Here we go, another season, another QB controversy. Problem is, don't you have to have QB's to have a controversy? Well, let us see if we, or rather the Browns do have one.
Did anyone out there REALLY think Jake Delhomme was the answer? And for that matter, Senaca Wallace also? Colt McCoy as a 3rd round pick is added into the mix also. So, tell me, who is behind center #1, center #2, or center #3? #1-Jake, give his due, looked good in preseason, and the first game. Sure he had some questionable decisions, but at least the Browns were in the game, unlike many games last year. Then he got hurt and was gone for the duration until Sunday's 2nd half. I do sleep at time at a Holiday Inn and therefore, to my make-believe doctor's eye, he is still hurt and should not have been in. But what else was available. But he was in for #2-Seneca.
Senaca did show that given some time to work with the 1's, he could move the team and did get a win. Also, the team played hard and again was in the games until the final quarter. Then HE got hurt on Sunday and back in comes Jake. Was the game winnable? With the way the D was performing, any kind of offense, yes ANY kind of offense could have given the team W#2.
This now brings us to #3-Colt. When he was drafted, the Browns Brass stated he would not play this year, and would sit; practice and learn. In other words, he was drafted, then "red-shirted"! Do the Browns waste his red-shirt year and let him play? Do they stick to their pre-season guns and keep him on the sidelines? Should the Browns get another QB? (at the time of the posting, Brett Ratliffe is apparently on his way to C'Town). Not to mention the opponent next week!
So what do we, er Browns do? Here is one fan's opinion. Stick to the guns. Keep Colt firmly planted on the bench. Use Ratliffe; more Josh in the flash, and if needed put Jake on DL and get another QB after Pittspuke game. Bye week gives needed time. Face it, this was going to be a rebuilding year, NO MATTER WHAT! The defense was front and center and it has been playing well better than last year. Couple of broken plays and who knows what could have been.
Next year, go offense in draft. Get the wideouts solely missing, sorry guys, but neither one of you are a threat to a team's D. If Harrison is not used now, then when? So hope Hadestry returns, but maybe another RB is needed. And the final point, which now brings us full circle, what should be done at QB? See, I told you what not to do to have a QB controversy, but it cannot be avoided.
Starting QB #16 since '99 and counting!!
Oct 5, 2010
now what?
It has been a long while since I last posted. New computer set-up; personal activities; and that damn thing called work! But I have found a little time during a lunch break to dive back in and try to get caught up with a cornucopia of items to back into the swing of things. So here I go.
Now that the NBA season is about to begin, do you feel like, that the past seven years really gave me (or us) nothing? Or, is it all about the process and how it all went down, not to S. Beach, but all ended? Funny, I miss the player not at all. I do miss the thought that we had the players that could have, and should have brought a championship to C'Town before the clown-car traveled to the state of 4-o'clock meal deals. How can a group of players that had the best record in the NBA 2 straight yrs., not accomplish anything? The CLUE is in the sentence, and I'll wait to see if you find it. Tick-tock; tick-tock; tick-tock...give up? Can't find it? Well of course you can't find it, because it is a word that is missing, not really the player. The word missing is spelled T-E-A-M! That's correct I never mentioned the word "team" because there wasn't a team. Oh sure by all standards the CAVS were an NBA team, but in name only. It was a collection of tremendous individual players who were brought together to form a team, that did not play as a team. Sure they had great pre-game routines; had great games during the season; but when the time came to step it up, nothing!
Okay, you say that the season meant something...oh really? Meant what? seeding...home court...TV time? So, what did it get me (0r us)? Two so-so series, one that should not have been as close as it was. Then when all the season issues should have meant something....FLOP FLOP FLOP!!! The elbow; the shutting out the coach; the personal issues off the court..anything but high level, top of the grade, basketball. All I can see in a season recap, is a player looking to something; someone; someplace but not at the Q. THE player of the year in '08 and '09 giving me that deer in the headlights look against the TEAM from Beantown!! TEAM! That word!
What I found out for absolute is that a TEAM can win it all, whereas a collection of players may not win anything. Will this thought hold up in NBA '10? Don't know and really don't give a damn or care! Don't care? Yep, you read it right. Cause I have this strange feeling that this CAVS TEAM will play the game as a TEAM and I'm good with that, Win Lose or Draw! (oops no draws in NBA, but you get my point.)
Now the Browns....To be continued!!!
Now that the NBA season is about to begin, do you feel like, that the past seven years really gave me (or us) nothing? Or, is it all about the process and how it all went down, not to S. Beach, but all ended? Funny, I miss the player not at all. I do miss the thought that we had the players that could have, and should have brought a championship to C'Town before the clown-car traveled to the state of 4-o'clock meal deals. How can a group of players that had the best record in the NBA 2 straight yrs., not accomplish anything? The CLUE is in the sentence, and I'll wait to see if you find it. Tick-tock; tick-tock; tick-tock...give up? Can't find it? Well of course you can't find it, because it is a word that is missing, not really the player. The word missing is spelled T-E-A-M! That's correct I never mentioned the word "team" because there wasn't a team. Oh sure by all standards the CAVS were an NBA team, but in name only. It was a collection of tremendous individual players who were brought together to form a team, that did not play as a team. Sure they had great pre-game routines; had great games during the season; but when the time came to step it up, nothing!
Okay, you say that the season meant something...oh really? Meant what? seeding...home court...TV time? So, what did it get me (0r us)? Two so-so series, one that should not have been as close as it was. Then when all the season issues should have meant something....FLOP FLOP FLOP!!! The elbow; the shutting out the coach; the personal issues off the court..anything but high level, top of the grade, basketball. All I can see in a season recap, is a player looking to something; someone; someplace but not at the Q. THE player of the year in '08 and '09 giving me that deer in the headlights look against the TEAM from Beantown!! TEAM! That word!
What I found out for absolute is that a TEAM can win it all, whereas a collection of players may not win anything. Will this thought hold up in NBA '10? Don't know and really don't give a damn or care! Don't care? Yep, you read it right. Cause I have this strange feeling that this CAVS TEAM will play the game as a TEAM and I'm good with that, Win Lose or Draw! (oops no draws in NBA, but you get my point.)
Now the Browns....To be continued!!!
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