team has continued to rage through at least part of the fanbase.

Who screwed things up more? Hue Jackson coaching the players or Sashi Brown picking the players? That's an awful way to follow your team.

Two things should be clear to fans right now.

1. This is the bottom. It can't and won't get worse.

2. You don't have to decide who you blame more, but you do have to live with the results of each. So Sashi-Hue fights aren't getting you anywhere. And again, this is as bad as it gets.

Snarky attacks about which GM picked which current decent player, thanking Phil Savage for Joe Thomas; Tom Heckert for Josh Gordon; Ray Farmer for Christian Kirksey, Duke Johnson and Joel Bitonio; and Brown for Myles Garrett, David Njoku and Emmanuel Ogbah, isn't getting you anywhere.

They're all Browns. No matter how they got here, they're yours now. And the guys who picked them are gone.

There should be no more us vs. them within the organization or within the fanbase. You don't have to choose a side between analytics or football traditionalists, because analytics lost. But its influence remains on this roster and in the picks for the 2018 draft.

So stop acting like the Browns are two different groups, even if new GM John Dorsey added to that division with some silly and unnecessary comments Thursday.

You might love the old Browns -- what you grew up with, the team your family has rooted for, the stars of the past, the uniforms, the colors, the feeling, the memories. Realize there is something to grab onto with the current Browns, and you don't have to get in a fight to do it.

Don't get caught up with the Sunday results. You have three more games to get through. Let the national media mock the Browns. It's OK, because it may be worth it.

Follow these steps to get you through the rest of the year and the offseason while grasping the potential of your team.

1. Trust new GM John Dorsey for now. His track record isn't perfect, but it is a track record. He's going to pound his chest as a football guy just because Brown was cast as not a football guy, and every sports hire is the opposite of the guy fired. But he seems pretty sharp.

Unfortunately, he's taking unnecessary shots to protect Jackson and making preemptive excuses for himself, saying Thursday on a radio show, "The guys who were here before, that system, they didn't get real players."

That's counterproductive. Of course they got some real players. This is just stoking another fight for no reason. But you can be better than Dorsey. Don't fall for his knee-jerk "football guy" reaction.

2. Assume Jackson can't ruin this team. If he sticks around for 2018, as Haslam has promised, he'll sink or swim. If the Browns show real progress with Jackson at the helm, don't begrudge him that. If they don't, he'll be fired, and they'll get a better coach. They will, because this roster has talent and good coaches will be interested. But don't root against Jackson just because you were a Sashi person, because that leads to rooting against your team. And there's no reason to do that.

3. Don't dwell on the players who are gone: Yes, maybe the Browns could have signed Mitchell Schwartz. But player movement is part of this league. The constant antagonism about every player who once was a Brown and now is playing well elsewhere is mind-blowing. Taylor Gabriel and his 30 catches for 342 yards in Atlanta is not the the difference between the Browns being a playoff team and not.

4. Enjoy the pieces in place: Dorsey says the Browns need more players, and they do. But don't turn a blind eye to the foundation here. This young defense, led by Garrett, Ogbah, Kirksey, Danny Shelton, Joe Schobert, Jabrill Peppers and veterans like Jamie Collins and Jason McCourty has a lot of potential. And it's been hit hard by injuries. There's a foundation there.

There's also a foundation on the offensive line. Skill players are needed, obviously, despite the presence of Coleman, Gordon and Njoku. But add some top talent there, and there's hope.

5. Understand a quarterback is coming: The quarterback play was as bad at it can get this year, as Deshone Kizer struggled, the receivers were awful and Jackson did little with the gameplan to help a rookie.

But the last GM got fired for not getting a quarterback. Dorsey will get one. Whether it's Josh Rosen, Baker Mayfield or Sam Darnold, the Browns are going to take a quarterback at the top of this draft and have a true young talent at the position like they haven't had since Tim Couch. And this quarterback will have more around him than Couch did.

Don't fear a trade down. Maybe the Browns will add a veteran as well. But quarterback play cost the Browns at least a couple wins this season. And hope is coming there, guaranteed.

6. Don't get in a fight over Kizer's long-term potential: The Browns should and will hang onto Kizer and continue to develop him. But there's no way you could look at his play this year and use it to pass on a top-10 QB in 2018.

So if you're a Kizer backer, great. He stays, he competes, and if he does develop into a winning starting quarterback, fantastic.

If you're sick of Kizer, fine. A new young QB is coming, and Kizer will become a bonus, not the guy to rely upon.

But there's no reason for Browns fans who are pro-Kizer and anti-Kizer to fight. He's a very young QB with a big arm, accuracy issues and some both good and bad pocket instincts who was thrown into a tough spot with little help and poor coaching. He made some killer mistakes but also flashed some ability.

Keep him. Develop him. But don't rely on him. All fans should agree on that.

7. Understand this was a plan: This will be easy for some fans and impossible for others, especially those who refute every point about the Browns with 1-28.

The front office wasn't worried about winning in 2016 and 2017. So that contributed to how bad the record is. Jackson also didn't coach this team very well. That contributed to it.

But whether you agree with the front office plan or not, it happened. The Browns tanked. Maybe you hated it. But you have to admit the truth so you can move on.

Much of this 1-28 was on purpose. So it's possible it could turn quickly.

Certainly, everyone expected more of an improvement this season. But if the Browns were 5-8 or 4-9 or 3-10 right now instead of 0-13, really, how would that make your life better?

It would make the draft picks worse.

So understand what this was. Understand this part of it is almost over. Understand there are pieces of a foundation in place.

And even if the new GM doesn't get it yet, understand there is only one Browns.