B) Stupid throws? Certainly a few of them, especially trying to throw overtop taller corners on the sidelines to hit a 5’10″ WR. On the same note, the playcalling by SHURMUR (not Chilly) is god awful! Shurmur continues to force QBs into the WCO of 1963 rather than doing as Shannahan did & take pressure off with a running game & implement plays suiting RGIII, as if you know the Baylor spread, you saw flashes of it this past weekend. Weeden needs to be in the shotgun early & often.

C) Weedens has 2 huge issues. 1: he doesn’t slide in the pocket, rather he buckles from pressure off the edges. Needs to learn to step up & slide to elude the rush. 2: needs to learn to look off defenders. I watched him stare down receivers on atleast half of his passing attempts.

D) Need the running game to take pressure off. For that to happen, the Guards need to pull their collective heads from their grande asses! The run blocking was awful. Surprisingly, pass protection was solid. Guards & rookie Schwartz all released from their blocks WAY too early trying to hit the second level. Need much more stout play from the Guards & Schwartz moving forward.

Weeden should grow, but Shurmur needs to become more flexible & have the ability to scheme around his teams strengths, not just shove his style onto young guys who don’t understand it. Honestly, Shurmur needs to hand the playcalling over to Childress & concentrate on not throwing the challenge flag for stupidity!

Browns 24-Bengals 20

as far as weedon, its a rough first game but he does have talent to play in the league. he needs to learn pretty fast though

-QG

Maybe he’ll trade for Randy Moss! I’m sure that would turn out well.

Earn the spot and the other guy waits his turn. Sadly, I suspect in-house politics won’t help the Brown’s with that kind of real competitin.

My money would be on Colt. I think he’d spank Weeden.

You’re comment is pretty ignorant. Just because a rookie is 29 years old doesn’t mean he should play like Manning or Brees. The Browns felt Weeden’s age would benefit him in terms of emotional maturity because he has more life experience and played professional baseball for five years. I hope people were easier on you when you shoved a diet cola through the drive-thru window instead of regular during your first week on the job.

That’s right. He’s capable of throwing five or six picks a game.

Reminds me of the cowboy who rode into town. Tied up his horse in front of the saloon.

An old man was sitting in a rocker in front of the saloon, watching the cowboy.

The cowboy finished tying up his ride and then instead of walking into the saloon strolled behind his horse and lifted its tail up high and then kissed his horse right on the butt where the tail met the arse with a big wet smack.

The old man was shocked and stopped rocking. “I ain’t ever seen that a’far,” he said to the cowboy as he started up the three steps to the saloon’s swinging doors. “Never seen a poke kiss his horse’s ass in all my 82 years.”

The cowboy, a laconic sort, looked into the old man’s eyes and explained, “Chapped lips.”

“What, what?” the old man asked. “Kissing yer horse’s ass cures chapped lips?”

The cowboy tilted back his hat and said, “Nope. But I don’t lick ‘em so much.”

Shurmur has it out for Colt because he wasn’t his pick, and will “baby” Weinke 2.0 because he was his.

Either way, the fans lose.

Maybe he’s just not comfortable being an NFL quarterback…But he’s just a young rookie…ok, a middle aged rookie.

Its not all Weeden’s fault it was a team effort

Yeah, except your quarterback is almost 29-years-old! The whole reason they took Weeden was that he was supposedly the most ready to play because of his age. If a 29-year-old is going to play like a rookie, what’s the point? Stupid, stupid draft pick, but that’s not surprising coming from the Browns. It’s almost par for course.