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  • and, in oh so surprising fashion, connor shaw sustained a thumb injury that will require some surgery and time on the injury list....

    In the famous words of one Mr. Gomer Pyle......surprise, surprise, surprise.....😉

    @mudfly said:

    and, in oh so surprising fashion, connor shaw sustained a thumb injury that will require some surgery and time on the injury list....

    In the famous words of one Mr. Gomer Pyle......surprise, surprise, surprise..... 😉

    Wow! That's too bad but it'll help us protect him.

    I always thought Gomer's Pile was the got milk look above a Steelhead smile.

  • and, in oh so surprising fashion, connor shaw sustained a thumb injury that will require some surgery and time on the injury list....

    In the famous words of one Mr. Gomer Pyle......surprise, surprise, surprise.....😉

    @mudfly said:

    and, in oh so surprising fashion, connor shaw sustained a thumb injury that will require some surgery and time on the injury list....

    In the famous words of one Mr. Gomer Pyle......surprise, surprise, surprise.....😉

    So Shaw will get shelved, Thad will be the last cut with his agent's phone # saved under "QB Emergency" and Pryor will probably stick to roster and act as third QB.

    Z

  • @mudfly said:

    and, in oh so surprising fashion, connor shaw sustained a thumb injury that will require some surgery and time on the injury list....

    In the famous words of one Mr. Gomer Pyle......surprise, surprise, surprise..... 😉

    Wow! That's too bad but it'll help us protect him.

    I always thought Gomer's Pile was the got milk look above a Steelhead smile.

    @flugel said:

    Wow! ....... it'll help us protect him.

    Eggsactly....

    May be a total coincidence, but gotta say I think I saw this coming....

  • @mudfly said:

    and, in oh so surprising fashion, connor shaw sustained a thumb injury that will require some surgery and time on the injury list....

    In the famous words of one Mr. Gomer Pyle......surprise, surprise, surprise.....😉

    So Shaw will get shelved, Thad will be the last cut with his agent's phone # saved under "QB Emergency" and Pryor will probably stick to roster and act as third QB.

    Z

    Zombo said:

    So Shaw will get shelved, Thad will be the last cut with his agent's phone # saved under "QB Emergency" and Pryor will probably stick to roster and act as third QB.

    Ding ding ding....

    Only better move would have been a 2-fer announcing that, "Shaw and Mayle were thumb-wrestling when..."

    @flugel said:

    There's also times when this offense bootlegs a QB to one side of the field opposite the play action flow for a waggle pass. It's not from a QB panicking or getting flushed out - it's the design of the play.

    I pray that this enlightened no one here...

  • Zombo said:

    So Shaw will get shelved, Thad will be the last cut with his agent's phone # saved under "QB Emergency" and Pryor will probably stick to roster and act as third QB.

    Ding ding ding....

    Only better move would have been a 2-fer announcing that, "Shaw and Mayle were thumb-wrestling when..."

    @flugel said:

    There's also times when this offense bootlegs a QB to one side of the field opposite the play action flow for a waggle pass. It's not from a QB panicking or getting flushed out - it's the design of the play.

    I pray that this enlightened no one here...

    @tour2ma said:

    I pray that this enlightened no one here...

    I hear ya man. Unfortunately, I've read enough Manziel posts to warrant the need to type such a thing.

  • @tour2ma said:

    I pray that this enlightened no one here...

    I hear ya man. Unfortunately, I've read enough Manziel posts to warrant the need to type such a thing.

    @flugel said:

    I hear ya man. Unfortunately, I've read enough Manziel posts to warrant the need to type such a thing.

    Ah... you must mean the Aggies... Did not think about them... 😉

  • @flugel said:

    I hear ya man. Unfortunately, I've read enough Manziel posts to warrant the need to type such a thing.

    Ah... you must mean the Aggies... Did not think about them... 😉

    @tour2ma said:

    Ah... you must mean the Aggies... Did not think about them... 😉

    Nope.

  • Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

  • Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    @tacosman said:

    Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    where the fuck did you come from? can you get back on your plane train or automobile and do a Uey?

  • @tacosman said:

    Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    where the fuck did you come from? can you get back on your plane train or automobile and do a Uey?

    @miktoxic said:

    where the fuck did you come from? can you get back on your plane train or automobile and do a Uey?

    Obviously this guy knows his QBs. Everyone knows Kirkpatrick is a touch better.

    Z

  • It's apparent he isn't full of beans....

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  • So many things wrong with tacos post, hard to know where to start. But here goes.

    1. McCown is better than Hoyer.

    2. McCown knows and can run the offense.

    3. Johnny is 22. Just because he wasn't all-pro his rookie season doesn't mean he sucks for life. He was really bad last year, he's better this year, do you recognize a trend?

    4. McCown isn't meant to be the long-term answer, part of his job is mentoring Johnny, which by all accounts is working perfectly.

    It doesn't help that the AFC North is the toughest division in football either. But I still think the Browns can make the playoffs this year.

  • Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    @tacosman said:

    Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    The bottom line is our QB situation is atrocious NOW? When was it not atrocious? What's your point? What would you do if you were MP?
  • Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    @tacosman said:

    Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    McCown's career rating is higher than any Browns QB for the last decade.

    Your argument is done. Moving on.

  • @tacosman said:

    Yes, JM did look better in this preseason action. But what gets me is this: JM is currently the backup qb, and the starter is someone who IS TERRIBLE. And has BEEN TERRIBLE FOR OVER A DECADE. The guy has been in the nfl for 13 years(mostly as a backup, but enough playing time) and in those THIRTEEN YEARS he has only had one little stretch of good play(the 8 games with the bears, and even in those its misleading due to game pace, game situation, etc). The bottom line is that there is every reason to expect:

    1) Josh Mccown is a terrible qb. We have 13 years of terrible play(save for one 8 game stretch) to base that on. Even more importantly, his most recent performance completely blew goats just like 95% of his career, so there is no reason to believe that brief 8 game stretch is reproducable

    2) Josh Mccown will be TERRIBLE this year as qb. Simply because he's been terrible all his whole career. I'll laugh if by game 3 or whatever you guys are disappointed and frustrated by terrible qb play by Mcown. What else would you expect?

    So my concerns about our qb situation and Manziel going forward is that if he cant beat out Mclown(a terrible qb!), what does that mean? Worse, he's apparently not even close to beating out mclown!! How bad does one have to suck if MP is thinking "he's not even close to as good right now as a really really bad 13 year journeyman".....

    So either MP and the staff are incredibly stupid and poor evaluators, or JM really really really sucks(since Mclown really really sucks)

    The bottom line is that are qb situation is absolutely atrocious now. We're competing with the Jets and maybe a couple of other teams for dead last in terms of our qb situation. Although honestly Kirkpatrick is probably a touch better than McClown.

    McCown's career rating is higher than any Browns QB for the last decade.

    Your argument is done. Moving on.

    @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    McCown's career rating is higher than any Browns QB for the last decade.

    Your argument is done. Moving on.

    Well, overall, I am on your side of this argument. I think he will be really good this year.

    But his career rating is 76.1

    Hoyer, 76.8 ... 77.6 with the Browns

    Campbell, 81.7 ... 76.9 with the Browns

    McCoy, 78.2 ... but only 74.8 with the Browns

    Garcia 87.5 ... 76.7 with the Browns

    Holcomb 79.2 ... 83.3 with the Browns

    So ... no.

    Zombo

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    McCown's career rating is higher than any Browns QB for the last decade.

    Your argument is done. Moving on.

    Well, overall, I am on your side of this argument. I think he will be really good this year.

    But his career rating is 76.1

    Hoyer, 76.8 ... 77.6 with the Browns

    Campbell, 81.7 ... 76.9 with the Browns

    McCoy, 78.2 ... but only 74.8 with the Browns

    Garcia 87.5 ... 76.7 with the Browns

    Holcomb 79.2 ... 83.3 with the Browns

    So ... no.

    Zombo

    Zombo said:

    Well, overall, I am on your side of this argument. I think he will be really good this year.

    But his career rating is 76.1

    Hoyer, 76.8 ... 77.6 with the Browns

    Campbell, 81.7 ... 76.9 with the Browns

    McCoy, 78.2 ... but only 74.8 with the Browns

    Garcia 87.5 ... 76.7 with the Browns

    Holcomb 79.2 ... 83.3 with the Browns

    So ... no.

    Zombo

    A mobile Google search returns his rating as an 84.5, which is what I was basing my post off of.

    It seems that may be just his career rating as a starter, I guess.

    I'm actually not sure what structured data Google is pulling for their report. Whatever the variables are, they have McCown with a higher career rating than any other Browns QB in a long time.

    Now, to do some digging...

  • So apparently slight differences in quarterback rating are not really reliable predictors of success in the NFL. Fair to say?

    WSS

  • Zombo said:

    Well, overall, I am on your side of this argument. I think he will be really good this year.

    But his career rating is 76.1

    Hoyer, 76.8 ... 77.6 with the Browns

    Campbell, 81.7 ... 76.9 with the Browns

    McCoy, 78.2 ... but only 74.8 with the Browns

    Garcia 87.5 ... 76.7 with the Browns

    Holcomb 79.2 ... 83.3 with the Browns

    So ... no.

    Zombo

    A mobile Google search returns his rating as an 84.5, which is what I was basing my post off of.

    It seems that may be just his career rating as a starter, I guess.

    I'm actually not sure what structured data Google is pulling for their report. Whatever the variables are, they have McCown with a higher career rating than any other Browns QB in a long time.

    Now, to do some digging...

    @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    A mobile Google search returns his rating as an 84.5, which is what I was basing my post off of.

    It seems that may be just his career rating as a starter, I guess.

    I'm actually not sure what structured data Google is pulling for their report. Whatever the variables are, they have McCown with a higher career rating than any other Browns QB in a long time.

    Now, to do some digging...

    Ya, could be his rating as a starter versus other Browns as starters. suffice to say, none of them are too hot. I went back to 99 nad Holcomb's 83.3 was tops, but his best efforts were probably in relief as well.

    We haven't had an above average startng QB in 16 years. Not sure we've had too many "average" ones. The bar is not high.

    Zombo

  • I'm still trying to find tape on this Kirkpatrick guy...

    he sounds great...

    or at least not TERRIBLE...

    But all that keeps coming up is some mediocre, Bengal CB...

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    A mobile Google search returns his rating as an 84.5, which is what I was basing my post off of.

    It seems that may be just his career rating as a starter, I guess.

    I'm actually not sure what structured data Google is pulling for their report. Whatever the variables are, they have McCown with a higher career rating than any other Browns QB in a long time.

    Now, to do some digging...

    Ya, could be his rating as a starter versus other Browns as starters. suffice to say, none of them are too hot. I went back to 99 nad Holcomb's 83.3 was tops, but his best efforts were probably in relief as well.

    We haven't had an above average startng QB in 16 years. Not sure we've had too many "average" ones. The bar is not high.

    Zombo

    Zombo said:

    Ya, could be his rating as a starter versus other Browns as starters. suffice to say, none of them are too hot. I went back to 99 nad Holcomb's 83.3 was tops, but his best efforts were probably in relief as well.

    We haven't had an above average startng QB in 16 years. Not sure we've had too many "average" ones. The bar is not high.

    Zombo

    This is interesting.

    So, I think it's McCown's career with Chicago and TB, but nothing before that.

    Regardless, I was mistaken.

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