Is Randy Lerner ready to make the right decisions?
BEREA — The biggest example of a miscast lead role is not Romeo Crennel as a head coach or Phil Savage as a general manager, though they’ll get their share of votes. It remains Randy Lerner as a NFL owner. That’s why Bill Cowher rebuffing the Browns in a meeting Saturday night means more than simply a shorter candidates list. It means an owner who’s at his most comfortable throwing money at his problems will now be forced out of one-stop-shopping mode and might have to rely instead on his business instincts and organizational acumen. Phil Savage had it all wrong, you know. Woe is you. You not only have to trust that Lerner can make the right choice but that he can make it quickly. The last time he hired a coach-front office team he traveled with John Collins to see how successful organizations did it. Philly and New England were his primary stops. The result was hiring a first-time head coach and GM from two winning organizations (New England and Baltimore, respectively), firing Colli
