Last night's MNF game lived up to expectations. It was boring, meaningless and sad to watch a professional sports team play that bad. Cleveland started Brady Quinn at quarterback and he was predictably bad. Quinn was 13-31 for 99 yards with 2 picks and a one touchdown... to Dawan Landry of the Ravens. Obviously the Browns need to draft a quarterback next year because Quinn can't throw farther than 10 yards and he's better than Derek Anderson.
Once upon a time I used to be a Browns fan. But it all ended when they drafted Quinn in the first round. I made it through the move to Baltimore, the Tim Couch era and too many coaches to count, but when then drafted Quinn I was done. Look, I'm not a football genius or an NFL general manager, but I watched Notre Dame play LSU Quinn's senior year in college and realized at that point he'd never make a good NFL quarterback. The reason I denounced my Browns fan-ship wasn't because I hate Quinn, it was because the Browns organization has no sense for evaluating talent.
You could argue the only way the Browns can truly turn things around is to force Randy Lerner to sell the team. Then they need to move to Los Angeles, change the team name, hire Trent Dilfer as GM and Jon Gruden as head coach. Anyone who's been part of a losing organization or team knows the only way things get turned around is when they clean house and start over.
We're pretty sure that will be the last prime-time, national television opportunity Cleveland will get for a long, long time. We hope Roger Goodell wasn't watching tonight because he might contract the league to 31 teams after that performance by Cleveland.
As if the Browns performance on the field wasn't bad enough Cleveland fans couldn't even pull off a real protest. Oh, and their best player, Joshua Cribbs, was carted off the field on a stretcher. It was all summarized by ESPN analyst Steve Young after the game, "There just aren't words to describe the disaster that is the Cleveland Browns."
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