"It would be easy to fire Bud Carson all over again."

And so begins Bill Livingston's latest grouse about the Browns. So, Bill, please tell us why it would be easy to fire Carson again.

Carson was an aging, Super Bowl-winning defensive coordinator who flopped as a head coach with the Browns back when they won more often than the seasons change. Romeo Crennel has the same background and the same shortcomings. They are accentuated because the oft-dumbfounded Crennel comes off as bewildered in his news conferences.

Uh-huh, and...

Crennel made a fairly big deal of the quarter-and-a-half in which receiver Braylon Edwards sat on the bench, a result of the coach's decision, during Sunday's stinker against Tampa Bay.

Okay, but where's Bud Carson in all of this? I really want to know why it would easy to fire Carson all over again. Because it's so easy to fire Romeo Crennel today? That doesn't make sense--Crennel still has a job. Maybe it's because firing Carson the first time around was so difficult. Though after reaching the AFC Championship game in his first season in 1989, Art Modell canned Carson nine games into the next season. That seems pretty quick. I guess Carson didn't have much staying power.

Then why would it be so easy to fire him "all over again"? Fortunately for us, Livingston never mentions Carson again.