Marking Out for the Browns
October 13, 2014Bryant out for season, Mack’s season all but over
October 13, 2014From the former Browns mega-file, we have news from Washington where the post-RG3 plans aren’t going so well. At one time Kirk Cousins was a hot QB name for Cleveland Browns fans in search of an answer. Running Kyle Shanahan’s system, Cousins had rolled the Browns to death in a game, and conventional wisdom was that he might be a logical trade target. Now, he might not even be able to retain the backup role behind RG3 as the team has tired of Cousins’ interceptions and could turn the team over to Colt McCoy.
“This is the NFL; you’re in the NFL because you’re exceptional,” Mitchell said on Comcast SportsNet’s post-game show. “You’re better than the other people out there. You’re supposed to be able to make plays that other guys don’t make. And I think we have to hold Kirk to the same standard we held Robert to. And if Kirk Cousins can’t get the job done, then there’s another quarterback sitting there.
That other quarterback sitting there is Colt McCoy. Say what you want about Colt McCoy and what he’s not, but I think Colt is a pretty capable backup NFL quarterback. I will take it to my grave that I think the Browns would have been well-served to let Colt McCoy start the season the year they drafted Brandon Weeden.
This isn’t because I thought Colt McCoy was the second coming, but because he was a hard worker, who seemed to prepare well and at times had done a good job of not turning the ball over. It might not have made a difference in the grand scheme of things, but one thing’s for sure. It couldn’t have been much worse of an experience for Browns fans than watching Brandon Weeden go 12-35 for 118 yards and four interceptions to open the season against an Eagles team that ended up the season with a worse record than the Browns’ own pitiful 5-11.
Back to Washington…
If Kirk Cousins is turning the ball over at a high rate, it might just be worthwhile to turn to McCoy as the 2-4 Tennessee Titans come to town. It might be their version of “Jason Campbell is better than Brandon Weeden,” which Browns fans were left with after Hoyer got hurt a year ago, but at least that’s something. The only thing worse than a guy who is a turnover machine like Brandon Weeden is not having someone to step in and at least make the team watchable. At this point in his career, I wouldn’t want to say much about Colt McCoy, but I think it’s possible he might be able to make football watchable until RG3 comes back.
So let’s just say I’m willing to deal with the “problem” the Browns have with Brian Hoyer playing well and Johnny Manziel on the bench.
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Wish Colt well because I have nothing but pity for him regarding his time here. A guy with limited talent has to be surrounded by a little competence to have any chance at NFL success, but between Brian Dabol and Pat Shurmur and receivers like Robiskie he had no chance. Not saying he would have been be a quality starter elsewhere, just saying this place was nothing but a career meat grinder for quarterbacks, and I’d be happy to see a decent guy like that salvage a career holding a clipboard and spot starting. And you never know, when QBs hang around long enough they sometimes get savvy enough to become effective in the right system.
Oh, Danny boy, the Titans, the Titans, are calling . . .
Well said.
” And you never know, when QBs hang around long enough they sometimes get savvy enough to become effective in the right system.”
http://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/brian-hoyer-and-johnny-manziel-happy-after-beating-saints.gif
and who is sideburn dude in the orange tie who keeps appearing next to Hoyer when he’s getting huggies or walking off the field triumphantly – Jerry McGuire? Feel like he’s about to take out his phone and yell “You’re gonna pay us now, right Ray?”
You know those old cartoons where there’s a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other? Well, I’m pretty sure that dude is Johnny Manziel’s conscience. In the next gif, he gently corrects John Q Pigskin for mouthing the f-word when he congratulated Hoyer.
used to be Jiminy Cricket-size, but after an off-season hanging with Johnny …
Regardless, tough job, competing with the colossus that is his sinful nature . . .
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If he wore a hidden sideburn cam, that would be something Roger Goodell might wanna deny having received.
So . . . I was right!
do you mind, Craig? Garry and I were this close to breaking the case. Sheesh …
Wow, nice thread. Nerd Club’s John and Paul are makin’ music.
So what was Colt’s excuse in San Francisco then. No talent around him? Maybe he just sucks, go back and watch some film of him throwing those 4 yard outs on 4th and 9, it will make you cringe. If he was NFL ready he would still be under Harbaugh’s tutelage in the bay area but he was absolutely terrible for the 49ers in the preseason.
Thanks, George.
Colt can’t throw outs and teams will continue to press him until he proves otherwise.
Oh yeah? How’d Hoyer look under Shanahan in the preseason? Saddle the Colt!
Hoyer didn’t get cut. Ex Brown QBs just dont pan out.
Speaking of Weeden…
Imagine Dallas winning its next two but losing Romo for the year leaving them to hand a 7-1 team to Weeden rift before the trade deadline.
Farmer better be pulling up that Carson Palmer trade file for quick reference.
I was in DC for the weekend and had the “opportunity” to listen to a lot of DC sports talk. While the bar for good sports talk is set really, really, really, really low, DC was a unique (read awful) creature.
A lot of people love RG3 because he’s talented. Others despise him because he’s black.
Some love Cousins because he’s not RG3. Many hate him because he’s not very good at football.
Finally, some simply want to blow it up and watch it burn. I like those people..
I am biased, but at least Cleveland sports fans acknowledge that our teams are (generally) bad and should be bad. DC fans can’t seem to (1) acknowledge that their team is bad because it should be bad; and (2) stop the Ebola outbreak.