Colt Organizes Workouts In Atx With Teammates
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy will organize workouts for his offensive teammates this week in Austin, Texas, The Plain Dealer reported Thursday.
McCoy grew up in Texas and starred at the University of Texas in Austin from 2006 to 2009.
The newspaper's source said Browns wide receivers Josh Cribbs, Mohamed Massaquoi, Brian Robiski, Carlton Mitchell and Jordan Norwood were among those headed to Texas. Running back Peyton Hillis also planned to attend.
"I think it's great," Browns general manager Tom Heckert told the newspaper about the workouts. "If they do it, great. If they don't do it, I don't think it's a big deal. They'll be ready when it's time to go."
Massaquoi wrote Wednesday night on his Twitter account that he was "Finally packed and ready for Autin, Tx." Cribbs wrote Wednesday night that he was packing for Texas and posted Thursday morning that he was on his way.
Players and coaches haven't been permitted to have any contact since league owners imposed a lockout March 12. According to The Plain Dealer, McCoy was given a copy of new coach Pat Shurmur's playbook before the lockout began.
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per twitter:
@JoshCribbs16
Josh Cribbs
On the plane in Houston headed 2 Austin, austin is browns base camp 4 a couple days....
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evan moore is supposed to go to atx to workout with them to.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy will organize workouts for his offensive teammates this week in Austin, Texas, The Plain Dealer reported Thursday.
McCoy grew up in Texas and starred at the University of Texas in Austin from 2006 to 2009.
The newspaper's source said Browns wide receivers Josh Cribbs, Mohamed Massaquoi, Brian Robiski, Carlton Mitchell and Jordan Norwood were among those headed to Texas. Running back Peyton Hillis also planned to attend.
"I think it's great," Browns general manager Tom Heckert told the newspaper about the workouts. "If they do it, great. If they don't do it, I don't think it's a big deal. They'll be ready when it's time to go."
Massaquoi wrote Wednesday night on his Twitter account that he was "Finally packed and ready for Autin, Tx." Cribbs wrote Wednesday night that he was packing for Texas and posted Thursday morning that he was on his way.
Players and coaches haven't been permitted to have any contact since league owners imposed a lockout March 12. According to The Plain Dealer, McCoy was given a copy of new coach Pat Shurmur's playbook before the lockout began.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy will organize workouts for his offensive teammates this week in Austin, Texas,
Leadership. Nice job Colt.
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I think one of the biggest things that could help is Colt convincing Wallace to go to help everyone learn the WCO.
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nice to see colt stepping up. we'll see how it works out when/if the season starts. every year im pumped to see the season start, now more than ever.
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I think one of the biggest things that could help is Colt convincing Wallace to go to help everyone learn the WCO.
Hillis-iz-Boss said:
I think one of the biggest things that could help is Colt convincing Wallace to go to help everyone learn the WCO.
good point. that would be a good move by him. i hope some of the other guys get involved in this to. nice job, colt!
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nice to see colt stepping up. we'll see how it works out when/if the season starts. every year im pumped to see the season start, now more than ever.
nice to see colt stepping up. we'll see how it works out when/if the season starts. every year im pumped to see the season start, now more than ever.
i'm really excited to see how this all pans out. it's great to have a front office on the same page. we'll get to see how it all starts next thursday. CAN'T WAIT!
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@JoshCribbs16
Josh Cribbs
In Austin ready 2 put some work in, @ColtMcCoy picked us all up in a tractor with a hitch on the back, but that's kool we making it work lol
1 hour ago via TweetDeck
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@JoshCribbs16
Josh Cribbs
In Austin ready 2 put some work in, @ColtMcCoy picked us all up in a tractor with a hitch on the back, but that's kool we making it work lol
1 hour ago via TweetDeck
@JoshCribbs16
Josh Cribbs
In Austin ready 2 put some work in, @ColtMcCoy picked us all up in a tractor with a hitch on the back, but that's kool we making it work lol
1 hour ago via TweetDeck
reminds me of the drive your tractor to school days at school.
anyway good to see them having fun and since they have the playbook it will give a huge leg up. hopefully they do this again after the draft to get the rookies in on it all.
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This is the difference between good and great teams, players that get to know each other in and out...Those little seconds in the game when you trust the other player to be on the same page as you is the biggest thing you can have...
Even if there where no lockout id say every team should do this if they wanna win the superbowl but this is great for the Browns and ecspically Colt McCoy...He will be a good NFL football QB and make all those other teams look like fools for passing on him
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Absolutely. I wonder which of them is in culture shock being in Austin and saying WTF. LOL
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That is class ! When the players love the GAME, and have character, you have the op to do this kind of stuff. Really nice job of all the guys that go...
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Glad to see Mitchell is going too. Hopefully this will help him out and get him to be part of the team. Colt is showing what leadership is supposed to be and it's great to see at a young age. I feel that Colt plays above his talent level (even though he is really talented) because of his love for the game and his drive. I have a feeling the Colt will be around here a long time.
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Glad to see Mitchell is going too. Hopefully this will help him out and get him to be part of the team. Colt is showing what leadership is supposed to be and it's great to see at a young age. I feel that Colt plays above his talent level (even though he is really talented) because of his love for the game and his drive. I have a feeling the Colt will be around here a long time.
Glad to see Mitchell is going too. Hopefully this will help him out and get him to be part of the team. Colt is showing what leadership is supposed to be and it's great to see at a young age. I feel that Colt plays above his talent level (even though he is really talented) because of his love for the game and his drive. I have a feeling the Colt will be around here a long time.
I'm happy to see Norwood coming. The kid only got off the practice squad for the last few games and is now trying to make the best of his position. I would assume Windsor would be there if he wasn't tearing up the AFL in Arizona right now. Apparently he had a 250 yard 5 TD game last week.
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Absolutely. I wonder which of them is in culture shock being in Austin and saying WTF. LOL
Absolutely. I wonder which of them is in culture shock being in Austin and saying WTF. LOL
austin is a pretty hip place. it isn't crackerville like most of texas.
i think that what colt is doing is incredible and signals to me that he is assuming the role of leader of the team. exciting things are happening in brownsland. let's just hope that it produces at the very least a .500 season in 2011.
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This offseason could serve as a referendum on the hold that several young quarterbacks have over their respective teams.
Safe to say, Colt McCoy has passed the test.
Over the last month, McCoy has been the point man in organizing and planning to bring Cleveland Browns wide receivers, running backs and tight ends to Austin, Texas, for a three-day minicamp. That camp kicked off Thursday, with McCoy having secured lodging for his teammates and practice fields for them to run football-specific drills.
"I'm really excited to see the guys, that camaraderie is key, especially with Colt," Browns receiver/kick returner Josh Cribbs said after arriving in Texas. "He realizes if he's going to be the leader, it starts now. It's kind of a backyard thing, it has that feel to it, going to be out there like the 'Little Giants.' We don't even have a playbook. But we have our heads together, and we know it's important for us to meet as an offense."
Indeed, new coach Pat Shurmur hasn't been able to hand out playbooks, much less run any type of installation sessions with his new players.
To fill in the blanks, Cribbs said that he and his teammates have dug up film of last year's St. Louis Rams, for whom Shurmur was offensive coordinator, and come up with a makeshift version of the playbook to go through during field drills in Austin.
"We have to watch TV copies of St. Louis, mimic their routes, the structure of their offense," Cribbs said. "The idea is for it to be just like a practice day: Warm up, stretch, lift weights, and run first, then throw together as a group. ... We're doing bag drills, cone drills, and then we start throwing.
"I'm sure they're going to change (the offense) to fit the key guys on our team and, right now, it's not that important that we run specific routes, it's more important we run routes period. But you've been out of football for so long, you want to get back in the groove, and this is part of getting into it."
Up until now, Cribbs has been splitting time working out in Cleveland and at API in Los Angeles, and he's like everyone else -- waiting for the labor situation to be resolved. But in the meantime, he does understand the opportunity that's here for a young team to get an edge on its opponents. Cribbs says that after McCoy proved himself as "a gamer" last fall, and after seeing the leadership he has displayed the last month, he has "won us over."
What's happening in this locked-out April has Cribbs as excited for September as can be.
"Starting early is key," Cribbs said. "We don't know how long this (lockout) is going to be, but we've already scheduled our next (camp), and we plan to get together a lot of times and do what we need to do. When I first met Coach Shurmur, I told him, 'I just want to win.' And he looked at me and said, 'Me, too.' What we're doing now is going to help."
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so do they have a playbook or is cribbs just saying that? hope they have one to get an even bigger advantage going into the season.
either way its good they are doing a mini camp. the timing will be big when the season starts. and the routes will be similar, probably, to what was run in St.Louis
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so do they have a playbook or is cribbs just saying that? hope they have one to get an even bigger advantage going into the season.
either way its good they are doing a mini camp. the timing will be big when the season starts. and the routes will be similar, probably, to what was run in St.Louis
so do they have a playbook or is cribbs just saying that? hope they have one to get an even bigger advantage going into the season.
either way its good they are doing a mini camp. the timing will be big when the season starts. and the routes will be similar, probably, to what was run in St.Louis
Hardly matters now. In at most two days the judge is going to deny the Owners appeal, which will officially open FA and trades and allow all camps to happen. The soonest they will be locked out again is if the owners get the ruling they want that says the NFLPA is still running like a Union, which makes this ruling that the lockout is illegal void and restarts the lockout and that shouldn't be for at least 4 weeks. Unless I am getting this all wrong, which I could be because this is all confusing.
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