Browns Game Changing Offseason Moves: TE Ben Watson Should Assist Delhomme

But kind annoying

I do realize Kosar was a rookie, but he was a prolific passer in college. He also had the one of the greatest tight ends in history to throw to. He was not drafted to hand off, but I think the method was a sound one. Forcing the passing offense may have done more to hinder the confidence in Kosar than to build it. I guess what I am asking is do the Browns have enough of a rushing attack to help Delhomme help bring along a young offense?

If Delhomme is god awful, I don’t think he’ll last long. But I don’t think Holmgren would’ve went out and signed Jake if he thought he’d have an atrocious year.

Don’t you think that when a quarterback starts throwing the ball into bad spots and coverages to avoid sacks and to make plays

I believe that avoiding this will be Delhomme’s #1 assignment in our offense.

Watson is a veteran and a “pro” who didn’t get a lot of touches in NE and still played hard, he’ll be fine. The OL will be blocking on every play, they’ll be fine. The RBs should get plenty of work, they’ll be fine. It probably isn’t very good for young WRs to never be thrown the ball or never have to make a play, but I think we know we are a team without a #1 WR. Think New England with Givens/Branch/Patten. No one is going to flat-out dominate, but defenses will have to pick their poison. If everyone does their job, Delhomme doesn’t have to force anything anywhere.

The young guys need to be able to have some success (particularly Robiskie), but they also need to put on the man pants and make the right reads and do all of the things real WRs do.

We should be running because we are good at running. Not because we are young.

Steve Smith w/ Jake D (11 games): 55 YPG, 4 TD’s

Steve Smith w/ Matt Moore (In 4 games): 94.5 YPG, 3 TD’s

Just saying.

Steve Smith makes up for height with ridiculous speed, jumping ability and hands.

One of you two got it right, though both names would be mentioned in the piece.

Yuk.

Fool. It’s obviously got something to do with Joe Thomas. The game changing performance is probably something like this:

Browns Game Changing Offensive Moves: Realising LT Joe Thomas Is So Good, He Can Play Both Tackle Positions At Once

It’s gotta be Holmgren, for sure.

Interesting debate. The series title is “Game” changing moves, which leads me to thunk that the moves relate to specific changes we will notice on gameday. This leads me to think it is Fujita. Our LB corps has gone through the biggest change since Mangini arrived and Fujita is the poster boy for all of the moves. It started last year with the draftday trade, but dumping Wimbley and making DQ “expendable”. When Mangini started, we had DQ, Wimbley, McGinest, and Andra. 15 months later, we have Roth, Bowens, Fujita, and Gocong – plus a lot of flexibility and interchangeable parts. Pretty remarkable to see how far that completely disfunctional group has progressed.

To be fair, I want cheerleaders.

arguing about who was better between DA and quinn would be like arguing whether cat turds or dog turds smell worse.

I don’t think much of Delhomme.

I think we all got that the first twenty times you’ve mentioned it.

I would say that I am not upset with any of our QB’s, nor am I excited about any of our QB’s. Delhomme will show what he has left in the tank this year whether it be good or bad. Wallace I don’t know too much about other than he is very mobile and creates a running distraction for the defense. McCoy is still learning and we won’t know his potential until probably next year. Ratliff is just Ratliff. There are just too many unanswered questions that only time will reveal for me to have an opinion either way for any of our QB’s.

The offense definitely looks better right now, but I’d rather see how well that transitions from paper to the field first.

And if the passing game starts looking bad, it’s not an automatic that it will be the QB’s fault solely. If the problem is with the receivers or the (right side of) the line, then it won’t matter who is back there. (see Jeff Garcia comments in QB Preview Part I)

We had a good running game for 5 games last year. I am pretty optimistic that some of that will carry over to this year, but to expect it to be that good (where we just pummel people on the ground despite not having a passing game) is a little crazy, don’t you think?

I know we should have an improved offense, but I don’t think we are exactly a Minnesota or NYG in terms of having great pieces around a QB.