It's Steeler Week and the Browns are Competitive, but Who Can Play QB?

If you want to acquire a player, I still think Chad Pennington is awesome.

This will also be the 3rd time in 4 years the Browns have been forced to go to their 3rd string QB.

I don’t think this is right. The last time I remember us going to our 3rd stringer was 2008 with Dorsey/Gradkowski. In 2007, we didn’t. In 2009, we didn’t.

Missed the connection between Favre´s cheese winkie and our QB situation?

If neither Delhomme or Wallace can play this will be the 9th straight year CLE has had a change at QB due to injury or performance.

haven’t we already switched qb’s b/c of injury or performance? like, twice?

Hillis is a beast. If he’s back to health then you should probably be afraid.

If not, I don’t know how much of a chance we have. Even with Seneca Wallace under center, we’ve been losing (albeit competitively). I’m not sure we’ll have Wallace and we probably won’t have Delhomme. So if Hillis isn’t at the top of his game, we’re probably sunk.

I look forward to a great game. My gut instinct is that Hillis will be good to go for the game and it will be a good contest.

And quite honestly… I hope we rock Roethlisberger similar to how we rocked him 8 times in our last meeting.

@Johnny_S If we keep it to football we should be fine :-). Thanks for the civil note. It will be interesting to see how Ben will be having been out for so long. I think historically he has done well in these situations. If the Steelers are down a TD or two at the half do you think there will be a chance that they might put in Batch?

We need to bring Tommy Tupa out of retirement: punt/QB duties.

No not a good call….So with the game still in the chance to win column you would put in the #3 rookie who has had no meaningful snaps since rookie introduction week into the game? Delhomme is a vet & simply put the best player available into the game & let them try to make plays. That said Delhomme knew his ankle was in bad shape as he jogged (limpishly) off the field asap to get that injection at halftime.

with Wallace down we had no other choice. he couldn’t play and it wouldn’t be smart to throw colt in. If colt sucks and we want to put delhomme in even if he is injured, I don’t think we could because colt was our emergency QB

I disagree on Favre and I doubt that Holmgren would have wanted to see Mangini put Colt in to the game if JD was capable of going in. I honestly think we would have gone full wildcat before putting Colt in on Sunday.

We have a young secondary minus Sheldon. Elam needs to be upgraded, but the pass D has been good 3 out of 5 games.

I imagine we were just happy to be up 7-6 and we did not want to risk a negative play. I felt it was stupid as well, but prolly not a big deal.

If he wouldn’t come back to help Arizona’s QB situation, then he’s not going to any other team.

apparently our offensive line sucks now (3 injuries to 2 QB ankles), which makes putting an old, statuesque guy like warner something akin to sub-optimal.

but seriously … wtf is going on w/ joe thomas and steinbach? the line played well against balti and cincy, but tb/kc/atl have all abused our line, and thomas in particular (i believe all 3 qb injuries have come off the left side).

does 73 suck now?

/overreaction

This.

at least Ratliff can lead a fourth quarter drive.

someone’s going to have to define what an ‘agressive’ rehab program would be, and if that works why wouldn’t that just be regular rehab?

High ankle sprains are pretty nasty.

It would be interesting to see someone challenge that clause though.

haha…

Considering whose out there, I would go after him if we can’t get a UFL guy.

Croyle in his weaknesses reminds me a lot of wallace. He is indecisive, holds onto the ball too long, not great at reading a D or going through his progressions, not great at calling audibles.

However, croyle can be accurate, athletic and have nice zip on the ball (like wallace)

I thought that the UFL contract was binding and that those guys have to finish the regular season at least.

That a contract is “binding” is the very definition of a contract — if it is not binding then it is just a gratuitous set of promises that are not enforceable in a court. The fact that UFL contracts are binding does not mean that the player can’t sign with the NFL. If an NFL team wants to sign a UFL player, it can buy the contract directly from the UFL team and then sign the player to an NFL-compliant contract. Or the team can sign the player directly and, as part of the signing, contract with the player to indemnify them for damages the player must pay for breaching the contract. What cannot happen is that a court could order a player to play for the UFL team — the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution does not allow the State to order people to work. In another world, the court could order the player to play for no one but that would not happen in the real world where courts don’t like to do that.

+1

If they start Ratliffe over Colt this team is truly pathetic.

Ooo… Troy Smith… Any chance we could get him from the Ravens? That’d be an intriguing option.

I’ve been waiting for a team to give him a chance, to see what he can do. I think he would work out in cleveland but it would be rough for him to just jump right in.

this should be interesting….

I am so happy that our team has enough confidence to do this. I thought for sure they’ld puss out and start Ratliffe.

this is a mistake.

W00F! Ratty FTW!

He’s signed to back up McCoy.

Geez. Go figure we take McCoy to have him sit for a year and now he’s going to have to start Sunday probably.

Polamalu vs McCoy. Not feeling good about this.

We’re screwed.

Not too surprising. Holmgren is probably letting Mangini play this year out (or at least first 2/3 of the year), and then will evaluate Mangini and staff quite closely.

ignore him. he is trolling for lulz

This

great, then even if he sucked the rest of his career we would have people clamoring for him to start every game, just like Quinn.

A few comments on WFNY put it nicely.

“I’m getting nauseated by all the overwrought hand-wringing here. McCoy’s a big boy. He’s not the first rookie to fill in for an injured starter and he won’t be the last. Some of you guys are in serious need of a grip. We’re not supposed to win this game anyway, so what’s the big deal? Calm down, already.”

“We have the Steelers right where we want them.” (I just put that one in because it made me laugh.)

“I think we can all agree that this is earlier than any of us wanted to see McCoy, but it’s reality so we might as well embrace things. At least he’ll have a full week of practice to prepare, the coaches can game plan with him in mind, and there is really no pressure because no one expects the Browns to win or for him to even survive against the Steeler D. So, Colt gets a big taste of life in the NFL this weekend. As long as he doesn’t get mentally or physically scarred, this could be a good thing.”

I agree – there’s no reason we can’t pull out a victory on Sunday. We have been playing well on defense – if we keep the TOs to a minimum we have a chance at a W. Worst-case scenario, we at least get a look a Colt.

Is this the week that Cribbs has a return for 6? Can Fujita score another sack/fumble combo? Will Kenyon Coleman continue to be in the right place at the right time? Can we make it 3 blocked FGs in 3 games? Stay tuned Browns fans.

LMAO @ the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor.

REC

Not only do I totally agree with this, but the reference made me laugh.

You guys wont like this, but Saban made the same comparison in his first year as HC at Alabama when the Tide dropped their homecoming game to UL-Monroe.

In the words of the great Jon Foreman: “Failure and opposition award us opportunities that success and support cannot.”

Big Ben won’t be playing. He’ll get suspended after a night of making it rain on Saturday.

REC.

I was wondering when someone was going to bring that quote up again.

cribbs runs one..(two?) back.

Yup. Let’s get it on!

You know what, I think Colt is gonna do just fine. He may have some rough patches and make some mistakes, but I think he is gonna surprise us.

I can’t believe he likes that crappy band. Or maybe he feels that should be his son’s new position?

Awesome. Thanks for the link.

thats really his dad?

I think his responses initially were not too far off the target, the conversation deteriorated into semantics and people arguing about different things though.

You’re all welcome.