Besides, it’ll be four more years before McCoy is as old as Weeden is now. A lot can happen in four years. In the NFL, a lot can happen in one Sunday. I’d keep the QB who knows the offense best as the backup. Then let Weeden start. If Weeden goes down, the Browns have McCoy. If Weeden’s no good, the Browns fans will call for the backup regardless of whether its McCoy, Wallace, or someone else.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your Cleveland Browns!!

Someone that doesn’t react to pressure is not what you want anyway. Someone that can’t handle a threat to their job or W is the polar opposite of a QB.

How about in San Diego where Brees needed that threat in order to hit his potential or maybe we’re both basing this on a ridiculously small sample size, of which can’t be used to base the decision of McCoy on.

Staff needs to work both of them and see who responds to the pressure. My guess is Weeden will at the expense of MCoy which is what most seem to believe. If the staff thinks it’s best to keep McCoy for Weeden’s sake then do it. If keeping him will hurt Weeden then Weeden wasn’t the right choice.

And the double standard regarding QBs in the NFL is just crazy. Plenty of colleges have QBs split time with no harm being done, but that’s unthinkable in the pros. They’re so scared of hurting the starter’s psyche they’ll risk his health playing him to the last snap of blowouts rather than put the backup in. Now, even third-round picks who have struggled absolutely MUST be traded away for fear the new guy’s development will be stunted? Funny how guys at every other position have to just suck it and earn their playing time.

McCoy never had a chance b/c he doesn’t have the skill set to be a starting NFL QB and teams knew this in 2010 which is why he dropped to the end of the 3rd round (and probably would’ve dropped further if not for his name) just like they know it now which is why no one will offer diddly-poo for the guy.

It’s not like any of those other QB’s that sucked in Cleveland went elsewhere and had any success whatsoever. Colt’s just another of a long line of personnel errors at the QB position.

A professional should expect, assume, and welcome competition! Keeping McCoy shouldn’t prevent Weeden from developing into the long-term answer at the position, it should be one of the reasons he DOES.

And your analogy makes the opposite point you are trying to make. You are basically saying Anderson played BETTER when he had someone breathing down his neck that could take his job. And that’s the way it should be.

For God’s sake, the year the Cowboys drafted Troy Aikman, they drafted another QB (Steve Walsh) in the FIRST ROUND of the supplemental draft! Somehow, Aikman survived this terrible burden.

If a QB is going to be great, he’s going to be great. If he’s not, he’s not. Period.

This one isn’t even close…a 2012 $3.066 million cap number for Wallace vs. $677K for McCoy. Wallace’s contract is so over-market that he should be released on principle alone.

Also consider that Weeden’s success in the NFL is not a guarantee. He hasn’t played one down of football yet. There are some major questions about his play at the college level, so to think he is absolutely going to be the Brown’s long-term answer at QB is a stretch. Let’s see it plays out, but keeping McCoy makes financial sense.

He’s a boy!!!

He’s underdeveloped and not demonstrative enough to lead a football team.

Mike Holmgren, Pat Shurmur let the big boys play!