TRich and RG3

I've sure read some dumb comments recently.  Trent Richardson is a bust?

For most of the season, every team the Browns have played have made stopping this guy a priority.  You attack the combination of a superior running back and a rookie quarterback by overloading the offensive line and sending extra guys.

The running back has to stay there to protect the quarterback if it's a pass--and face it: It was almost always a run anyway, so the extra inside rushers raced him to the handoff and got a hat on him before he could take two steps with the ball.

This is after he recovers from knee surgery and before he tears rib cartilage.

Nor has he healed.  As I said when he was injured, you need to NOT MOVE for several weeks for that injury to heal.  I can't blame Richardson for playing through the pain, but I do blame Shurmer for letting him.

I understand: Shurmer doesn't want to be fired, and Richardson hurt or not is very reliable and expecially good at catching passes.  There are lingering concerns about Hardesty's ball security, and he's not as good a reciever.

But Shurmer has ridden him into the ground.  No rookie running back is ever prepared to touch the ball as many times as TRich has in his first NFL season.  They work out like maniacs, but for whatever reason, no amount of conditioning can give them the neccessary endurance until they've actually played one full season.

So I think that right now TRich is simply tired.  Once he has a chance to heal  and has a full offseason, he'll be scary.

RG3 won't play today.  Apparantly some teams allow their players to heal.

I love RG:  This idiot comes out bashing him for not being black enough, and he asks the guy to define what he means by "one of us".  Why is it so important for these clowns to not simply be americans?  Why is a guy who works hard and earns the american dream a Tom unless he...what...talks about how he was oppressed?  Demands more free stuff?  Talks like an ignorant jailbird?

I can't miss that the guy is black, ok?  I just don't CARE!

Anyway, I like Kurt Cousins too, but not as much.  Because he's white.  Kidding.

Updated W/L prediction: 8-8.