A draw play! On fourth down! With nine yards to go! That’s exactly the sort of inexplicable call sticks to a coach in the aftermath of a loss, and can earn him a reputation as a guy who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. It’s to Kitchens’s credit that he was able to come right out and admit how bad the call was during his postgame presser:

Kitchens wasn’t satisfied with self-flagellating over that particular boner, though. He was also asked why, with his team down near the opponents’ goal line with under a minute to play and armed with three timeouts, he never gave Chubb a chance to run the ball in for what could have been the game-tying score. “I should have ran it one time,” he told reporters. “I should have, that’s why I’m kicking myself in the ass for it right now.”

There’s something charming about an NFL coach who is willing to stand at the podium and tell everyone about all the specific moments in which he fucked up, but this will only be endearing for so long. Nobody needs to be reminded about the hype and expectations that followed the Browns into this season. The problem with an organization spending an entire offseason beating its chest about how things are different now is that, when the season starts, things actually have to be different. “Freddie Bathrooms” may have been a fun character to have around few season ago, but what the Browns need now is a coach who can just win some damn games.