Coach Rob Chudzinski confirmed Brandon Weeden will start Week 7. Weeden is now 0-3 as a starter, but the Browns aren't going to turn to Jason Campbell. "Brandon played well in spurts," Chud said Monday of his quarterback's Week 6 performance. Weeden went 26-of-43 for 292 yards with two touchdowns and two picks against the Lions. Touch matchups at Green Bay and at Kansas City over the next two weeks are scary for a quarterback uncomfortable in muddied pockets.
Over 24 hrs since Weeden crapped the bed and not even the staunchest believer has posted. Come on guys . . . tell me how everything is going to be okay. *SORRY*
Im sure that cheered you up Lym. The way I see it is we lost as a team this week, much like we won as a team the week before. Weeds is not going to be able to take the team on his back and carry then to victories. If we are going to win games, and I still think we are, then it's going to have to be with all aspects contributing. Weeds will not be the reason we win, and will likely be the reason we lose some games. Not pretty, but true. My biggest concern is the way the team seems to follow his lead..... in a negative way. What I mean is the team seems to play defeated if Weeds is playing poorly. That is a BIG problem, cause I think we can expect Weeds to play poorly, but if the team uses that as an excuse.........
Boy, that's concerning. Rob Chudzinski obviously does not get it. He'd better hope that Norv Turner and Ray Horton elect to stick around for a few more seasons and continue to make him look good... otherwise he'll be run out of town with pitchforks just like that bum of a QB he's continuing to coddle.
Poor Personnel Management Jason Campbell's career winning percentage is 0.443. Brandon Weeden's is 0.273. ***That 0.273 is worse than Colt McCoy, Jake Delhomme, Derek Anderson, and Charlie Frye.*** More Proof 'Dud-zinski' Has no Clue Losing the Team Going to be a tough 10-game stretch to wind down this season.
If I were the DC of a Browns' opponent . . . I would tell my players, "DO NOT attempt to harm, injure or, in any way, knock Brandon Weeden out of the game! Whoever is behind him on their depth chart is a better QB." :-X
Call them the second-quarter Browns Fiddled around with some numbers for the Browns after six games and discovered some very interesting revelations. In their three victories this season, they have outscored the opposition, 85-57. Broken down, it?s 48-30 in the first half, 37-27 in the second half. But it?s in their three losses that the numbers reveal a significant weakness. It?s called the second half. In the first 30 minutes of their three losses, the Browns have outscored opponents, 30-13. In the final 30 minutes, they have been outscored, 55-3. That is not a misprint or a typo. Those are correct and alarming figures. Since Billy Cundiff?s 39-yard field goal late in the third quarter of the season-opening loss to Miami, the Browns have not put a second-half point on the board in a loss. Here are a few more revealing stats. Breaking it down by quarters, the Browns have been outscored in every quarter except the second. Opposing teams have outpointed them, 27-17, in the first quarter; 45-13 in the third quarter; and 37-27 in the final quarter. In the second quarter, though, the Browns hold an astounding 61-16 edge in scoring through six games. That?s slightly more than half of their season total of 118. Simple addition also reveals the Browns have been outscored, 82-40, in the second half overall. It?s abundantly clear the coaching staff either does not make the correct adjustments at halftime or doesn?t feel the need to make changes. Maybe it?s the second-quarter blitz that makes them sanguine. The if-it-ain?t-broke-don?t-fix-it syndrome does not work in professional football. Other teams make adjustments no matter the score. The good teams always mix it up in the second half of games, figuring the opposition has figured out a way to stop them. If the Browns are doing that, they?re going about it the wrong way. A simple explanation, statistically speaking, for the up-and-down season shows the Browns play only one good quarter out of four and lose games when they don?t score in the second half. Scoring anything in the second half portends a victory. There?s something very wrong with this picture. And there is only one person to blame. That would be the head coach. It is his responsibility to make certain his men are emotionally ready to play a game of football from the opening whistle to the final whistle. They do it only 16 times a season. Based on their performances thus far, it takes a full quarter before the Browns kick it in gear. The assistant coaches get the players ready to play on Sundays, but it?s the head coach who sets the emotional tone. Some teams have players who handle that job. A good coach will let them go. Ray Lewis was a perfect example of that in Baltimore before he retired. What makes the 3-3 record worse to swallow is the fact the Browns have led at halftime in every game. How hard is it to keep that emotion at a high level at the beginning of the second half? With any kind of effort in the second halves of games, the Browns very well could be 4-2, maybe 5-1. These numbers do not lie. And lacking a Browns petition to the National Football League to bypass the second halves altogether, they will continue to speak the truth. Loudly. Posted by Rich Passan
That earlier quote of Chudzinski in my post are his actual words. The coaches of this team do not feel the need to make second-half adjustments. Simply inexcusable for an NFL coaching staff.
Yea that's pretty alarming. Sticking with Weeden is not as alarming as that. Especially since were looking for a QB next season and Weeden should give us the best chance for the best draft spot. Not making adjustments is just mind boggling to say. Because the other team is surely making adjustments.
That statement is mind boggling. Adjustments are an ongoing part of the game. I'm not expecting a completely new game plan, but to make adjustments to depth of routes, timing, react to what is working, not working, the opponent's formations, back shoulder or over the top, etc..... That's just required by the staff, the players, everyone. It really concerns me if they don't see adjusting as "business as usual" continually. Don't they always talk about correcting things after games? Why doesn't that apply during play? I gotta believe he simply didn't fully communicate what he meant. Either that or he is, like so many before him, feeling like he has time. Time to make it work, time to lose and not fear for his job. Win now, act now, adjust now, now, now, now! That is what separates winners from losers. Those who act now, not after we review the tapes. That sounds Weeden like: I did some good things, but I'll look at the tape and work on areas I need to be better. How about next play, how about next drive, how about right now? You may not have gotten the memo, but there are 10 games left, and you are but 1 game out. NOW would be a good time to act. This is a mindset, and urgency seems to be lacking.
The Morning Kickoff ? Bad to the bone: For a franchise whose most rabid fans ? including its head coach -- still chomp on dog bones to profess their allegiance, boneheadedness, sadly, comes with the territory. It particularly seems ingrained in the DNA of the expansion era Browns. So Brandon Weeden was totally on point when he termed his back-hand, wrist-flick interception late in the 31-17 loss to Detroit a ?bonehead? play. I?m sure the Bone Lady would agree. ?I was trying to flip it over (running back Chris Ogbonnaya?s) head,? Weeden explained after the game. ?I couldn?t really turn to actually throw it. I didn?t want to take a sack there. Just tried to flip it as far as I could over Obie?s head. It?s almost better to take the sack there and move onto the next play.? The interception, coming with 4:36 to play and the Browns behind by 24-17, sent everyone home in FirstEnergy Stadium in a mood to kick their dog. On a slow news day in the NFL, the Internet quickly was agog about the play. NFL.com opined that the play would ?live in infamy.? The Big Lead dubbed it ?the dumbest interception of the season.? USAToday.com termed it ?one of the worst interceptions you?ll see.? Other Websites described it as ?horrendous? or ?horrific.? In a hyperbole befitting its youthfulness, Yahoo.com stated, ?It just might be the worst pass in NFL history.? (Note to Yahoo.com: Google Garo Yepremian.) In truth, it wasn?t even the most boneheaded play in Browns expansion history. The roll call: For the purposes of this discussion, we include coaching decisions to rank the five worst boneheaded plays of the Browns? expansion era. Braylon Edwards? barefoot romp with Donte Stallworth in between training camp practice periods in 2008, resulting in a heel contusion injury, didn?t qualify. Neither did the Browns? collective decision to let Colt McCoy return to the field one play after Steelers linebacker James Harrison helmet-smashed him into LaLa Land in a 2011 game. Nor did draft-day debacles such as the selection of Hawaii defensive end David Veikune in the second round in 2009, or the trade with Baltimore in 2006 that hand-delivered Haloti Ngata to Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome. Presenting our five worst boneheaded plays of the expansion era: 5. The fullback option pass, 2006. Maurice Carthon, author. Carthon, a former fullback under Bill Parcells, always resented that he was pigeon-holed as a lead blocker or short-yardage ball-carrier as a player. That deep-seeded resentment, coupled with criticism for being unimaginative as an offensive coordinator and play-caller, may account for the bizarre play-call at a critical time in a 2006 game against the Carolina Panthers. Trailing, 17-3, the Browns faced third-and-inches at the Carolina 20-yard line. The Browns lined up in a jumbo run formation that featured lead-blocker Terrelle Smith at fullback and rookie fullback Lawrence Vickers in the halfback position. But instead of smash-mouthing the ball forward, Carthon called a hokey option pass. Vickers, who professed to play some quarterback at a Houston high school, heaved the ball hopelessly for Kellen Winslow 2 in the end zone. Winslow, held up at the line of scrimmage, never got close to the ball. A Browns holding penalty added to the circus. ?It was the coaches call. We try to execute it,? said quarterback Charlie Frye. 4. The handoff to the No. 3 tight end, 2011. Pat Shurmur, author. Setting up a winning field-goal attempt, Shurmur called for safe handoffs inside the 20-yard line with the St. Louis Rams ahead, 13-12. Unbeknownst to Shurmur, fullback Owen Marecic trotted off the field with an injury. Third-string tight end Alex Smith trotted in to take his place. On second-and-goal from the Rams? 9, Shurmur called for a handoff to the fullback, er, Smith. Smith later said he?d never received a handoff before. He didn?t secure the ball and Josh Cribbs fell on it at the 7. A subsequent field goal try went awry when money-in-the-bank long snapper Ryan Pontbriand caromed his snap off left guard Alex Mack?s foot and Phil Dawson?s kick hooked to the left. Asked why he called for a handoff to Smith, Shurmur fumed, ?Come on now, we tried to hand him the football and he dropped it. That was the thinking.? 3. Motorcycle wheelie practice, 2005. Kellen Winslow, author. On May 1, 2005, Winslow practiced motorcycle stunts in a private parking lot in Westlake when he hit a curb at 35 mph and was thrown over the handlebars. All the ligaments in Winslow?s right knee were torn and his kneecap was dislocated. He developed a staph infection in the knee and his career never approached what it could have been. 2. The dippsy-do, back-hand flip interception, 2013. Brandon Weeden, author. That it occurred on first down ? and not on a fourth-down attempt at a miracle play ? made it all the more boneheaded. 1. The Helmet Play, 2002. Dwayne Rudd, author. Thinking a sack of Trent Green on the final play had secured a 39-37 Browns win over Kansas City, Rudd yanked off his helmet and tossed it to the ground with both hands. Unfortunately, Green wasn?t quite down. The quarterback managed to lateral the ball to tackle John Tait. The 325-pound tackle lumbered 28 yards before he was tackled at the Browns? 25. After the penalty assessed on Rudd for taking off his helmet, the Chiefs were given an untimed field goal try. Naturally, they made it and the Browns lost, 40-39. ?A lot of times, football games aren?t necessarily won. Sometimes they?re lost ? by dumb, bad plays,? said coach Butch Davis. Truer words were never spoken by a Browns coach.
All that leads to this: That is exactly what it is ken...SAS makes it out that he stated they have a game plan and will not go away from that. What was actually said is: ?There?s really not a lot of adjustments. You do things as the game goes on so some of that?s overrated in terms of what you?re doing there. You put a plan together and then you talk to the guys about going forward what you need to do. We?re looking hard at that with what we?re going to do at halftime and if there is some things procedurally that we may change. Again, the guys are coming out, the energy is good; their focus is good. They know what they need to get done. It?s a matter of just executing.? Which to me says, those adjustments are made all game long. The 14 minutes they get at half time is not spent re-writing the game plan, rather getting the players/coaches ready to come out and play football. I never played college ball, but I can still remember High School half time and honestly, by the time you relieve yourself and get food and drink, the coach had about enough time to give you the second half pep talk. We would go over a couple of mistakes that occurred so that we didn't repeat them. But there is no way you are going to implement a new game plan on either a player or coaching level in those 14 minutes of the half. I know SAS thinks he had an epiphany into the mindset of Chud with this one sentence from a press conference, but I personally think he is blowing it up to get a rise out of all of you. I don't read into this in any way, other than those adjustments are constant, not a block of 14 minutes in between the second and third quarter. I would be MUCH MUCH more worried about the decision to stay with Weeden, than this silly interpretation of this sentence. Alas, it isn't Chud's job to get a replacement now is it? Is there a replacement to be had? After all, Lombardi wants to replace Weeden with his guy so bad, he went out and signed Brian Hoyer...pretty good move in hindsight, may just be there isn't another Hoyer out there to be had. He certainly doesn't want to replace Weeden with a dud and have that come back on him. He already found "his guy" and "his guy" excelled. No reason at this point for him to panic, he has the draft to get ready for.
