Whew! I just had this nightmare that the Browns signed Jake Delhomme for starting money! Me and my overactive imagination. But I'm awake now, and I know that Mike Holmgren would never do something like that.
Yeah, there's a new sherriff in town, and it's pretty stupid to expect a totally different person to do dumb stuff just because the people he replaced did dumb stuff.
Remember Hargrove? Everything was "eggzzbeerriunzz" with him. he signed this pitcher, McDowell, with an ERA over FIVE, for a fortune, and said "but he gives you innings". He got away with it, because his offense sometimes outpaced all the runs McDowell gave up.
Delhomme said he threw all those interceptions because he was trying too hard not to make mistakes. Wow. Well, he's a quarterback, not an english major. I think it translates to he hesitated to pull the trigger. That's really bad in a West Coast.
But it'll be ok. Maybe they can flip first rounders and include Rogers to pry Kolb loose from the Eagles. Then we can just forget about all this Delhomme nonsense.
Rodney Trusnikfield, one of the several young inside/outside linebackers the Browns are loaded to the gills with, signed his tender, so that's good.
Ben Watson!! That's great! "Underachieving"? Hey--that's New England's offense--ever hear of this guy named Welker? Watson blocked a lot. Great pickup!
Pat Ryan of NFL Radio, who never bothers to do any reasearch on lower-rung teams, said that this fills a huge need. We hugely needed a pass-catching tight end, since we have another ghost on the team; this one named Moore. I'm surprised to learn that all those passes he caught were a mirage.
Anyway, that's too bad, since if Rodney Moorefield did exist, then we could sometimes field two tight ends, even in a 2-2 "big" set--with Watson a sweet blocker as well as reciever. Defenses would find that hard to stop. And then we'd have two pass-catching tight ends, so the base offense could safely feature one--you know, build in the deeper patterns.
The signings so far were smart; Watson was REAL smart. So don't worry about Mike Holmgren signing Delhomme as anything more than a backup. Like he'd ever pay a washed up geezer like that like 6 mil or something!
Just a nightmare. Well, I'll flip over to the Plain Dealer page to see what's really going on....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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