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Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

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Fans want answers, but Romeo is silent
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
BY TODD PORTER
SPORTS SPOTLIGHT

BEREA With nearly 24 hours to digest the mess he helped feed Browns fans Sunday, Romeo Crennel came out Monday with ... answers?

Hardly.

The Browns head coach, whose team looked more like the Bad News Bears than the Chicago Bears in the opener Sunday, gave his loyal fans more questions.

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Morning Journal

Browns trade Frye to Seattle, elevate Anderson to starter with Quinn as No. 2
JEFF SCHUDEL, Morning Journal Writer
09/12/2007




BEREA -- In May of 2006, general manager Phil Savage spoke to a group of Browns Backers at a Pro Football Hall of Fame event in Canton, praising the moxie, leadership and arm strength of Charlie Frye.


Savage told the group that if Frye wasn't all he said the quarterback would be, someone else would be speaking to the group in May of 2008. That's how sure Savage was when he pegged Frye as the starting quarterback in Frye's second year out of the University of Akron. The group caught Savage's fire for Frye and gave him a rousing ovation.


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Cleveland.com

Terry Pluto
Plain Dealer Columnist
Yes, the Browns traded Charlie Frye to Seattle for a sixth-round draft pick on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after he started the home opener.
That's right, Frye is out.
Derek Anderson is in, only a week after he lost the starting job to

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Some very good points in this article. Why couldn't the coaches tell that Charlie could not read defenses very fast? If they would have gotten rid of him during the preseason, Brady could have gotten many more reps and might be "ready" (whatever that means to the coaching staff).
 
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LitlBuck;927335; said:
Cleveland.com

Terry Pluto
Plain Dealer Columnist

Some very good points in this article. Why couldn't the coaches tell that Charlie could not read defenses very fast? If they would have gotten rid of him during the preseason, Brady could have gotten many more reps and might be "ready" (whatever that means to the coaching staff).
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two things:

1. frye was nowhere near that bad in the preseason.
2. rumor is due to #1, Crennel favored frye, whereas Chud and Scherer felt that he shouldn't start.

there was a little too much value put into frye's starting "experience".
 
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So far everything I'm hearing out of ESPN is tearing Crennel for this "debacle."
Crennel isn't the one who traded him after 1 game, that's Savage. And given preseason performances (and that I believe Quinns status isn't being determined by Crennel), I don't see how Frye shouldn't have been his choice for starter last week?
I'm not saying Crennel should have a free pass here... but why does the national media I've seen give the bigger players here a free pass?

(Also gotta say I find it hilarious everytime I hear the Savage clip "This move obviously clarifies our quarterback situation" ... yes... obviously. It clarifies that you guys threw this season in the trash before it started and are deadset on giving Dallas a top-3 pick, if not #1 overall.)
 
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