It's been a good year to be Cleveland. Between the Cavaliers bringing home the NBA title, the Republican National Convention and a huge winning streak by the Indians, Cleveland has been doing pretty well for itself. Now that football season is approaching, people have got to be thinking that--well, the city may regress to its mean when the Browns open the season. The Browns have been perennial basement dwellers in the NFL for a pretty long time and mostly subsist on underwhelming draft picks and the occasional Johnny Football party story.

Plot twist: the Browns actually look really good this preseason, thanks mostly to a vastly improved offense under the guidance of one Hue Jackson. The new head coach in Cleveland is an offensive wizard, conjuring up ridiculous formations to confuse the defense and provide match-up problems--and in Cleveland's favor--the Browns are his latest project. Jackson made waves a few weeks ago by announcing Robert Griffin III, the erstwhile savior of all football in our nation's capital, would be the starter for the year. We were sure that Jackson bit off more than he could chew. Instead, he's unleashed the true gifts of RG3 and fully weaponized an offense loaded with athletes--and Gary Barnidge.

He's got Terrelle Pryor running circles around borderline All-Pros like Desmond Trufant. He's got the two-headed monster of Isaiah Crowell and Duke Johnson running with a purpose between the tackles and making tacklers pay every time they meet. He's got Taylor Gabriel sprinting over the middle like a man possessed. But he also has RG3's mojo back.

Remember when he could do things like this, aka own the sideline and everything in between? Griffin had his troubles with confidence in Washington after his injuries but you could never doubt the talent. You could tell though, that when he dropped back he was feeling scared. His drop-backs became panicked runs after he got hurt instead of calmly reading the field and making the correct throw. It became clear many times over the past two and a half seasons that he could get into his own head and take himself out of games. Circling back to Jackson--he looks to have solved those problems.

Make no mistake about it, there is still a ton of pressure on Griffin--he's a former No. 2 overall pick and an Offensive Rookie of the Year winner. To put it simply: he's playing for his career in Cleveland. If RG3 doesn't have a good year, his opportunities as a starter in the NFL will probably run dry. At just 26 years old, Griffin has plenty of time to be a contributor on any other team or even stay with the Browns as part of their continual rebuilding process. And for the Browns, this is a great low-risk move. He's a desperate veteran trying to salvage a career making peanuts in terms of money and they need a quarterback.

A potentially dynamic duo, Jackson and RG3 are by default in charge of the future of this team--for better or worse. But if all goes according to plan, we all might have to find a new terrible team to pick on.

(PS--Josh Gordon is back in week 5. I couldn't be more excited.)