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November 23, 2010Your Browns quarterback update is that we will see on Wednesday. Even with all the changes at the QB spot this year, isn’t it kind of refreshing that every move so far has been almost strictly due to health and injury? And who would have thought coming into this year that we would know the least about Jake Delhomme by this point in the season? As always, there is no need for controversy here. This is how I see it shaking out. If Colt McCoy is healthy, then he plays. Otherwise between Seneca Wallace and Jake Delhomme it doesn’t really matter.
In the event that Colt McCoy isn’t healthy and isn’t ready to go, I would have to guess Jake Delhomme will get the nod this week against Carolina. Delhomme had a nice pre-season. He had a bad opener against Tampa Bay and clearly wasn’t healthy enough to play against the pass rush of Atlanta. Still, he won the job out of training camp over Seneca Wallace. There is no reason to think today that given the choice between Seneca and Jake Delhomme that Seneca isn’t still the backup. Yesterday Eric Mangini told us that we would have to wait and see about Colt McCoy on Wednesday. He also told us that Jake Delhomme is 100% or as close to 100% as anyone ever is.
I am sure Seneca Wallace feels that he has made the case to be next up on the depth chart after Colt McCoy. I am sure some of you fans would rather see Wallace than Delhomme too. Seneca Wallace is 1-3 as Browns starter. He is 1-2 if you discount the Atlanta game that he had to depart due to his high ankle sprain. The Browns did have a 7-6 lead when Joe Thomas yielded to John Abraham around the left side. I wouldn’t complain if Seneca Wallace is Mangini’s choice after Colt McCoy. I can make the argument for Seneca Wallace without much difficulty.
That’s the nice thing about this season. Regardless of if it is Seneca Wallace or Jake Delhomme, it is nice to know that the only spot we are potentially debating right now is 2nd on the depth chart. That isn’t even to say that Colt McCoy is the second coming of Bernie Kosar or will forever more be the QB of the Cleveland Browns. You never really know that for sure. At one time the Bengals thought they were set for a decade with Carson Palmer. How do you think they feel today?
All you can know is the present. For this season, right now with what we have seen so far, it is his job to lose, even if by injury. In this Thanksgiving week, just be thankful that Mike Holmgren and Tom Heckert had the foresight to bring in two vets and a rookie while throwing out the old guard.
And more importantly than who plays at quarterback, let’s hope Pork Chop is ready to take over again at right tackle, right?
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I don’t care who plays quarterback this week.
If this team doesn’t beat the Panthers…
Let’s just hope they beat the Panthers.
how do you not start healthy delhomme versus the team he played in practice the last ten years? no-brainer.
(i would say the same in favor of wallace if we were playing the seahawks.)
Delhomme v. Wallace.
Washing dishes v. Taking out garbage.
Stifling T’Giving dinner comments v. sitting thru Glee to make family happy
Porkchop better be back or it won’t matter who’s QB
I agree with #2. I could see Mangini going with Delhomme because of his familiarity with the Panthers. Although if the right side of the line plays as badly as they did last week they should use Wallace because of his mobility.
This entire Colt McCoy situation shows the futerizing that Cleveland sports fans live in….when they’re not living in the past.
For a month all we’ve heard is “why doesn’t Mangini name McCoy the starter for the rest of the year”?
Well….DUH!
I asked when this first started how anyone could not see that the Browns were already down 2 QB’s after 6 games, what made them think McCoy would play 10 games without getting hurt?
Which brings up another issue – what is it with Mangini/Cranell (they play the same game, and coach the same)? How come QB’s just keep getting hurt one ofter the other – a few years ago the Browns were starting their 4th or 5th QB at the end of the season due to injuries.
I’m no expert, but it’s beginning to look like either all these guys coach linemen is how to run block – or they’re so busy using their WR’s as blockers for the TE’s and backs catching passes out of the backfield, that when these QB’s go back to pass, no one is open and they have to hold onto the ball for too long….resulting in scrambling and being injured when tackled.
Just a thought.
If McCoy isn’t healthy enough to play, this should be a true example of the situation where a player doesn’t lose his spot because of injury. We need to see how he plays and progresses, especially vs the division in winter conditions in NEO.
I think Seneca gives us the best chance to win at this point. We’ve seen that when push comes to shove the only way to get the ball down field is to have a mobile guy who can buy time for this scrap heap of a WR corp. to gain a few feet of separation.
That said if a guy that was spending his time changing pooey diapers a week and a half ago can come into Browns stadium and beat us I’m going to have major issues.
Carl: What else are we going to use the WR for?
I have an idea… you’re allowed 11 men on the field, right? Let’s just get rid of the WRs and get 2 more linemen and another back.
As long as St Claire is the right tackle it HAS to be Wallace. Delhomme has never been a mobile kind of guy…and now you want him in there with St Claire? Maybe we got rid of QB #4 too early
Man, the writing on this site can be atrocious at times. Read the opening line again. Really?
It’s not the most gramatically elegant solution, but it gets the point across. The quarterback situation is “we’ll see on Wednesday”. No?
I’m pretty sure these guys aren’t professional writers, cut them some slack. 🙂
First of all, this team needs more o-linemen. They are just like pitching in baseball; when you think you have enough, go out and get more. We should draft at least two more in the first 4 rounds of next years draft.
As for the QBs, all 3 are better than anyone we had last year, and I was an Anderson fan who thought he’d do much better in AZ with what I imagined was a better team.
I hate how we continually force people to read our site!!
Bad grammar is our way of psychologically torturing the masses.
Mr. Carl, what you have just said, is the most insanely idiotic thing I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
/Madison’d
McCoy is a rookie. I’d much prefer Wallace in at QB than Delhomme or McCoy. Mobility is key based on the right side of the OL. Until the right side is solidified, you need a QB that can escape the pocket. If you’re looking forward to next year, keep McCoy out and safe, use him for junk time in some of the games, use Delhomme as a third stringer.
what the frig does “futerizing” mean?
@Chuck:
Awesome avatar.
Futerize (v): to convert something from the solid, liquid, gas, or plasma phases of matter, to the Fute state.
Or to invent words (futurize) and then misspell them (futerize).
@5 – “I agree with #2”
I do too. I just hope whoever we start at QB doesn’t play like #2 🙂
(I ain’t talking about the commenter here folks. these are the jokes, you are supposed to laugh you know)
ESPN reporting that Jake Delhomme to start vs. Carolina