CLEVELAND, Ohio -- I asked Dennis Manoloff this question at the end of our postgame podcast today. Now I want to know what our readers think: Is this the worst Browns team since 1999? Are they worse than the 1999 edition?

It seems crazy, considering just how bad things were in '99. That team, though, appeared to have some hope. Maybe we were wrong in hindsight, but there was hope.

Things got dark in the Mangini years, but there were some marquee wins. There was that night against Pittsburgh. They beat the Saints and Patriots in consecutive weeks and lost to the Jets in overtime.

The season after the playoff team was rough, mostly because of the disappointment of everything falling apart. The season after that, Butch Davis resigned.

Rob Chudzinski's lone team limped to the finish of a 4-12 season, but at least they were competitive in some games. Even New England needed a little help to beat them by a point.

I could go on. Really, in the end, comparing bad with awful is just a mind-numbing, why do we keep watching experience, but I'm curious -- which team since they came back is the worst. This one? It has to be top three, at least for the moment.