Roundin' The Corner

That’s awesome. Hope you enjoy the game!

And I agree, I thought Colt played pretty well, considering the situation. He showed some things other (new) Browns QBs haven’t shown.

At this point we could use anyone who can run routes, get open, and catch balls.

Why would anyone disagree with that? It is a glaring weakness.

You must have missed it in the other thread, but Dorn was actually saying that it’s time to get a #1 receiver on this team. I was quite surprised myself.

As Brad said, I am ready to hop on the acquire a big play threat bandwagon.

I think our first round pick will be a WR.

Is Michael Floyd from ND an early 2nd round pick or a late first?

Well if you look at the teams that added good, proven receiving talent in our division, it hasn’t hurt them. I mean who saw Flacco being as effective as he is a few years ago? Giving him someone to throw too that knows how to get open and catch has been key to this. I can’t see why people think our QBs should perform like Drew Breese when they have nothing but #3-#4 receivers to catch it. Not adding some talent on receiver this year with all the talent that changed teams was confusing to me and the lack of it really shows on the team.

Of course we could. Who couldn’t?

We kept it very close but our offense couldn’t consistently move the ball and it seemed to me that the steelers “breaking” our defense (after more and more “bending” as the game went on) was only a matter of time.

At the end of the game, our defense didn’t have any plays left in them and the steelers broke away.

Well I think you were right that we are going to need a consistent pass rusher for our defense to stop giving up so many big plays. We’ve lost almost every game to a big play and our offense isn’t built for shootouts. Even with better cover corners, very few can cover long enough to make up for blitzes that never get to the QB

Before the game I had hoped for a decent showing from Colt without a victory. Win would have heaped too many expectation and adulation on the kid. What I saw is pretty much in line with what I hoped for.

Am I mortgaging the farm on this kid? No, but he has the best pedigree of anyone we have had playing QB since Vinny and Bernie – someone who has played and won on the national college stage. (BQ never won the big one, even if the defense failed him, i.e., he never WON).

No one here is calling him “the one”. At least I don’t think so yet, but we can all hope.

This post has some truth. We think they are good until they suck and then we want them gone. That entire process can take one game. I will say this though… he looked way better in this game against a top defense than any of our QBs have looked so far this year against any team we have played. That is good enough for me to give him the start for the rest of the year.

Yes, exactly.

completely agreed. there is every reason to be optimistic about his potential given the circumstances into which he was dropped, but we need more than just one game to get too aroused.

that said, is there any reason not to start this guy for the rest of the season? i mean, we ain’t challenging for the playoffs…

Rec. It’s amazing how quick browns fans can jump on the bandwagon for players so quickly. It’s like a never ending cycle of Suggs, Quinns and Wrights. How about we let these players earn their praise before the fellating begins

I never thought Anderson was anything more than the new Mike Phipps waiting for the next Brian Sipe to come along. I never thought Brady Quinn was the next Brian Sipe. His national press/media presence, largely due to good PR by Charlie Weiss, caused his potential to be exaggerated. But, as we all saw in the draft, GMs and Directors of Player Personnel were not fooled. Well, most of them weren’t.

It depends on your context right? His start would be termed mediocre maybe by the stats, but his debut would get rated higher when compared with most rookie debuts like Bradford, Claussen, Sanchez, Hall etc. It then gets even more luster if you factor in the defense, the stadium, and the fact that he was not prepped to play during training camp. I give the performance 4 outta 5 stars if you consider those factors.

However, I agree wholeheartedly with your point it is too early to annoint Colt “the future”. I do think he showed enough to get ample starts this year to see what we have. If he could demonstrate that he is a future starting QB – it would be huge not to draft a QB in the top 5 picks. The mistake we have to stop is thinking we have a QB when we don´t. We passed on Big Ben because we had 2 QBs in Couch Holcomb. We passed on Sanchez because we had DA and BQ. The old adage is true, when you think you have to QBs – you have none. I am strongly behind selecting a QB early, even if you risk a bust.

I second that.

Yup.

I wonder if LeBron is rooting for the 3-2 Dolphins now…

Thanks

Well done Bernie. As mentioned baby steps. I hope for some more positive steps this week. What a start, Steelers on the road now the defending champs on the road.

I’d float a 3rd rounder or Eric Wright to the Cowboys for Roy Williams or to the Bills for Lee Evans now and then take a wideout in the second round again next year.

McCoy is the FIRST QB where I stopped cringing everytime the ball went off the screen.

Yes. Best throw of the day, for sure.

And I nominate the TD pass for best play of the game. He felt the pressure, stepped up in the pocket, felt the pressure again, stepped out of the pocket, kept his eyes down field the entire time and threw a strike. It’s been a long time since we’ve had anyone who could do that and not have it look like a Chinese fire drill.

I was watching the WRs all day, and in their defense 2 were injured, but the Brown´s QBs really have to throw into tight windows. Evan Moore is competitive, has hands, but his receptions had to be absolute perfect throws. I think WR is prolly close to the number 1 need of the club. I think Eric now has no choice but to start Colt for the rest of the year to see if we need a QB in next year´s draft or not. I actually think Colt´s accuracy prolly make him the best QB for the club anyway. Jake´s judgement is not off the charts, Seneca is a real nice backup QB – but prolly not the long term answer. Not exactly what Holmgren wanted – but ni modo.

This was a good throw. If we ever had a stable receiving corps/QB situation, this is the kind of throw that will be completed because of chemistry: how hard does the receiver need to break out of that route? Will the ball be thrown to a different area based on the defenders and their proximity to the receiver? etc. This is the kind of “NFL throw” that a Browns QB needs to be able to make.

i’d also like to nominate the throw to evan moore on the right sideline as mccoy was rolling right on one of the final couple of drives for throw of the day. that was a big time throw, on the move, to the only possible place a brown could make the catch, like 25 yards downfield, in our territory when we had to move the chains. real deal throw there.

and kudos to moore for effectively executing the post up.

I was also impressed that he didn’t collapse after the INT on the first drive. He kept throwing intermediate throws, not check downs and 5 yard passes like Quinn would have.

It’s still the best performance we’ve gotten from a QB this year, if I may point that out. I looked at the stats last night… Besides McCoy, our best game from a QB was from Seneca Wallace. Colt McCoy threw for about 60 more yards than Wallace did in that game. I’m not sure how this affects the stat comparison, but McCoy threw 1 more INT than Wallace did in that game. But he also ran for (I think) about 10-15 more yards than Wallace.

It blows my mind that Colt McCoy did all this against the STEELERS. That really is exciting to me.

I did. It certainly wasn’t egregious, it wasn’t nearly as rotten as the helmet to helmet hits, but it adds to the overall classlessness of the Steelers whole team.

but as someone said yesterday, we’d have probably done the same thing in that situation, as would most of the other teams in the NFL.