Editor's note: Tony Grossi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN 850 WKNR.

Takeaways from the press conference of Sashi Brown, executive director of football operations; Paul DePodesta, chief strategy officer; and coach Hue Jackson …

1. The new beginning?: The New Browns Order officially kicked off training camp with the majority of questions zeroing in on a player coming off suspension (Josh Gordon), a player trying to rehabilitate his image after a social media blunder (Isaiah Crowell), and uncertainty about the quarterback situation. The more things change …

2. Starting QB coming soon: Jackson said he will name his starting quarterback before the preseason opener in Green Bay on Aug. 12. “We’re going to go through a process. It’s going to show itself very quickly,” Jackson said. “It will definitely be before we play our first preseason game. I know everybody wants me to say, ‘Here’s our guy.’ We’re going to hit the ground running starting tomorrow and start evaluating that process.” Jackson continued to be coy when asked if there is, in fact, an open competition between Robert Griffin III and Josh McCown, saying there is open competition “everywhere.” But he won’t commit to 50-50 reps between the two. “We have to earn the right to play. I don’t want to get locked in, [whether] it’s going to be 60-40 or 50-50. Whatever we have to do to evaluate our players, that’s what we’ll do and that’s what’s important moving forward.”

3. RG3 update: Nothing Jackson said, however, disputed the overwhelming expectation of Griffin being named the starter. He would not specify what Griffin needs to do in two weeks prior to the first preseason game to earn the official distinction as starting QB. “Just play the position the way we expect it to be played,” the coach said. “We have an expectation of how that position plays. Contrary to what some people feel, I think he was getting there and has done a good job. I just think there’s still another step. That was OTA’s. The intensity’s going to ramp up a little bit at every position. What’s important is we’re trying to create a winning football team here because I truly expect to win. So that’s what we’re going to set out to do at every position.”

4. Club expections: After gutting the roster to the bone, replacing veteran players with hopeful prospects, forsaking higher-rated players at the top of the draft for future additional draft choices, what exactly should fans expect from the 2016 Browns? “They should hold us accountable,” Brown said. “Just as Hue said, the expectation here should be winning. Our roster is obviously younger than some of the other teams in our division, as we’ve brought in a lot of young guys. But as we’ve told them, this isn’t about taking a year off or looking up in two or three years. This is about getting better starting tomorrow every single snap and that will translate into our games. You can’t look past the work it’s going to take to get there and to establish the culture that we’ve started.”

5. No exact science: Jackson wouldn’t temper expectations, either. “I don’t know any other way to do this but to chase winning and chase perfection each and every day,” he said. “You never know what you can hit on. This is football. There’s no exact science as to how this works. There’s no magical way of predicting what the record will be. The guys in the locker room will determine how good we’ll be. … What are record will be, I don’t know. But at end of day, I know we’re going to win and we’re going to expect to win.”

6. Pads will wait: Jackson reiterated his intention to have a physical camp with live hitting to practice tackling and blocking. It sounds simple, but previous Browns coaches have bowed more to protecting their teams from season-affecting injuries. “At the end of the day, in order for us to become a good football team, there’s certain things we must do well,” Jackson said. “In this league, if you don’t block and tackle extremely well and if you don’t affect the quarterback and if you can’t run the ball very well, there’s going to be some issues.” However, the league CBA restricts players practicing in pads until the third day of camp. “Sunday we’ll be in pads, I promise you,” Jackson said.