The Browns are the best show on television. Jump on the train!

With the excuses of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams, the Cleveland Browns are the most interesting team in the NFL. Hue Jackson's third year at the helm of the league's best-performing franchise is sometimes brilliant, sometimes cursed, and sometimes frustrating – but never boring.

It may sound as weird to read that to type, but in this year of the 2018 Lord, the Browns are great to watch.

In five games, they were led three times in overtime. They won two games with four points or less. They lost two games, each by an investment. They played five hours, 28 minutes and 12 seconds of football in five weeks and almost everything in the middle of a game to a possession.

They had two games torn by terrible kicks, one of them having also opposed the new controversial rule of the league against brutality. A loss for the Raiders has been made possible by my terrible calls and the brutal reminder of the universe that the only way to truly break a heart is to give it hope first. Their first victory in more than 20 months flooded the city of Cleveland with complimentary beverages adjacent to the beer. Their second has given up Baltimore's claim as AFC North's top team.

At 2-2-1, the club has already tripled the number of victories won by Jackson as an NFL coach. And with a young team filled with intriguing but largely unproven talents, 2018 could be a pivotal year in the Browns' journey from the doormat to the potential champion.

But somewhere in this ascent lies an important question.

Is it safe to attack the Cleveland Browns?

Acclaiming the Browns equates football to watching the episode of Futurama where Fry finds the fossilized remains of his old dog Seymour. It's good for some laughs, some hope and some interesting twists, but at the time of the credits, all you can understand is a world of darkness and regret. 2018 may not be any different from the previous 19 seasons that ended with zero playoff victories and exactly one (1) Pro Bowl quarterback (Derek Anderson), but that gives the impression that this will be the case.

The Browns will record for the first time since 2014 a record of .500 or more in the 6th week of the NFL season. The 14's team represents Cleveland's record over the past ten years. Brian Hoyer, Andrew Hawkins and Craig Robertson. The closest thing to the team of a legitimate star was Joe Haden.

This year's team is made up of Harlem Globetrotters. The # 1 choice in 2018, Baker Mayfield, meets the standards behind the center and looks like the first quarterback of the franchise team since Bernie Kosar. Acquiring off season, Jarvis Landry proved that he was worthy of the $ 75 million contract he had signed in April; He is in for a season of more than 1,200 yards, although he is the only recognizable name on the Browns wide catcher depth card. Nick Chubb, Duke Johnson and Carlos Hyde have formed a platoon of multi-faceted defensemen, who run for more distances than all but one of the other NFL teams this fall.

The defense could end up being even better. The Christian Kirksey-Joe Schobert-Jamie Collins team in midfield brings Cleveland a hard-core linebacker. In front of them, Myles Garrett, as announced, leads a rising defensive front where no starter is over 25 years old. In fact, aside from Collins, none of the team's defensive starters are over 26 this fall, which means the group will only get better.

More importantly, this talent turns opportunities into gains.

The Browns may have won only two victories since 2016, but these victories were strong beacons in games where Cleveland could have fallen short of the expectations of the franchise and not settle anything. They followed the 14-3 Jets at half-time, before Mayfield intervened in training and provided the spark his team needed to win a triumph in times of great drought. They could have fled to the spotlight after missing a decisive goal at the end of the settlement and then turned the ball over the Ravens in the fifth week. Mayfield has dragged the team from his own five-yard line to the Red Zone Baltimore to put up a winning goal.

As I said, great. But …

The Browns are still able to break your heart

It's hard to believe, but this Cleveland team can reasonably say it should be 5-0. Instead, a combination of questionable calls and unfortunate kicks left the Jackson team 2-2-1 on the unlucky side.

During the first week, Garrett broke the league's renewed focus on mistreating the calls of …

… turned what would have been a goal attempt on the pitch with a goal and a goal in a touchdown of James Conner. These four additional points would be vitally important for Pittsburgh.

From there, the Browns spoiled several different chances to beat their rival AFC North. Tyrod Taylor led his team to Steeler territory tied 21-21 with less than 30 seconds and then interception on the first and 10 of Pittsburgh 43. Three consecutive overtime wins resulted in a three-point gap. . And when the Steelers attempted to give the game to Cleveland with a fumble on their own territory, Zane Gonzalez was there to block his winning shot by 41 yards.

The following week, Gonzalez was left at the goat game – he missed two goals and an extra point in the fourth quarter of a 21-18 loss against the Saints – and then left the list after John's general manager Dorsey released him on the following Monday. . Two weeks later, the officials whistled a potentially dangerous breakaway before she turned into a Cleveland touchdown …

… and then overturn a key position in a third decisive attempt to seal the game, allowing the Raiders to have enough weight to make a dramatic comeback and win the game in overtime.

Despite the waste still present, this year's team has something different.

So, yes, supporting Brown is always painful and dumb. The victories are dramatic. The losses are dramatic. Nothing is boring, and everything is at least a little awful.

But there is something to rebuild in Cleveland. Two decades of cement pouring into a marsh finally stabilized. The inconspicuous smog surrounding FirstEnergy Stadium, an invisible haze that has turned almost every prospect, with the exception of Joe Thomas, into a potential still below its potential, has not yet mutated this latest group of young talents. To find the good side of Sundays Browns, it is no longer necessary to squint to the horizontal.

It's different. And unlike the record 7-9 season of 2014 or the unsustainable 10-6 mark of 2007 (the year that we think Derek Anderson AND Braylon Edwards are Pro Bowl talents), the list of this year is filled with young local talent who still have plenty of room to improve from here. It's the players – Mayfield, Garrett, Schobert, Chubb, Landry, Larry Ogunjobi, Denzel Ward and many others – who can turn that hope into something bigger.

That is, as long as they do not Browns all that first.