Just eleven days after gaining a big second-half lead then losing at home to the Denver Broncos, the Cleveland Browns and their new starting quarterback, Brady Quinn, will take the field in Buffalo tonight to play a Bills team that looked a month ago like it might actually fulfill the promise it had shown over the past two seasons and win the Tom Brady-less AFC East. This will be Quinns’ second start and FanYard has a prediction on this game, based on the aggregated picks of the fans in our community. First, though, I digress…
Crennel has a HUGE head, but very small shoes...should anyone try to fill them.
Just like the Browns gave up that big lead last Thursday, the Bills have stumbled in losing all three divisional games they have played this season, and now both teams have what amounts to very little hope to make the postseason this year. In fact, Browns players Jamal Lewis and Josh Cribbs literally said some of their teammates gave up late in that Broncos loss, something head coach Romeo Crennel denies.
Anyone with a head on their shoulders, however, and any knowledge of football, must know that Crennel is merely staving off the inevitable pink slip he must be handed sometime before next year’s draft if the Browns are to have any chance at becoming a better team by next season.
Crennel has been nothing like the head coach the Cleveland franchise thought they were getting when they hired the former Patriots assistant coach away from New England. His 23-34 record in that time shines brighter than it should due to a 10-6 mirage that came with an over-achieving Derek Anderson quarterback year combined with an easy schedule last season.
The benching of Anderson during this more realistic schedule in 2008 only underlines the bad decision-making that has marked Crennel’s tenure in Cleveland. Crennel was instrumental in getting Anderson and the Browns to agree to a fat, multi-year contract in the offseason that many pundits questioned based on the tangible evidence that pointed to the likelihood of last season being an anomaly for the oft-erratic QB, which it was.
"Don't worry, D.A., I've got you covered," Quinn says, as he stretches for the ladies.
With Crennel saying there is no locker room friction and that he and his team has no quitters, I must believe the opposite. After all, that’s the way things go with most things that have come out of the coach’s mouth over the past three seasons. Sometimes good assistant coaches don’t make good head coaches, call it Norv Turnerism, and Crennel fits that mold.
I’m taking the Bills by ten at home against a non-AFC East foe. At FanYard, the Yardstick calls for a seven-point Bills victory. And that’s with about 15 minutes until kickoff.
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