Three Reasons I think Haslam Cleans House on January 5

Before the 2025 season, with reference to his leadership team's future stability, Jimmy Haslam stated that a  3-14 in 2025 "won't cut it" which set the baseline of expectations.  I feel fairly confident the Browns will win at least 4 games in 2025 so the question is will a 33% improvement in 2025 be enough for Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry to survive?   

Here are 3 reasons I believe Haslam cleans house on January 5.

1.  Against the Raiders, the broadcast showed JW Johnson, Jimmy Haslam and Andrew Berry in a loge.   Each of the 3 sat at least 6 feet away from the other and Haslam was busy texting away.   Their body language communicated a level of discomfort and I think the reason for the separation was neither Johnson nor Haslam wanted Berry to get a sideways glance at who they were texting and what they were texting about.

2.  I have now read three articles that reinforce just how sought after Kevin Stefanski will be should he and the Browns part ways.  Stefanski's agent is Jimmy Sexton, one of the most powerful and well connected agents in the NFL.   It's just a guess on my part, but hard for me to imagine that of their own initiative, national sports writers are making discreet phone calls to teams like the Giants to ask "hey, if Kevin Stefanski is fired, tell me just how much you love him".   That stories are far more likely to be Jimmy Sexton initiated and designed to influence the Browns org.

3.  Paul DePodesta is gone and he was the first domino.   DePodesta knows appearances count so he managed to maneuver his way out of Cleveland and engineer a nice new role before the whip came down but make no mistake, the analytics obsession is done in Jimmy Haslam's mind.  And thank goodness for that.  Stefanski and Berry are connected at the hip and Stefanski was DePodesta's guy.  They all share credit for what went well and the blame for the collapse these last two years.