1: Vontez Burfict has taken a firm grasp on the dirtiest player in the NFL title. Congratlations, Vontez. You gaping rectum.
2: Nice to see Julio Jones being "covered" like Terrelle Pryor! It's shocking the referees didn't make the call, since Julio isn't a Cleveland Brown, however. What were the lines on that game?
3: Big Ben now out 4-6 weeks! If he's not there when the Steelers play the Browns, the homies got a shot.
Oh shut up. Brady Quinn agrees. While mentally beating up on his NFL Radio partner, Murray, like he does all day every day, he said "they're going to win some games. Don't sleep on Kessler!"
Murray predictably spluttered and snorted derisively, and Quinn said "they might even win this one. I'm thinking about picking them."
"I want to see if you have the guts to actually pick them.", Murray predictably retorts.
Well, picking the Browns over the Bengals is a tall order, and I'm not holding my breath on Brady's decision. But the derisive smirks and snorts are really, really ignorant.
They've been close to winning four of their six games. And yes, they need to close better, but the referees irrefutably engineered three of those losses. Yes they did. Those games were stolen from them. Yes they were. It happened. Yes it did.
Kessler has started three of those games. Vs the Patriots, he had them in the game when he was injured. I doubt that the Browns could have won, but he had nothing to do with the loss.
He has engineered second-half comebacks in two games, under real pressure. The Browns came up short, just barely.
His overall rating is 93.8. His FIRST start was 81.6, and he was over 126 vs the New England Patriots. His yards per completion went from 5.6 to 7.8 to 8.2. Can you find me another quarterback who gets sacked six times and manages to rate over 105?
Meanwhile, Carson Wentz has come back down to earth. That's no knock on him, and it will probably happen to Kessler, too, as defenses get a bead on him and figure out how to cramp his unique style. The point here is, these two quarterbacks belong in the same conversation, and if you're snickering and snorting about that, you're not thinking for yourself.
Yes, wins and losses are the critical stat. But guys like Murray ignore everything else utterly. Despite the musical offensive linemen and the running game entering the Bermuda triangle two weeks ago and the swiss cheese defense, this very young team is improving overall, each snd every week.
For the moment, it is Terrelle Pryor and Cody Kessler who are taking up ALL the slack. But Barnidge can get back on track at any time, Ricardo Lewis has made strides...
They're that close, already, that one more play, by just one player, means a win. The analytics guys will tell you that--this is the literal, measurable truth. Why are you snickering and rolling your eyes?
Brady Quinn isn't the laid back pretty California dude a lot of us thought he was. He's actually like a cross between Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms, and has joined MJD and Ross Tucker as one of my top sources, partly because when Murray says something dumb or ignorant, he says it's dumb or ignorant, and then tells him why.
He calls it like he sees it, and doesn't care when he's outnumbered. Brett Favre said of Vontez Burfict "I just can't believe that in today's NFL, a player would actually try to deliberately injure another player." I think Brett is preparing to run for office. Brady Quinn said "That was obviously deliberate and he needs to be suspended for at least four games", and he got my vote.
Yeah, I can see how he got in a fistfight with motormouth defensive lineman Sean Smith in the locker room. Bet he beat his ass, too.
But I digress: While everybody else is (yawn) admitting that Cody Kessler doesn't exactly suck, Quinn is telling us he is intelligent, accurate, nervy, and surprisingly good, and just might be the answer.
Like me, he points out: The Browns defense has played poorly, but the Browns offense has NOT.
Brady had to pick the Bengals, but said he might pick it the other way when they come to Cleveland. Yeah, we're just in time for Tyler Eiffert to come back. That's almost as wonderful as welcoming Tom Brady back.
Joe Theisman said that when a quarterback doesn't have a strong receiving threat from a tight end, it makes things a lot harder. The tight end threatens the middle of the field. Absent that big, vertical guy inside, defenses can take away the wide receivers, or at least the deeper routes.
This is part of Aaron Rodgers' problem, and that goes for Dalton, as well.
Conversely, I think Cody Kessler should start using Gary Barnidge more here, pretty soon. That would open the rest of the offense up.
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