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Browns Organizational Love Has One Flaw

When Randy Lerner named Mike Holmgren as the football czar - it created unbridled optimism through the Dawg Pound.  A few months later, and no one is disappointed, as he has named solid leaders, opened up communication, and Mangini has responded with a class that many people thought he did not possess.

Still, there is one burning issue that bothers me.   How is it possible that Brian Daboll is an offensive coordinator that deserves to be retained, and BQ is a quarterback that has potential to lead this team?  I love Brady, hell - I even liked the picture of him in his Bernie Kosar football jersey when he was 5.   But either he has showed absolutely nothing, and we seriously need a QB - or Daboll is so bad as a coordinator that he deserved to be axed.

I tend to believe Daboll was a serious downer and perhaps Quinn has some potential in the tank.  What is key - is that the Browns get a solid backup plan at QB - just in case Daboll was not the problem.



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how do you get a feel of what brady is when you trade his #1 wr edwards #2 wr winslow even though hes a te, stallworth gets a dui. Then you got daboll with so little faith in our wrs he calls a screen every other play. If you have no deep threat you will have 8,9 in the box. I’m shocked we ran as good as we did the last part of the year. goes to show i think our o line is pretty good C to LT anyway. I agree how is daboll still here.

by staplefud on Feb 28, 2010 7:32 PM EST reply actions  

Still, there is one burning issue that bothers me. How is it possible that Brian Daboll is an offensive coordinator that deserves to be retained, and BQ is a quarterback that has potential to lead this team?

Isn’t this two issues?

by APV on Feb 28, 2010 7:33 PM EST reply actions  

Numbers are overrated.

by gahnki on Feb 28, 2010 7:49 PM EST up reply actions  

What he’s asking is how is it possible that BOTH are true. Acknowledging the fact that one may have severely hampered the other (resulting in the cluster-f we witnessed), it is therefore possible that either Daboll is worth keeping or Quinn is worth keeping (but not both, certainly).

Brady Quinn will never be a good quarterback for the Browns.

by danvail on Mar 2, 2010 7:23 AM EST up reply actions  

Cases can be made for and against both.

The sporting gods hate Cleveland, they give us false hopes, then yank it out from under us like a tablecloth.

by North Coast Flea on Mar 4, 2010 7:22 PM EST up reply actions  

I can almost guarentee that the Browns are working on a plan for the QB position — either bringing in a new starter or a solid backup plan in case Quinn doesn’t work out again. I’m certain we won’t be standing pat, so I wouldn’t worry.

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 28, 2010 7:39 PM EST reply actions  

Also, I’m not sure what the supposed “flaw” is about our organization. Let’s give these guys more time before we start finding flaws in their methods. After all, we haven’t even had the draft yet and you’re already complaining about the QB position! We have no idea who our QB is going to be in September.

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 28, 2010 7:41 PM EST reply actions  

Daboll was not good last year. My only hope is that he got caught up in trying to do too much with inexperienced and untalented players. It wouldn’t make sense for a guy to be able to work his way up the NFL coaching ranks if he were truly awful.

That would explain why we had no identity on offense until late in the year and why we looked so confused from the design on down to individual players at times.

Later in the year, he could have figured out that by trying to make an offense that does everything, he turned us in to a “jack of all trades but master of none”. From that point on, it looked like he simplified things and was able to better tailor the offense to the talent we did have. Either that or the players finally caught up to the playbook and we started executing.

It could be that Daboll is actually an intelligent guy who knows his Xs and Os and he just made the mistake of thinking he could get the whole team to understand what he did in a very short period of time.

Or he could just be a moron. I don’t think any of us sitting at our computers can really know.

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein

by rufio on Feb 28, 2010 9:14 PM EST reply actions  

At least Holmgren brought in his guy to work with Daboll now. So it’s as if Holmgren thinks Daboll has something to contribute.

Probably the only Cleveland Browns fan in all of Sydney, NSW.

by skipkirk on Feb 28, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions  

Right. I’m sure Holmgren spent plenty of time discussing offense with Daboll before deciding to retain him as coordinator. If he really didn’t know what he was doing then I doubt Holmgren would have kept him around. Hopefully he’s learned from his mistakes and will be much better next season with Holmgren’s help.

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 28, 2010 10:35 PM EST up reply actions  

Why Would We Train Daboll?

Go get a disciple that has worked with it for years!

by realmccoy on Mar 1, 2010 6:09 PM EST up reply actions  

They did.

His name is Gil Haskell.

by Bernie19Kosar on Mar 1, 2010 6:22 PM EST up reply actions  

Absolutely 100% correct! I’m sure Mike Holmgren has interviewed and talked with Daboll and he must have seen something he liked. And now he has hired Haskell on to mentor Daboll. I would not look to much into Daboll yet. Yes, I cursed some of the play calling he was doing last year, but at the same time we had no wide receivers, a horrible right side OL and two quarterbacks with 0% confidence thanks to Mangini.

by Kimble_79 on Mar 2, 2010 8:54 AM EST up reply actions  

He did improve as the season went on. The end of the season surge, showing he was growing as an OC, probably saved his job. It was his first season as OC. I too, was ready to can him midway through the season.

by Crazy Ray on Mar 2, 2010 11:00 PM EST up reply actions  

yes…the team lost all of its offensive firepower and we had to develop players. I am not a daboll fan by any stretch but he definitely didn’t have much to work with and looking back, it is not surprising it took a little while for the offense to find an identity. if he is horrible again this year, maybe then I might want to get rid of him…

by bross09 on Mar 1, 2010 12:50 AM EST up reply actions  

I don’t think any of us sitting at our computers can really know.

Which is why I have a Magic 8-ball. Hmmm. Looks like I’ll have to ask again later about Daboll.

by JustBob on Mar 2, 2010 9:34 PM EST up reply actions  

If Holmgren thinks Daboll deserves a second chance than that is good enough by me, he has over 1000X the football knowledge that I do, and I ain’t gonna lie, I was one of the people calling for Daboll’s head halfway through the season.

The sporting gods hate Cleveland, they give us false hopes, then yank it out from under us like a tablecloth.

by North Coast Flea on Mar 1, 2010 4:26 AM EST reply actions  

Offseason transactions haven’t even started yet, how can you be mad that we aren’t addressing the QB position?

by Roger Dorn on Mar 1, 2010 9:30 AM EST reply actions  

I was reading a post on the OBR a week or so ago. A topic was created by a user who said that he had high hopes for Holmgren but now has since lost faith because of the inaction and lack of moves.

by Roger Dorn on Mar 1, 2010 12:56 PM EST up reply actions  

Don’t you often wonder how people can be so clueless? I mean, if you care enough about the Browns to create a post on a website discussing the team, wouldn’t you at least make an effort to follow what’s going on and have a basic understanding of the draft and free agency? How can someone be so out of touch with reality? Or maybe they’re the type of person who always needs something to complain about.

by Buckeye Brad on Mar 1, 2010 1:18 PM EST up reply actions  

Or they could be 9.

Probably the only Cleveland Browns fan in all of Sydney, NSW.

by skipkirk on Mar 1, 2010 5:37 PM EST up reply actions  

Or both maybe.

The sporting gods hate Cleveland, they give us false hopes, then yank it out from under us like a tablecloth.

by North Coast Flea on Mar 1, 2010 9:49 PM EST up reply actions  

Why don’t people know that this is the NFL’s down time and that there are regulations?

If you're at the table and you don't see a sucker..... you're it.

by Brownie's Year on Mar 1, 2010 10:33 PM EST up reply actions  

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