BEREA, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns coach Pat Shurmur, despite winning four of his last seven games to improve to 4-8, declined to predict what Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner will decide after the season.

"I don't want to talk about my future," he said. "I'm trying to make this the best Monday of the year, and I'm trying to get our team ready to play the Chiefs, and then after that, so on and so forth. I don't look at it that way, I really don't. I'm not taking any half-swings here. We'll just play it out and see what happens."

He appreciated Haslam's remarks last week that the team is on the right track and "very close" to being a contender, but isn't worried about those things yet.

"It's always good to hear good things," he said. "I do know this. What's important to me -- and it's very narrow-minded -- is this next game, period. And then whatever gets determined gets determined, but what I can control right now with this football team is what happens this week."

Some other quick highlights from Shurmur's press conference the day after the Browns defeated the Oakland Raiders:

• On the victory: "For the second week in a row we found a way to win a game that was hard-fought, and each game you find a way to win the game or lose the game. I'm happy for our guys."

• On cornerback Sheldon Brown: "Sheldon (Brown) for the most part I thought played extremely well. When you limit scoring like we did -- forget yardage, forget all of that stuff -- when you limit scoring in the meat of the game, that's the most important thing and we got turnovers."

• On the 94-yard drive: "In that drive Brandon (Weeden) was 5-for-6, we ran the ball effectively, and at the end of the game by putting the ball in the end zone, it creates a two-score game which actually changes it for the opponent. Anytime you do something once, then you become confident you can do it again."

• On if team has turned the corner, winning four of last seven: "I don't know about turning the corner, but we beat a quality opponent at home last week and we went on the road and won on the road. Now what we've got to do is try to build on that."

• On if he feels vindicated: "My concerns are for this team, and I really believe in this group we have. And I really believe that this is the foundation of something that can be really good. Some of the other stuff about me personally? What more can they say about me, right?"

• On Browns GM Tom Heckert: "Tom knows personnel. Last year, our team looked a lot different than it does this year, and we're finding way to improve, so we've got some impact players on this football team now that we didn't have two years ago. That's a good thing."

• On rookie receiver Josh Gordon: "He's big and he's fast and he can catch. Those are three things that let's all assume he was born with. The rest needs to be developed. He came here not in shape, he came here not knowing the offense, he came here not knowing our quarterback, he came here not knowing the tempo of this game, and all of that's been developed parallel. And I guess he came here not knowing what a grind this is for a player that wants to make an impact. And so he's making progress."