@cdl15 said:

Didnt DA throw like 5TDs in his first start against cinncy???

@comeonman said:

Quinn has to be up there for best single game against Detroit in '09

Best Career Performance: Otto Graham. He would probably win this vs. any other QB in Pro football history. 10 consecutive championship game appearances. 7 wins. No one can match this.

Best Season: 1980 Brian Sipe MVP year

Best Game: Bernie Kosar, 1986 divisional playoff game vs. Jets. Brings Browns back from 10 pts behind to tie. Then wins in double OT. Sets the record that is still standing for most yards passing in a post season game. (is also, I believe still Browns best single game yard total)

Worst Career Performance. (Nominees include Weeden, Quinn, Frye). I have to go with Charlie Frye 6-13 career record. 14 TDs vs. 23 Ints. Unceremoniously shipped off after one game in 2007.

Worst Season. Doug Pederson. 2000. Went 1-7 as starter, had only 2 TDs in 8 starts, 8 ints.

Worst Game. To Be Announced later. Need to some thinking/research on this.

Best Performance by a Veteran in first year brought in to be the teams starting QB: Bill Nelsen, 1968. Went 9-2 as starter, took team to conference title game.

Worst Performance by a Veteran to be starting QB: George Ratterman, 1956 After those 10 straight title games, Ratterman brings first losing season to Browns. Went 1-3 with only 1 TD

Best Performance by a Relief QB to replace an injured/benched starter. Derek Anderson 2007. Went 10-5 replacing Charlie Frye.

Worst performance by a Relief QB to replace an injured/benched starter: Mike Pagel. Year after Browns go to AFC title game, Kosar gets hurt, Pagel goe 0-3 with 3 TDs 8 Ints. with a 46% completion rate.

Again, please feel free to name alternate winners in these categories or to name new awards.

Mike

@gftchris said:

The real reason - his skillset didn't suit Chorv's downfield offense, where Weeden's did...

Wheezy and skillset are two words that do not belong in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence...

@utzie said:

Jake was 2-2 as a starter for the Browns....compared to like Garcia's 3-9 or the like.

In reality, you might pop Dilfer/Garcia/Delhomme all in the same pot and it wouldn't matter who you pull out for best or worse.

I did not consider Jason Campbell in this category as he was not brought here to be the starter. (but his 1-7 record as a starter could get him the "worst of" trophy.

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@the-gipper said:

Do you guys think that Jake Delhomme would give Garcia a run for his money on this one? I remember everyone being really excited about him coming in before he got hurt and never really played again.

@the-gipper said:

Holcomb lost a shootout with the Bungles in 2004, 58-48 when he threw 5 TDs and 2 Ints.

Anderson won a shootout with the Bungles in 2007, 51-45 when he threw for 5 TDs and 1 Int.

It was the first game after Frye was traded and Anderson was given the job much to the chagrin of Quinns Queefs.

Zombo

Zombo said:

OK, maybe I am confuse. I thought that was Kelly Holcomb in that game? He was in a shootout with the Bengals.

WSS

@comeonman said:

Nice job in a losing effort, but Derek Anderson threw 5 TDS in 51-45 win over Cincy, that has to be the best.

Zombo

@gftchris said:

I believe, yes, that McCoy was a mercy pick, seeing that he had already dropped to the mid to lower 3d round, Holmgren had 2 erd round picks and took McCoy....a big name college QB, on a flyer. And that is what he was, a flyer. But once he got into the offense, Holmgren just didn't see the spark in Colt. Weak arm, not enough command of the offense.

So, they wanted a new big armed qb. Enter Weeden.. Had the arm, no doubt. Did not, apparently have the ability to grasp the offense or make that big arm work accurately enough for him. So, Sayonara BW3.

Now in comes JFF. Built a bit more like McCoy, slightly shorter, somewhat more moblile. A much better arm than McCoy. As strong as Weeden's? Probably not. But hopefully he is much more adept at reading defenses and in his accuracy.

So, the Fickle Finger of Fate Award in the category of:

QB in which the most hope for the future is placed: John Manziel.

@tml1138 said:

Here's the conspiracy version:

There were a lot of people - and careful before we set PG off again - that felt McCoy got shafted when they drafted Weeden. They could have given him another year in the WCO, which to be fair suits his skill set more than Weeden's, and used the 22nd pick on another receiver/blocker and seen what would have happened.

But, that didn't happen, and so there was a portion of the fanbase that wanted McCoy as starter, when Heckert and Holmgren had moved on to Weeden entirely, and just wanted to eliminate any QB debate.

The real reason - his skillset didn't suit Chorv's downfield offense, where Weeden's did, and they wanted other backups who could come in and run the same offense. McCoy's arm is notoriously weak, possibly due to the big shoulder injury he suffered in college, and he would have struggled to run that offense, so when we saw the chance to get some draft pick for him, we took it.

@gftchris said:

Why did we dump McCoy completely again? Surely he was a good enough backup for us...or is that just creating a bad blood situation?

The 49ers felt good enough with him as backup all the way up to the conference championship game...

Most 'stand-up' guy - Colt McCoy?

@the-gipper said:

And interesting....just who was the opponent on that 2007 Opening Game (except it was a home game)? And Browns played all three division opponents within the first four games that year, Ravens the 4th game (but Browns won). Not exactly an easy start to the season was it?