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August 20, 2014Braxton Miller to return to Ohio State in 2015
August 20, 2014In an email release, the Cleveland Browns have named Brian Hoyer the starting quarterback.
From head coach Mike Pettine:
“He was the clear leader from the beginning. We’ve maintained all along that if it was close, I would prefer to go with the more experienced player. Brian has done a great job in the meeting rooms and with his teammates on the practice field and in the locker room.”
The release stated that the coaching staff wanted to name a starter this week to begin building cohesion on the offensive side of the ball.
Pettine also praised the work that Manziel has put into camp and the progress he’s made.
“He’s certainly made great strides. We are pleased with where he is, and he has shown that he has come a long way in his ability to pick up the playbook, be coachable and lead an offense. We are confident that Johnny is going to have a great future, but we just felt that Brian still had a decided edge on him.”
The team was informed at a meeting this morning. No word on how many fingers Manziel used during said meeting.1
[Related: Shanahan blasted in critique of Hoyer and Manziel]
(Photo: Scott Sargent/WFNY)
- As a side note, it is very interesting that the QB competition story that everyone has been waiting for was basically handed to Vic Carucci to break. Carucci, of course, is employed by the team. [↩]
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The only logical decision. Now, let’s get started!
Brian Axel Hoyer, starting QB. Cue the music.
http://youtu.be/IqG1l4lScsg
ESPN just exploded. I guess I will be watching Fox Sports now…
“As a side note, it was interesting that the QB competition story that everyone has been waiting for was basically handed to Vic Carucci to break, who of course is employed by the team.”
Why is this interesting?
Glad they settled on someone. Now we can eliminate all the sloppiness and actually look like a real team out there, with uniforms and everything
Good.
They are shielding themselves from reporter scrutiny for the timebeing
“We’ll take into account all things quarterbacks A to Z, so it’s a body of work,” Pettine said on a conference call. “It’s everything from the time they set foot in the building back in the spring up until today.”
I’m glad the takeaway from Pettine’s quote isn’t the middle finger, or the swan or Justin Bieber or other similar garbage. Since neither QB lit it up on the field, it sounds like Hoyer just had the leadership, the poise and the head start. Now time to start performing Brian. The clock is ticking
Temporary relief. Was tired of hearing about Johnny the day before the draft. Now a two week break until after the opener when, no matter what, the national media starts up with “when will Johnny start?”
In the mean time, ESPN has 3 full days to fake complain about all the Johnny Hype they stoked and recalibrate to Kevin Love/LeBron/Kyrie.
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Until later today?
Can’t wait for the bye week.
I’m just glad they picked a starter. I don’t believe either one is going to light up the world, but one of them needs to get all the reps with the ones.
Zac Jackson of FSO: In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given and everything is earned. Except the quarterback job; they had to give it to somebody, I guess.
Yeah, Johnny may not be God’s gift to football, but he was God’s gift to ESPN.
But I’m sure they’ll still have a Johnny Cam trained on him anyway, just to show how awesome he is at taking notes or whatever he’ll be doing.
Brian still had a decided edge on him.
which is why they needed to wait until Wednesday? don’t know why he couldn’t say that it was a close race, they both sucked on MNF, but Brian is the guy who understands defenses better and we need that experience.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
It’s just coach speak.
He also has to say things to show full confidence.
I agree it’s coachspeak, but I don’t agree that he has to show full confidence. I think that is absolute garbage and a huge pet peeve of mine. He can say that he won the job, he has these strong characteristics without giving the “full” lines that everyone knows are garbage. I honestly think that coaches/teams go too far on this stuff. They are big boys, they can handle it and the locker room is smart enough to ignore the words and watch the actions.
I’m just happy Pettine made a decision. After watching two preseason games and reading millions of tweets from practice play-by-play, I’m not sure how any Browns fan could take a stance of “WE REALLY NEED TO START (Hoyer/Manziel) OR ELSE THE BROWNS WON’T WIN!!” They both look like flawed QBs who are capable of winning some games. I have no reason not to trust Mike Pettine and his coaches at this point.
I can only imagine how badly Skip Bayless is freaking out on First Take right now.
Now the new national nightmare begins: Torturous analysis of every Hoyer pass, hand-off, scramble, and nose blow, wondering, debating, clamoring over when he gets the hook and Johnny gets the nod.
Well, he didn’t play well when he had half confidence.
Also, everybody likes a pat on the back.
WFNY sure likes scouring the photo archives for Propecia Man checking out the QB’s junk. With this one maybe we can all retire the one featuring the Weeden grab.
Jimmy just wants to make sure that his QBs have the whole package.
How do you think he got the nickname Jimmy?
As an aside, the Browns announced he’s no longer welcome in the locker room.
Is any serious Browns fan/observer surprised?
I would assume veryone will have time to get on message
Because members of the media typically don’t pen press releases. “Senior Editor” shouldn’t be synonymous with “Public Relations.”
#JoshGordonRulingTenTimesMoreImportantThanQBDecision
“He can say that he won the job, he has these strong characteristics without giving the “full” lines that everyone knows are garbage. I honestly think that coaches/teams go too far on this stuff. They are big boys, they can handle it and the locker room is smart enough to ignore the words and watch the actions.”
Who knows what Pettine is saying to these guys in the locker room? I believe it to be naive to assume they’re getting pats on the back at all times throughout camp.
likely the hardest part of a coaches job. knowing when to give the pat on the back and when to give the boot to the behind.
today Brian got the pat and Josh got the boot.
I agree and know that they are likely getting lots of constructive criticism. I just would prefer the coach being more straight on his answers. It can be done without giving a ton of fodder to the press and was one of the things I liked about Pettine’s pressers until the past couple of days.
You guys just don’t understand. Jimmy is making absolutely sure that Brian gets his sample into the cup. We cannot afford our starting QB to fail a PED test due to a “missed sample” afterall.
I’m just confused because he works for the Browns (media/PR department), and just don’t consider him media anymore.
It’s not so bad for ESPN. Now they can start stoking the FREE MANZIEL hysteria. The Browns losing to Pittsburgh is going to be blood in the water. I hope for Hoyer’s sake that they can get a win before the bye week to shut them up.
I thought Hoyer has good accuracy.
He did last year but he’s been spraying it all over the field in preseason thus far.
Ha haaaaa!
Hey, we better stop before we all get detention.
But he’s not spinning the story, he’s reporting it. Is it that different than if they sent a press release to Adam Schefter?
I think Scott’s point is that the Browns’ media department is supposedly separate/real journalism and not a PR arm. (But I don’t think it’s problematic as posted above.)
Interestingly enough Hoyer makes the league minimum.
It’s an amazement to me the Browns have any serious fans remaining.
I would plead entrapment over Rick using that particular photograph.
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what? how can they stop FREE MANZIEL HYSTERIA when MANZIEL IS NOT FREE YET?
any fan that has been through the last 20 years has to be Derek Anderson serious to still be one.