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Cruel twist: Browns lose coach for playoffs due to COVID-19

by Tom Withers
| January 6, 2021 12:06 AM

CLEVELAND (AP) — Amid a masked, muted celebration in the locker room after the Browns ended the NFL's longest playoff drought, coach Kevin Stefanski asked for a game ball and then told Pro Bowl guard Joel Bitonio to step forward.

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