Have the Browns been Mephisto'd?

There's this thing that happens in fandom movies that I have labeled "Mephisto'd". It started when Disney+ started making MCU shows and WandaVision was on. As a comic book middler, ((I haven't read a lot but I know the stories and where things can go storyline wise.)) I, along with the entire MCU fandom, spent every week of WandaVision looking for Easter eggs and clues that would point to Mephisto being brought into the MCU. There is a storyline in the comics where Wanda Maximoff uses shards of Mephisto's soul to create her twin boys, Billy and Tommy. Mephisto, the comic book stand-in for the Devil, absorbs the boys and Wanda suffers a nervous breakdown, eventually eliminating powersets from most of the mutant population and/or killing off many of them. ((Sorry about the comics deep dive. This is still a sports website.))Fans of the MCU wanted badly to see most of this play out on screen, at least the Mephisto connection as mutants had not yet been brought into the stories, and cooked up water cooler Screen Rant articles every week after a new episode, only to be let down. An unnamed character that *had* to be Reed Richards was not Reed Richards. Evan Peters reprising his role of Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver from the Fox X-Men movies became an ill-fated dick joke as he was actually a character named Ralph Bohner. And while the story did have an amazing twist, ((It was Agatha all along!)) it all paled in comparison to what readers of the (comic) books had concocted in their fanfic. Star Wars fans had this with Ahsoka, as they tried to identify the helmeted Marrok who fought with Shin Hati only for it to be a Nightsister-created zombie and not a Dark-Side-turned Ezra Bridger. ((This sentence makes sense for Star Wars fans, really.)) Henceforth, I hereby dub fans overthinking a situation beyond what the most likely outcome will be "Mephisto'd". Using it in a sentence, "man, I really Mephisto'd my date with Laura...I thought it was gonna end up back at home but all I got was a kiss on the cheek." Smash cut to the 2023 Cleveland Browns.We all thought this was gonna be the year. I made bets that Nick Chubb was gonna be the Offensive Player of the Year. ((FanDuel refuses to allow me to pull back the bet so every time I look, I have to scroll down through pain and agony.)) Deshaun Watson was gonna lead the team to the Promised Land, with Myles Garrett putting *fill-in-the-blank NFC QB* ((For my own sake, can it be Brock "The Warlock" Purdy?)) on their back while simultaneously holding up the Lombardi Trophy instead of a helmet. Yet we lost our Pro Bowl starting right tackle in Week 1, All-World running back in Week 2, the starting quarterback got hurt in Week 3 and missed a month, the All-Pro CB1 is battling a shoulder injury that has kept him out, Myles Garrett maybe might possibly could have but we'll never know if there is structural damage to his shoulder...it's been a year. What we thought was going to be this mighty culmination as lifetimes of torment come together in a wave of relief and "finally they won one" has been dashed upon the rocks of mediocrity like always.Sure, they can still make the playoffs with the schedule wins they have coming down the pike. Chicago is running for No. 1 and No. 2 draft picks, the New York Jets are functionally obsolete unless Aaron Rodgers's impossible recovery is ended the way the script-makers wrote it and he sits the rest of the year because the playoffs aren't possible, and Cinci is starting Jake Browning at quarterback. 10 wins can get you a wildcard sport in the AFC this year, and all you need is a little luck going your way when you get in, but there are certainly days where I feel myself planning for some big reveal, only to be brought back down to Earth. Mephisto'd!