In 1992 the Seattle Seahawks were horrible. They went 2-14 behind a trio of starting quarterbacks (Stan Gelbaugh, Kelly Stouffer and Dan McGwire), and they never scored more than 17 points in any game.
At the end of the season the Seahawks had scored a grand total of 140 points, a mark of futility that had never been matched in a 16-game season before and hasn’t been matched since.
But that mark could be matched this year.
Adam Schefter of ESPN points out that both the Cleveland Browns and the Oakland Raiders have a shot at the record this season. Nine games into 2009, the Browns have scored 78 points, putting them on pace to finish with 139 and break the 1992 Seahawks’ record.
And if the Browns don’t break the Seahawks’ record, the Raiders might: Having scored 88 points this season, Oakland is on pace to finish with 156. If Bruce Gradkowski manages the superhuman feat of being a worse quarterback than JaMarcus Russell, maybe the Raiders can come in under 140 as well.
It’s telling that when the Raiders drafted Russell and the Browns drafted Brady Quinn in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft, both teams thought they had franchise quarterbacks who would take their offenses to new heights. Instead Russell and Quinn — helped by a whole lot of lousy teammates — have taken the Raiders’ and Browns’ offenses to new depths.
There was a giant red flag when Russel came to combine looking like an earlier version of Andre Smith….
The Pitt Panthers could beat these teams. They are terrible. Enough said. Keep sucking Cleveland.
This would be the 1st NFL record for the Raiders in years! HaHaHa…
Raiders are getting what they deserve with all the bone head draft picks, bizzare drama, and Sith Lord Davis……..At least the Browns realize they are bad and have to make changes.
Wow, it’s nice that they’re talking about somebody other than the Redskins for this honor!
I remember that Phil Savage really loved Russell heading into that draft. He had seen him at his youth camps since he was like 12 years old and all the talk was of the Browns taking him if he was there. Guess Phil didn’t have an eye for a quarterback. Coming from B-more that makes sense as they couldn’t draft a good one until after Phil left.
Oh god 1992 was painful.
One is a fat black guy, one is a more retarded version of Keneau Reeves
They play each other, one of them will accidentally score 17 points.
With the Browns on their way into the Record Book, it makes me proud to be a Browns fan!
Watching the MNF game, Quinn was getting hit before he could even finish a three step drop. I don’t think Peyton Manning or Tom Brady could do anything on that P.O.S. team.
Russell, he’s just fat and lazy. Wing the ball and let the wideouts sort it out only work if you have Randy Moss and Chris Carter. Gradkowski is horrible. The Raiders will put in Frye before the season is out, unless they crawl back to donut to beg for more 40.0 rated games.
I sat through the “gradkowski era” here in Tampa and believe me he has the gumption to be worse than J Russell.
The Browns put up 6 points against a terrible Bears defense. It is, without a doubt, one of the worst offenses I have seen in over 40 years. It almost looked like Derek Anderson was trying to throw the ball into the ground.
The Sad Truth..
Both of these QB’s would have success under a different Regime. If Quinn Sate for a year behind the Gunslinger Favre, and a quality program with the Vikings…He could be their QB of the Future……I would say blame the Organizations all the way…..
SKOL
The skins put up 27 points on a playoff team last weekend. HIP HIP HOORAY!
this is a record that was made to fall in the year of twitter…
Here’s a stat i read the other day…..In the last 4 games, Tennessee’s Chris Johnson has 796 yards of offense, and the Cleveland Browns entire offensive squad has 658. I say Cleveland will smash this record……
Quinn is still salvagable. How much help do they give him? Trade away the No. 1 tight end and wide receiver. Let him work mainly with rookie receivers. Don’t give him a decent running game. The Oline is medicore at How can he be sucessful under those circumstances?
Tom Brady or Peyton Manning mighr be able to make this team better- no one else.
So you’re saying….We got a shot?!
WashingtonRedOookies,
Sorry to break it to you, but playoffs don’t start for a while now.
And no, the Bronocos (nor the Redskins) will not be a part of them.
This is one competition the Raiders will win.
Gradkowski’s stats are below Jamar-sucks, so the battle for futility will go to the Raiders. Grad will choke this weekend and the fans will be chanting for, “We want Frye.”
Every poor stat and record that goes with it will drive Davis to seek help or retire. So I say, Commitment to Futility is the new slogan if it gets Davis out of Oakland.
Oh yeah, not going to happen! Davis will go down with the ship. The NFL will have to pry the team from his cold dead fingers for the Raiders to field a competitive team with real NFL talent and a legitimate coach.
It’s the Circle of Life thing with the Raiders. They started as a joke, Davis built them up. Now its Davis tearing them down and they suck. Again.
Hakuna Matata Oakland Raiders.
They’ll be lucky if they beat Cleveland this year.
I think Raiders messed up in drafting Russell over Brady. I believe Russell is a very bad QB and will be on any team. I believe Brady is a decent QB with potential but is being dragged down by a very bad team.
Had the Raiders taken Brady instead of Russell they would not be a SB team (won’t be as long as crazy Al is around) but they would be much better off than they are now- maybe even good enough to put up a fight in a weak AFC West.
Hey, don’t give up on the Rams yet. If Stephen Jackson matches his total TDs from the first half of the season in the second half, then he’ll have four. With the worst WRs in the league, the Rams are just one Bulger knee injury away from maybe not scoring ever again.
The astounding thing about that 1992 Seahawks team was that despite having the worst scoring offense in NFL history and a 2-14 record, Cortez Kennedy was selected as the NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
As bad as it might be for the Browns right now offensively, their defense isn’t much better.
So are there any Matt Shaubs out there? The decent back up QB who wont get a chance behind the starter?
Kolb maybe? Lienhardt(sp?) if Warner stays another year?
Oak, Cle, TB, Tenn, Car, Wash, Buff… Others?
Are there enough options in the draft or good back ups for all these suffering teams to find someone to even try.
When the Browns and Raiders play in december, you could be looking at a (gulp) Frye v.s. Ratliff situation, and quite possibly the only game the NFL ever decides with the coin flip. Who the hell wants their commercials to air during this game? My prediction: Browns call heads, the coin lands tails up, and we all get on with our sunday.
First off, I don’t think the problems are mainly with the QB’s.
The Browns are going to be playing some of the other lousy teams in the league, so they might actually score some points. They have Oakland, Detroit, and KC left.
140 points?? Wow. That’s a whopping 8.75 points per game. I can’t wait to see this happen. I’ll be rooting for it all… excuse me, I just threw up a little
hotchick…
Seriously? You spelled Kolb right, and then went right to Matt “Leinhardt”?
You literally had me staring at the name for a good five minutes trying to figure out who had a backup QB who sounds like a mustachioed Dutchman.
Hey, what happens if the Clowns & Lions wind up in a tie?
Of course there is no possibility that either team wins another game (even against Oakland). Who gets the first pick in the draft?
Can you see the coin flip on draft day? It would be dropped and roll into a vent, drain or some other hole in the floor.
Why not start QB Craplift? He can’t do much worse than Craphead 1 or 2.
It amazes me that anyone actually thought Russell or Quinn were good prospects to begin with. Neither impressed me. Russell was all arm, and Quinn was as jittery as a first time offender showering with his cellmates.
In Mangini’s defense, sometimes you need to take 147 steps backwards before you take a step forward.