How Cleveland exercises the ghost of LeBron

The Cleveland Browns are 29.8 million dollars under the salary cap.  How does this relate to LeBron James, and the ghosts he left behind after The Decision?  A very good question.  The answer- sign Drew Brees.  This seems like a crazy idea.  Perhaps it is.  However, maybe it is just crazy enough to work.  Maybe the karma of Cleveland will finally change.  Maybe, for just one time, the sports gods will protect the mistake by the lake.  Wait, I forgot about a giant swarm of midges [note:  mlb has apparently destroyed all actual video of this event].  Anyway, follow my logic.

• The Browns have a ton of cap room- about $29 million according to estimates.  I have been on a cap space frenzy lately.  nyjetscap.com is still the best site, btw.
• The Browns have 2 first round picks this year, and barring the incredible, will not be able to draft RG3.
• Drew Brees is pissed about being tagged.  He has also been called good, not great by his GM.
• The Saints are in cap trouble, and have to find a way to sign Carl Nicks and Marques Colston.
• The Saints will also get punished because of the bounty system.  They already traded their first rounder this year for Ingram, and I think Gooddell is going to go Thor on them and drop the hammer.
• Drew Brees brought football back in New Orleans, gave a city some hope that desperately needed it, and is a local hero.  Plus he is mega dad, as evidenced by this video.
• Cleveland had to deal with The Decision, Tim Couch, Eric Mangini and Romeo Crennel.

What does all of this mean?  If the Browns have some guts, and have the courage to forever change the sports karma, and well, just the karma of Cleveland, they will make a godfather offer to Brees.  If they use all of their available cap space, the Saints will have a tough time matching.  Of course, with Drew Brees being franchised, the Browns would have to surrender 2 first rounders- wait, they have an extra one this year to off set the loss of one of those first rounders!  Brees might feel interested in this deal, because not only is he being disrespected by NOLA, but he would have the opportunity to save another doomed franchise, which happens to be close to a place that he will be visiting after he retires in Canton.  He would have the immediate love and respect of the fans of Cleveland, and become the face of the city.  The image of LeBron leaving would be exercised from the sports memory of Cleveland, and the Browns would be the cities darling once again.  The Browns would have their best player since Jim Brown, and their best chance of winning since Paul Brown coached the team.  Keep in mind the Browns lost 6 games by a combined 27 points.  I think Brees could turn those loses into wins, which would give them 10 for the year, and a chance in the playoffs.

  I'm not saying that I know anything, except that I have common sense.  This would work.  This would make sense for all the parties.  And it would be the ultimate sports karma justice.  A city that lost its best player in a manner that makes the heart getting ripped out scene from Temple of Doom look humane, from a city that put a bounty on historic quarterbacks and doesn't value their all time great now.  If you don't agree, ask yourself one question:  "What would Tim Tebow do?"