Quinn, Browns give putrid effort in another putrid loss
Eleven first downs, 160 total yards and zero points.
After two weeks to prepare for their opposition, that’s what the Cleveland Browns produced on Monday night in a 16-0 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Nobody should be surprised by the outcome of Monday night’s game in Cleveland. Everyone knew that the Browns were awful entering the game, but to actually watch that miserable excuse of a team stumble over themselves for 60 minutes is rather amazing. It’s like a car wreck – you just can’t look away.
Brady Quinn is bad, so bad that it’s safe to say that he has zero chance of becoming anything resembling a decent starting quarterback in the NFL. I’m fully aware that he has no talent around him, but I dare anyone to watch that kid play for entire game and tell me he has any shot of success in this league. His own coaching staff doesn’t trust him to throw the ball further than two feet and I wouldn’t either. The Monday Night Football crew kept begging for the Browns to throw the ball vertically and whenever Quinn did, he was either picked off or was so far off the mark with his passes that there wasn’t a receiver within 20 yards of where the ball ended up.
Again, I know that he doesn’t have anyone to throw to but there’s just no excuse for being that inept. The Browns didn’t even reach the Ravens’ 40-yard line tonight and don’t forget that this was a Baltimore defense that has struggled at times this year stopping the pass. On multiple occasions late in the game when he was trying to make a feeble attempt at throwing deep, Quinn tossed the ball completely out of bounds. That means he’s so inaccurate with his throws that he can’t even keep the ball in play. He even overthrew a receiver on a screen pass, which is so mind-boggling that it pisses me off just thinking about it.
How can Cleveland trust Quinn to throw the ball vertically when he can’t even complete a simple smoke screen?
I understand that Derek Anderson isn’t much better (he might even be worse), but the Browns can’t start Quinn again after tonight. Eric Mangini might as well start Brett Ratliff or hell, even Josh Cribbs (if he’s even okay after being carted off the field on the game’s final play) because neither Anderson nor Quinn could hit Shaun Rodgers in the ass if they were standing directly behind him. And neither is capable of running the dish washer at night, let alone running an NFL offense.
I just can’t believe that the Browns had two weeks to game plan for tonight and this was the best they could come up with offensively. Defensively they played a hell of a game, but Quinn and the offense were so bad that I might petition that the league strip the Ravens of their victory because it’s not fair that they get a free win and the rest of the league doesn’t.
What a horrible, abysmal, brutal performance by one of the worst teams in NFL history. The moron that decided to put the Browns on Monday night should be forced to watch a replay of that game 100 times as punishment and then whipped repeatedly by a Brady Quinn’s jock strap.
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Tags: Brady Quinn, Brett Ratliff, Cleveland Browns, Derek Anderson, Eric Mangini, Fire Eric Mangini, Josh Cribbs, Shaun Rodgers
Doesn’t help when he actually DOES hit a receiver on a slant with the middle of the field open and the guy drops it. OR when a receiver actually catches one of the bullets, he loses his feet when he’s got 3 yards on the defender and there isn’t another one within 15 yards of him. The receivers are almost as much to blame as Quinn himself.
I think a lot of people questioned his ability when he came from an over rated Notre Dame team.
This is just a sad offense right now. Even the almighty Tom Brady would look like crap on this team.
It’s embarrassing to be a Browns fan. This team is fucking pathetic and there’s no chance that’s changing this season.
I can’t believe I’m saying this again, but they need to start completely over with someone running the team who knows what the hell he’s doing. Holmgren is a name I keep hearing as a possibility in a Parcells-type role in the front office, and that’s exactly what they need. Fire Mangini yesterday — I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt early on but he’s awful — and let Holmgren (or whomever they hire) go get the coach he wants. I’d be fine with keeping Rob Ryan because the defense has shown flashes, but fire the rest of this awful coaching staff as well.
Then you go into next season with a real football guy calling the shots, a coach who is accountable to his front office and not the other way around, a decent financial outlook after unloading several big contracts and trading down in the first round last season, and best of all, a ton of picks in next year’s draft.
If they get the right people in place, the Browns are set up to potentially build a solid foundation of talent rather quickly beginning next season because of the multiple draft picks and financial flexibility. They just need to make sure the people using those draft picks know what the hell they’re doing. Because clearly, Mangini and his goons are clueless.
The “Mangenious” title was short lived….and to think he even had a cameo on The Soprano’s with said title….
It’s not just Quinn and Anderson Daboll is incompentant as an offensive coordinator. Neither QB looked this bad under Romeo. Mangini and Daboll both suck. The right side of the offensive live couldn’t block a chair!