Written By Larry M. Glicken "LG"
The Cleveland Browns the team that has the best fans in the world are
now faced with a good old fashion quarterback controversy and the head
coach has no idea how to handle it. The fans that attended the Browns
home opener were already booing the Browns 28-year-old rookie Brandon
Weeden and they wanted to see Colt McCoy and get the Browns an opening
day win, something that hasn't been done in the past 7 years. Can you
blame the fans for being a little irate?
Why not, the Browns were close,
they were in a game that many picked for them to be out of by halftime.
The
Cleveland Browns defense all but gift wrapped the game for head coach
Pat Shurmur, by now the people who know football in the town have
already pegged Shurmur as a moron that has no business coaching football
in the NFL and Shumur himself placed the exclamation point on his
moron-ness by not going for the 2 point conversion when the Browns
defense scored their only touchdown.
Amazingly the Browns would end up
losing the game by the one point Shurmur denied the Browns from putting
on the scoreboard. What did that tell us Browns fans? Pat Shurmur
doesn't even have enough faith in his rookie Q.B. Weeden to let him go
for 2 points.
Here's a thought for you Shurmur, Josh Cribbs could
have tossed a touchdown pass for a 2 point conversion if you didn't want
to put Colt McCoy in the game. Yes that is right Shurmur, Cribbs can
throw the football, you pulled off a trick play with Benjamin, why not
pull one off with the guy the Browns had listed as their 3rd string Q.B.
before your sorry butt got to Cleveland?
No that we have that
out-of-the-way let's get down to the real problem the Browns fans are
facing. Sure the Browns have a new Q.B., sure this guy is a rookie and
sure we can't hurt the guy who is making millions of dollars to go out
and win football games feelings, or he might want to run back to
Oklahoma just like he did we he couldn't cut the mustard in major league
baseball. Yes folks Brandon Weeden comes from a failed baseball career
and he is now working on a failed football career.
Needless to say
it has been a rough couple of months for us here at CS-360. We happen
to tell it like it is and we use facts to back up our articles. One
fact I would like to point out to you is, Brandon Weeden playing for 4
quarters in a football game and finishing the day with a 5.1 Q.B. rating
is terrible.
It down right sucks. For those of you who think this can
improve, let me point out the obvious. If Weeden goes to Cincinnati to
play the Bengals and comes out with a 10.2 rating he would be twice as
good as he was lest week. If he comes out with a 15.3 he would be three
times better than he was last week, but guess what people, you aren't
going to win in the NFL with that kind of rating, trust me.
Now by
this time a lot of you fans are thinking this guy really hates Brandon
Weeden. Believe me when I tell you this, I don't hate anyone especially
Brandon Weeden. The reason I am writing this article is because this is
the kind of quarterback the Cleveland Browns hierarchy picked to stick
us Browns fans with.
Then Mike Holmgren, not Tom Heckert talked his
hand picked moron Pat Shurmur into keeping his mouth shut and naming
Weeden the Browns starter before they ever saw the Weeden panic,yes
panic that forces him to drop the football. Yes sir, even though the
Cleveland Browns front office had privilege to the same information on
Brandon Weeden as everyone else in the free world, they made the choice
to ignore it and just go with a self-made failure as their starting
quarterback.
There are people who make a living scouting guys in
College who play football, these are professional scouts, they know who
can get the job done and who won't be able to perform in the NFL. It is
hysterical how most of these scouts said Brandon Weeden can't take the
pressure of a pass rush.
It is even more hysterical how these same
scouts said if Weeden faces any pressure, he is prone to make mistakes
that will lead to turn overs. It is even more hysterical how the guys
running the Browns with the exception of Tom Heckert chose to ignore
everything the professional football scouts had to say about Brandon
Weeden. For those of you who are thinking I'm nuts, just google
everything you can find on Brandon Weeden. You'll find the information
these scouts reported, I did. Go ahead have a look.
Now that we
are smack in the middle of it, the good people running the team
Cleveland Loves the most, aren't going to say they made a mistake. They
are stuck with Brandon Weeden as the Browns starting quarterback. The
question is for how long do the fans who buy the tickets and support
this team have to put up with this garbage Shumur is putting on the
field? When you are 28 going on 29 you are pretty much set in your ways.
You have heard the saying a million times "you can't teach an old dog a
new trick". That is what we the fans of the Cleveland Browns have here
folks. We have an old dog that can't learn new tricks.
To make
maters worse, we have a new head coach that has no business being in
this position, he doesn't possess the experience to know how to correct
the situation. When you put these 2 problems together, you end up with a
losing football team. When you have a guy playing Q.B. for your team
that is afraid to take a hit in your backfield you have a problem. You
either are born with the courage to get the job done or you are going to
be squeamish and make a ton of mistakes. I believe we have the later
with Brandon Weeden.
People were down on CS-360 in the preseason
when I pointed out the obvious, now that others are seeing it in the
regular season they don't think I was to far off. Yet you have the fans
who think there is some kind of magic pill they have in the locker room
and by this Sunday Brandon Weeden is going to come out transformed into
the next Joe Montana.
It isn't going to happen people. Brandon Weeden
is not going to turn the Browns into a winner. The head coach who has
refused to admit he was wrong is going to subject us to more of the
same. Shumur is the same guy who told us before the Browns final
preseason game how ready Brandon Weeden was, he is the same guy that
told us before the Eagles game how ready Weeden was, he is the same guy
who has no answers as to how correct the situation. Shurmur said Weeden
needs to throw the ball better.
If Shurmur was telling the truth
when he told the fans how ready Weeden was, then the Browns have a coach
running the team that doesn't know what ready is. Now that's a
problem.... A lot of people tell me I am not a football coach and I
wouldn't know what to do in this situation. I can tell you this, I have a
lot of common sense something the people who are presently running the
Browns lack. I would have waited to see how Brandon Weeden performed in
a couple of preseason games before naming him the starting Q.B.
Especially after ready the scouting reports on Brandon Weeden. Better
yet I would not have drafted Brandon Weeden in the first place, I would
have taken players who would have improved the Browns as a team....
Larry Glicken is the owner of www.clevelandsports360.com and the host of the Cleveland Sports 360 Show, an online streaming sports video show at www.streamingsportstalk.com
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