Well, once again, your Browns have screwed up royal by blaming their inferior offense on a Super Bowl quarterback in Joe Flacco, when the real problem is that the team is about six players short of NFL caliber on offense. In all, the Browns have invested 10 draft picks, including 3 Round 1 picks, and they have only Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders to show for it. This has been the most horrible over-investment in quarterbacks in NFL history.
The current quarterback of the present, Dillon Gabriel, is far more advanced than the more talented Shedeur Sanders, but everyone else in the NFL--as far as we know--graded him in the sixth round. Namely, Gabriel is too slow and too short to evade the pass rush. His passes are going to get knocked down and he is going to get sacked. Versus Pittsburgh, he got sacked 6 times, with 16 quarterback hits and 8 pass deflections.
It was a mistake to start Gabriel if the Browns were not serious about committing to him as their starter. A new quarterback normally deserves at least a year to prove that he belongs.
As it is, Gabriel is an embarrassment. This stuff--play design, play calling, structuring the team, all of it-- just does not work.
On the other hand, it is hard to justify starting Sanders, especially while he seems more interested in his stats than doing everything he can to help his team win. You see this often at the college level, when a quarterback will willingly take a sack rather than throw an incompletion. Dan Orlovsky of ESPN articulated this concern about Shedeur, and there may be some truth to this.
Is there a way to start Shedeur without feeding any potential sense of entitlement? Well, how about hiring a disciplinarian like Bruce Aryans, a guy with exceptionally high credibility, who also happened to have been Tom Brady's boss when their team won the Super Bowl. Bruce was also a former Browns Offensive Coordinator.
Bruce might not be interested for a five-year gig with the Browns, but an interim job might be just the thing for him at age 73. Heck, let's see if we can get Offensive Line Coach Bill Callahan (69) back. There's another guy with Super Bowl experience and a great track record of success.
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