While We’re Waiting… LeBron James’ Stats, Cleveland Clinic Courts, and Quinn’s Progress
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“[LeBron] James is taking nearly three fewer shots, one fewer 3-pointer, per game than last season and shooting at a higher percentage, currently at 51 percent. In turn, he’s currently averaging a career-high 8.4 assists. His turnovers are up, which is a bad thing, but it appears to be a result of him simply passing more. One deduction is he is trusting his teammates more. He’s averaging a career-low 37.3 minutes per game — which isn’t simply explained by sitting out entire fourth quarters, which did often last season. Rather, it is a reflection that coach Mike Brown is able to play him less within the rotation.” [Brian Windhorst]
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Cleveland’s a Plum tours Cleveland Clinic Courts, complete with pictures and a video [Cleveland's a Plum]
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Progress? Kind of? “Before anyone completely writes Quinn off, let’s again remind ourselves that yesterday was only the third-year QB’s 10th NFL start. There’s still something to be said for a young QB’s progress. However, and despite the lack of talent around him, Quinn’s inconsistency is slightly maddening. Call it the Alternate Game Theory, or even a Non-Divisional Affective Disorder, but so far during Quinn’s re-emergence as starter, he seems to follow a bad game – against a divisional opponent – with a much better one against a team outside the AFC North.” [Cleveland Reboot]
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Harness their inner Tim Couch: “Eric Mangini’s job as head coach is on the line. If the Browns do not beat the Steelers on Thursday night in Cleveland Browns Stadium, and if Mangini is fired when the season ends, it would mean two coaches came and went without beating their turnpike rivals. The Browns (1-11) have long been out of any playoff picture. But the Steelers (6-6) need this game, so the Browns can expect Pittsburgh to come in hungry. The Browns have not beaten the Steelers since the first meeting in 2003.” [The OBR]
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And finally, Eleven Warriors hands out their 2009 Awards to the Buckeyes. Offensive player of the year? Not Terrelle Pryor. [Eleven Warriors]
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One other thing we need to keep in mind is that Quinn’s Dreamboat Rating is 158.3.
That’s the highest in the league this year seeing the Sanchez received such a poor rating after eating a hot dog on the side lines
You can’t discount Matt Ryan’s dreaminess though, he even has a razor commercial for his sensitive face.
You know how you become a more consistent QB? You play more. He could have worked out some of these issues, or proven that he cannot work out these issues, by starting the whole season. Thanks Mangini.
Let’s get a right side of O line, and establish a run game, THEN look at QB. That should give the kid time to improve or fail.
Cleveland: where QB’s go to have their career ruined.
I was listening to “The Zone” last night on KNR and the guest hosts said Quinn, “Doesn’t have that wow factor” and that was the entire argument against. People called talking about numbers and other weaknesses that hurt the QB play, but the hosts refused to listen to any argument that didn’t revolve around an undefinable “wow” factor.
nullster-
The hot dog incident was definitely a nicht nicht.
History Cat – While Cleveland does have a distinction for having QB’s careers ruined from the beginning … Chicago is where QB’s go to die
Good article by Windhorst. I would definitely agree that Shaq’s impact may not be measurable right now. He’ll earn every cent in the playoffs against Howard. Man I love those uniforms.
Completly off topic, but I would like to move to have nullster’s avatar picture taken away or atleast changed. It’s 9:33 on a Tuesday morning at work and I am scartching my eyes out looking at that picture and wondering how much I would pay for one bottle of Christmas Ale. Im up to $24.21 and climbing.
As ranking Great Lakes Drinker, I am starting a committee to determine the validity of my avatar picture selection and I am the sole member of the committee. We’ll act on this now.
Can you please keep it down? I’m in session. [thinks] I’ve determined this avatar is valid.
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Permission to join the validity committee!
Clown Baby:
[thinks about it] Permission denied.
Da(rn) it!
To Benihanas!
We don’t have a consensus whether Mangini’s job is on the line yet, do we?
In fact, after Mangini boggled our minds by claiming that he saw improvement in the early season embarrassments, we’re at a point where we CAN actually see improvement.
@Roosevelt: It would almost be impossible not to improve at something when you start out as lousy as the Browns did and spend hundreds of hours trying to get better. At the end of the day, they are 1-11 (or 1-10, I don’t even remember anymore) so any talk of “improvement” is hollow. They’ve got to fire Mangini and get a credible leader in there.
Thank you, historycat. I’ve been advocating giving the kid as many snaps as possible since before training camp (indeed, since Savage failed to capitalize on DA’s RFA status for a #1 & #3.)
About “The Zone” show you mention… I gave up listening to the morons on that station long ago. Try it. You’ll feel better…
“We don’t have a consensus whether Mangini’s job is on the line yet, do we?”
Wish we did. The way I see it, the unfortunate thing is that what Randy “thinks” at any time seems to be the same as the people who are directly influencing him at any given time. Being that Mangini is the one with his ear right now, and considering his past reluctance to make any difficult decisions, I think Mangini will have every opportunity to blow a potential #1 draft pick–not to mention the other 10–and further erode the franchise for another year before Lerner would be willing to make a move. I hope that I’m wrong, but the way I see it, there is nothing at all concrete to indicate Mangini’s going to be leaving anytime soon, and all we have to go on is Randy’s past performance… and based on that there is no reason to believe he’ll fire him this year, other than unsubstantiated (but hopeful) rumors…