Um...Go Brown's!?!

So I realize that there is much more about the National Football league that I don’t understand, than I do. There are aspects about the NFL that I don’t even know how much I don’t know; talent evaluation, leading, media, play calling, scheming, managing, coaching, drafting, motivating, contracting, fitness, and the list goes on…

However, I also know that there is a lot I don’t know about…Um space. But there are some things you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand. Like the sun makes the planet warm. Sure it would be nice to understand the difference between fusion and fission, and what the spots and flares actually are, but you have no problems intuitively understanding that the sun produces heat that warms the planet detrimental to life’s continuation.

Similarly, I know without a doubt that it takes a good, even great, quarterback for sustained success in this league. It takes that player with something special, and they don’t come along often. Some time you have to find a diamond in the rough (Tom Brady), and sometimes it just takes time (Aaron Rogers). So could someone please tell me what I don’t get about the National Football League? I mean it, someone please respond and tell me how wrong I am. How is it that I can’t look back for a single season without seeing an NFL owners, General Managers or Coaches making some RIDICULOUS quarterback decisions!!! Like, I don’t know, say Denver trading that Jay Cutler loser??? Or how about Oakland’s genius idea to draft that 60 million dollar dude from LSU that is lazy, fat and pretty stupid.

I know that is a little harsh, but im not taking about questionable decision like the Drew Brees to New Orleans trade in 2006. There were good arguments on both sides, and we are not all going to agree on everything. I am taking about STUPID decisions. What am I not getting here?...I was hoping for a moment this might be the year to shut me up. I was wrong thanks to the Browns!

How do you let a second year first round pick (that you traded up to get) go?... And for almost nothing!

First off, Brady Quinn never got a chance to prove himself. If you weren’t going to give him a change, why did you draft him?

Second, apparently no one in Cleveland remembers the first couple seasons of a guy names Brees and a dude name Manning.

Third, Quinn is one of the most fundamentally sound quarterbacks I have ever seen in a draft class, GIVE IT SOME TIME!

Fourth, I am not sure the offspring of Joe Montana and Tom Brady could do anything on a team that bad.

And lastly, why give him up for nothing? It’s not like he was making that much money? I mean, don’t get me wrong, there are too many good Cleveland Brown’s quarterbacks to count right now…WAIT, NO THERE ISNT.

Guess there is just something I don’t understand here.

By: Matthew Walden