NFL Week 2 Running Thread

No. Clearly this is a job for ...



WLAT!

 

Were you just reading my conversation with Sam Mills? Because I think I made all those points when he was trying to tell me the "pieces" were all there.

 

2008 Browns = 2008 Indians - Cliff Lee

 

Nope, just venting my own personal disgust with this franchise. I mean, your general manager comes out and says this is the biggest game your team has ever played since the current regime came aboard, you're in a must-win game on national TV against your archrival (a team you haven't beat since Tim Couch was your QB) and THAT is the effort you come up with?

The name on the door is "Pretender."

 

The whole isn't coming close to outplaying the sum of its better parts.

 

Right. But rarely in sports does that happen, Sam. All-star teams aren't meant for week-in, week-out teamwork.

I see no chemistry on this team. At all. It's like everyone's at odds.

 

Whoa, IJAG ... not a fan of All-Star teams, either. If that were the case, the Redskins and Raiders would have fared much better over the last generation, given their owners fall in love too easily with big names.

Every team needs those glue players, the ones who may never make a Pro Bowl but bust their butts and garner respect from teammates and even the occasional opponent. A couple of overachievers and those with a strong locker room presence - even if they're not starters - tend to help.

All I said was that Cleveland seemed to have more pieces than your average 0-2 team. Not extraordinary, but not a team in need of solid drafts for years simply to upgrade a sorry roster.

 

I'd settle for one solid draft.

 

Hey they got Brady Quinn last year. So, you know, you've got that.

 

Then Derek Anderson outplayed him to get the starting nod. But for those draftniks, what was out there where the Browns got Quinn that would start and make a difference right away?

 

It wasn't even Anderson outplaying him, it was Quinn getting horrible advice and holding out.

You or I would have started over Quinn given the amount of practice he got last summer. Then Anderson blew up.

 

I dunno. My arm surprises some people, but my mobility makes Dan Marino looks like a gazelle. ;D

No doubt the holdout was dumb, but don't you think, more than a year later, that if he really were better, that Brady Quinn would be starting by now?