Cleveland Browns Should Start Brady Quinn

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Ultimately, the Cleveland Browns are just wasting their time until they get Brady Quinn into the starting lineup. That was pretty evident today as they lost their season-opener — at home — to arch rival Pittsburgh, 34-7. Yes, it was every bit as ugly as the score indicated. Charlie Frye started the game for Cleveland. He finished 4 of 10 for 34 yards and a pick. Derek Anderson replaced him and went 13 of 28 for 184 yards with a TD and an INT. But their season will be a waste of time until the QB of their future starts taking some snaps.

Now, I must assert that the QB position is not the only problem for the Browns. In the opening remarks of his postgame press conference, head coach Romeo Crennel said:

“For a home opener, we didn’t do very well. We didn’t play very good at all. There’s no explanation that I can give you for it because we felt like that going in we were in a positive mindframe. We thought we had improved as a team and gotten better. And didn’t we go out there and … well, you saw the results ….. We’re not good enough to overcome as deep a hole as we dug for ourselves ….. Turnovers, sacks, drops, touchdown passes we gave up — all of those things make the final score what it is.”

At ClevelandBrowns.com, a fan poll asks “What hurt the Browns most during Sunday’s loss to Pittsburgh?” a.) Sacks and pressure, b.) Turnovers, c.) Penalties, d.) Allowing big plays. My answer was not allowed. All of the above.

A quarterback change is not a fix-all for this team, but if Brady Quinn is the future of your franchise, he’s going to need to get in the game and take his lumps just like Peyton Manning did his rookie season. And you know how that story has played out.