Comments on: Cleveland Browns: QB Score: Week 1

By: Haze

Haze — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:31:37 +0000

I’m the only actual person who goes to this site, aren’t I?

LOL

By: disappointmentzone

disappointmentzone — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:11:23 +0000

How is your brother, Ryan? That’s a pretty good line.

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:31:15 +0000

Here’s a direct quote for you from my brother, just before kickoff on Sunday.

“Don’t get your hopes up Ryan. What’s that site, the disappointment zone? He better start writing now.”

By: rd

rd — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:03:14 +0000

We are all forgetting an obvious correlation here. Our first game back from expansion was against the Steelers, which resulted in a blow-out loss followed by a knee jerk, look of desperation hook of the starting quarterback. Nine years later, we are still opening with the Steelers, still getting blown out and still watching a knee jerk, look of deserperation hook of a starting quarterback. Ahhh – the joys of progress. Quickly thinking, that score was 41-0, this one was 34-7. The Browns should be able to beat the Steelers at this rate of improvement about the turn of the next century…….

By: disappointmentzone

disappointmentzone — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:38:02 +0000

I think the concern over putting him in too soon is that he doesn’t yet have full command over the offense. I’m not so sure it’s an issue of a fragile psyche so much as an issue of how to best get him to the place where he is not a sitting duck because he can’t check out of a play because he’s not yet able to call a decent audible. It’s certainly a careful balance. The O-line looked pretty bad yesterday and there is a strong argument to keep Quinn on the bench and let Anderson take the blows from the upcoming defenses, that whatever gain Quinn will have will be out weighed by the risk of injury.

I don’t see Gruden as the head coach.

Who would have thought that out of the big three in NE the Browns would end up with the obvious clunker. Weis is having his share of problems at ND this season but he at least looks like he coaches. Mangini looks like he’s going to be coaching in the league for about 25 years. Crennel looks like he’s overwhelmed every week.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:03:00 +0000

I can’t follow the CW that you ruin a QB for his career if you put him in too early. Didn’t Troy Aikman play that first year when the Cowboys were awful? The reason Couch failed in the league was because he wasn’t good, not because he played too early. If Quinn’s psyche and talent are so fragile that he will get permanently ruined if he has poor games in the first half of the season, then he won’t ever be a good QB in this league.

Why isn’t Butler starting over Schaeffer at right tackle?

Gruden next year?

By: disappointmentzone

disappointmentzone — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:59:59 +0000

Thanks Haze.

I do think there is a chance Anderson could show something. In his first two games last season he performed quite well and he wasn’t terrible today despite playing on what I’m sure must have been short notice. Do I think it’s likely Anderson will show something? No, of course not. But I’d handicap the odds at about 25%, which is a whole 25% higher than Frye.

Working in Anderson’s favor is his arm strength. Charlie Frye, like Chad Pennington, has a below-average arm. But Frye, unlike Pennington, is not accurate. Can’t be weak-armed and inaccurate in the NFL and remain a starter. Anderson at least has an arm. So that’s something, right?

The one big area where Crennel dropped the ball was in the punter situation. It’s incredibly bush league to sign a punter the day before the opener to replace a guy who’s been hurt since last Monday. That first possession certainly set the tone for the rest of the afternoon.

By: Haze

Haze — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:43:43 +0000

btw it was the Browns QB Weekly Score that first attracted me to this site, both for the hilarious commentary and the qually hilarious notion that someone had to actually watch the games to post the commentary. lol its still funny.

By: Haze

Haze — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:42:04 +0000

If Anderson “shows something”? Do you seriously believe there is a chance of that happening? I hope he tanks, Quinn is quarterback soon because this does follow Cleveland fans living away from Hell. The only redeeming aspect of Quinn NOT starting is if our current quarterback is hilariously bad, which.. at least makes for a good drinking game.

By: disappointmentzone

disappointmentzone — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:15:54 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how the team responds to adversity this season. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see some sort of rebellion among the players in response to Romeo.

One other subplot is how Crennel handles finally starting Brady Quinn. Crennel obviously can’t put Quinn in under the banner of looking towards 08, but that’ll clearly be implied if he waits until the Browns are 0-6 before doing so.

After today I’d like to revise my original guess for when Quinn would be announced as the starter. We’re no longer looking at early October but late September. Unless Anderson shows something, which would be nice.