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September 18, 2015Though there was faint hope that quarterback Josh McCown would be cleared to practice and subsequently play this coming Sunday, Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine announced on Friday that Johnny Manziel will in fact start the team’s home opener against Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans.
McCown left the first quarter of Week 1’s loss to the New York Jets after an attempted dive in to the end zone resulted in the veteran being diagnosed with a concussion. Manziel came in and immediately found wide receiver Travis Benjamin for a 54-yard touchdown pass, but failed to navigate much of an offense from that point on. Manziel ultimately went 13-of-24 for 182 yards, one touchdown, and one interception, taking three sacks and fumbling twice.
Manziel had been taking reps with the first team all week in advance of Friday’s announcement. It is believed that Austin Davis, added just before the beginning of the season, will slot in as the team’s second-string quarterback on Sunday. McCown’s symptoms are “minor,” and he’s considered day-to-day.
[Related: Browns Film Room: A look at Johnny Manziel’s pre-snap reads and footwork in the pocket]
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Correction, every Monday. I forgot the “Winners and losers” articles are posted on Mondays.
Mariota isn’t the 2nd coming of Steve Young?
No way. If I’m stuck rooting for the Browns, then he can be stuck playing HOF level for millions and millions of dollars for the Browns.
Nobody can remember elbow issues? (Tim Couch)
on Erving: Browns plan from day-1 was to have him as the 6th man OL. I don’t get it. But, in 2014, they made a big stink about sticking Bitonio at LG in rookie-OTA and leaving him there to give him the “best chance for success”
2015 rolls around and Erving is learning all 5 OL positions from those same rookie-OTAs and they have him playing LT (he’s not an OT) in a friggin’ preseason game. they decided before they drafted him that he was the primary backup.
that said, if they are replacing Mack, it makes sense to get a guy in a year early and learn the plays. except that the Browns have never had a single season in their expansion era where they haven’t changed one of their co-ordinators.
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Who’s Tim Couch? But you are right. He did have elbow issues didn’t he? Damn!
Steve Young was just the first coming of Marcus Mariota.
Interesting debate here, boys. If I wanted to paint a picture of hope for the Browns, it would go something like this: They were 7-4 last year with Brian Hoyer. We loved Pett. We loved Farmer for snagging a bunch of key contributors (Crow, Gabriel, Kirksey, KaWaun, etc.) in late rounds and off the street. We loved Bitonio. Then Mack went down, the run game fell apart, Hoyer was exposed, and we had the Johnny disaster. But that could all be explained, rationally, by the Mack injury.
So if you believe McCown is as good as Hoyer, you believe the D will get back to form this week (it does have a lot of talent), and you believe the now healthy O-Line will get back the chemistry it had last year (all fairly reasonable things), then there is reason to believe this team will be competitive and potentially good.
Like many other fans here, it’s tough for me to swallow Farmer’s picks at the top of the draft the last two years (the West thing is mind blowing), but I think the 7-4 start from last year is enough to give us reason to believe.
“I see a gleam men. I see a gleam.”
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