In the long arc of professional sport, the relationship between a city and its athletes is rarely simple — built on hope, tested by failure, and sometimes fractured by forces that have little to do with what happens on the field. In Cleveland, that complexity surfaced audibly during a preseason loss to Buffalo, when Deshaun Watson heard his home crowd boo him and understood the sound as something older and more personal than a bad completion percentage. Two quarterbacks and a head coach were left to navigate the distance between a fanbase's grievances and the fragile, ongoing work of earning t