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I’m not usually the type of guy who calls for the backup QB whenever the teams is playing poorly, but Quinn has to play. DA is just not getting it done and there is no reason to keep playing him. He is showing his limitations as a QB. He was great in the beginning, but as teams get more video of him they can exploit his weaknesses. It’s very similar to the Todd Boeckman situation at OSU. He was good at first against the mediocre teams, but against good teams he just can’t get it done. DA is the same way. Let’s see what Quinn can do. That’s why we gave up two picks for him.

of course we have no hard evidence. the dude has one series of regular season action in his career. if the decision comes to start Brady, it has to do more with Anderson. It is a determination that Anderson is not a good QB, similar to week 2 last year. Anderson didn’t win the job, Frye lost it. Anderson has shown more than Frye in their respective careers, so the longer leash is understandable. But Quinn has always had the higher ceiling (and floor in my opinion). At some point this becomes about Quinn’s development too. We had the luxury of letting him sit last year because DA played out of his mind. That isn’t happening anymore.

Crennel has never been very insightful in his quotes to media. Hopefully this is the rubric he is using behind closed doors.

Typical Romeo fashion, beat around the bush. And this "There’s no hard evidence that he will have more success." Goodness Romeo how do you know unless he gets a shot.
 Please can we end this Romeo era.!!!!

Crennel said of Quinn "There’s no hard evidence that he will have more success."

Thanks for believing in and building up the confidence in your next quarterback! Way to go! Do you have this attitude in the locker room for all of the BROWNS players? No wonder we are 0-3! At halftime, do you sit the 53 nice kind gentlemen down for a quick tea and crumpets before they walk back on the field with their heads hung low? There’s a thing in this league called “B_LLS”! Apparently you don’t have any and it’s rubbing off on the whole team BIG TIME! You wouldn’t happen to be a eunich would you?

RAC, you need to grab DA by the throat and tell him to “park it” as he ain’t gettin her done (a pathetic 43.5 passer rating through the first 3 games)! Maybe that will wake his a__ up! Then grab BQ by the jersey look him straight in the eyes and through gritted teeth tell him “It’s all yours boy, BRING IT!”

Agree with most of this, but:

Syndric “Stepdrop” happens to be our #2 WR until further notice.

I don’t know about giving him one more game. If he torches Cincy for 400 yds and 4 TDs, will you really be convinced he’s back? Or has he simply played a good game against a bad team? Plus, there is a decent chance he fails again- actually not many good reasons to feel that he won’t. And we can’t afford another poor performance if we want to salvage this season (which I haven’t given up on).

I see what you did there with adding drop to the wide receivers names. What about Braydroplon Edropwards?

I don’t know. It is pretty worthless to try to debate what should have happened in the first or second game of the season. Anderson was obviously our QB coming into the year andthat wasn’t going to change without 3 games being played, regardless of result. But at 0-3, 2.5 games back in the division and a QB rating in the 40’s changes a lot. It is certainly different than 0-2 after games against the favorite in the division and the super bowl favorite.

I just think you are a little extreme here. The defense has played pretty well (considering injuries and where they started from last year) and the division is pretty bad. The NFC East is going to keep giving losses to Cincy, Pitt, and Balt.- I don’t see anyone going 12-4 and running away with this thing. So all is not lost.

Quinn benefits from playing. He has had an entire season plus off-season plus pre-season and now 3 weeks to be comfortable in Chud’s offense. Its time to make the move, I feel. Not sooner, not later.

As for Romeo’s future? That’s probably for a different post. But like I said, the defense has improved and it simply isn’t going to happen until after the bye. If we lose this week and we look bad, regardless of who is QB, and we are 0-4 with a bye week and a 3-4 game defecit, I’d be willing to discuss making a coaching move. But thats for the future. (Must admit that I have started having dreams of Cowher in Brown and Orange again).

Do you think KC is saying, man, if only Thigpen could be more like Derek Anderson?

Good post, The Browns are horrible right now, there are problems almost everywhere. Quinn deserves a shot.
 I still think Romeo needs to go, and The Browns should approach Cowher and offer him what he wants.

I really, really like Horse Balls, but the guy really needs to get things figured out by last week. This is soul-crushingly dissapointing.

Very good, I agree with most of your assessments. I disagree with your take on Romeo. Both Mangini and Crennel were handed opportunities as a result of success at NE. Belichick has shown that NE success was not dependent on these guys. These guys have not succeeded on their own.
Furthermore, it has become increasingly obvious that Romeo does not sufficiently prepare his team to play on Sunday and doesn’t know how to groom a qb to manage a clock. Romeo’s game day decision making is so bad it’s humorous. I don’t hold this against him, he’s a fine def coordinator who is in over his head.
It is time to prepare for 2009, and the front office should be sending feelers out to coaches with proven records. These guys might not have wanted to coach an expansion team, but there’s enough raw talent now to entice somebody decent.