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Cleveland Browns (2008 Season)

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No miracle finish for Browns, Quinn
QB has solid first start but falls short
Friday, November 7, 2008
By STEVE DOERSCHUK
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CLEVELAND It's not quite right to say Brady Quinn could do no wrong.

But with 12 minutes left in the third quarter and Quinn's passer rating at 131.1 and climbing, and a happy crowd chanting "Bra-dy, Bra-dy" on a lovely November evening, there was a certain sense that the Cleveland Browns were onto something.

Perfect? No. It was priceless for a while. Later ... pulsating. Finally ... that old familiar pain.

Quinn led a late go-ahead touchdown drive, but Jay Cutler drove the Broncos 80 yards to a touchdown with 1:14 left for a 34-30 Denver win.

Six-foot-4 wideout Brandon Marshall caught an 11-yard TD pass after 5-10 cornerback Brandon McDonald, at the end of a fitful night, fell down.

Hope was extinguished when Kellen Winslow Jr. let a would-be first down pass go through his hands on fourth down near midfield. Winslow had a great first half and a second half from hell, committing a crucial penalty, losing a fumble, and finally missing that last pass.

The Browns fell to 3-6, inching the Romeo Crennel era back toward the critical list. Denver improved to 5-4.

Quinn steered the Browns to points on five of their first six series.
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Browns-Denver: Parseghian says Quinn will be good quarterback
Friday, November 7, 2008
By STEVE DOERSCHUK
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CLEVELAND A writer who was a school kid during Ara Parseghian's Notre Dame heyday asked the 85-year-old ex-coach for a little advice.

Would it be fair to open a sentence with: "Parseghian, arguably the greatest Fighting Irish coach ..."

Parseghian, still an engaging conversationalist after all these years, laughed out loud.

"N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!"

Parseghian said it would be much fairer to predict Brady Quinn will be a great NFL quarterback.

"He's a terrific football player, and he's a terrific kid," said Parseghian, in town with a group of men who played for a Browns team that went 14-0 60 years ago. "He's an outstanding young man.

"I've watched him. I've talked to him. I have a lot of respect for him.

"I don't know whether it will happen tonight, but over a period of time, Brady's going to demonstrate he can be a good NFL quarterback."

Parseghian talked about 30 minutes before Quinn went three-and-out on the first series of his first NFL start. Quinn's last start came in January 2007, in a Notre Dame bowl game coached by Charlie Weis.

"When Charlie came in, he brought in elements of a complex NFL offense, and Brady was able to execute for him," Parseghian said. "I think that gave him a running start."

Quinn opened his second series with a nice touch pass to Dont? Stallworth for an 18-yard gain. He fired a lovely touchdown strike through traffic to Kellen Winslow Jr. on third-and-goal from the 5.

"We'll see," Parseghian said, "but I've got a lot of confidence in him. I really do."

Parseghian grew up in Akron and lives in South Bend, Ind. He got to know Quinn fairly well while the latter was passing for 11,742 yards at Notre Dame.

"We're both from Ohio. That helped us hit it off," Parseghian said. "He's got all the qualities you need to be a successful quarterback in the NFL."
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Sports Spotlight: Hey Romeo, after another blown lead, is someone else's job in jeopardy?
Friday, November 7, 2008
BY TODD PORTER
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CLEVELAND The last time the Browns blew a two-score lead, someone lost a job.

Maybe the organization will start a trend.

Romeo Crennel watched his team blow a two-touchdown lead for the second time in less than a week. Derek Anderson lost his starting job the last time that happened.

Could Crennel be next? Mel Tucker?

"It's disappointing, this game tonight," Crennel said late Thursday night after he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. "That's two weeks in a row. It's disappointing that your defense can't hold a lead, that your defense does some of the simple things wrong, and poorly. A 93-yard touchdown pass should never, ever happen. ... It's unfortunate, it really is."

Crennel changed quarterbacks after Anderson failed to hold a 14-point lead against Baltimore on Sunday.

Brady Quinn played well enough to win (Anderson did so many Sundays, too), but not even the people's champ could not overcome dropped passes, missed assignments, ill-timed penalties and chaos around him.

If the brunt of a 3-5 start after half the season fell on Anderson's shoulders, where does the rest of this mess fall? Cleveland plays like a poorly coached, poorly organized team.

And around here, isn't it only fitting that a QB change be chased by a coaching change? Unlike Crennel's decision to start a 24-year-old QB with three days to prepare, the Browns' brass has 10 days before their next game. That's plenty of time to make a coaching change.

Blowing 27 points of leads in three quarters in games played within five days is almost comical. But this is Cleveland football.

It isn't funny any more.
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NFL
Broncos spoil Quinn's first start, defeat Browns 34-30

Thursday, November 6, 2008 11:36 PM
By Shawn Mitchell


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
CLEVELAND?Cleveland Browns Stadium was a shiny, happy place for a little more than two hours tonight.
Former Notre Dame and Dublin Coffman High School standout Brady Quinn made his first start for the Browns against the hated Broncos and for most of the game it appeared the former first-round pick would lead Cleveland past Denver for the first time since 1990, extracting a small but encouraging measure of revenge for The Drive, The Fumble and the three AFC Championship losses that kept the Browns from the Super Bowl in the 1980s.​
Jay Cutler, however, had other ideas. The Broncos quarterback led his team to a 34-30 victory with an Elway-esque fourth quarter performance the left most of the 73,141 muttering and the Browns sputtering.​
Cutler threw for a whopping 447 yards and, more importantly, three fourth-quarter touchdowns.
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JCOSU86;1317932; said:
NDC: please, take it from a life-long Cleveland fan DON'T FUCKING DO IT!!!!
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Well, unless you want to get away from the orange creme margaritas and develop a serious drinking habit.
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF;1317928; said:
Heck, when BQ ran out of that tunnel last night I was ready to make the switch.. That was the most fun I have had watching a pro game in a long time.
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It's not worth it man.

BQ looked great. I will admit when I am wrong and I was WRONG. I was on Irish Eyes over the summer telling those guys that BQ wouldn't play. Trade him for draft picks. DA is proven. Good Lord!!!!!!!!

That said, as a Cleveland fan you just can't get excited about anything because all you see when you look over the sports landscape of that town is...

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KC may be bad right now but there's always hope.

There is no hope for Browns fans. People who haven't lived it just can't understand. Maybe Cubs fans come close to understanding the heartache that is being a Cleveland sports fan, but even they had the Bulls and the Bears to salve their wounds.

Cleveland sports is nothing but "close but no cigar."

John Elway, Michael Jordan, The Marlins, Art Modell.

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Please fire Crennel today..........we need a coach with some fire in his gut......take most of the staff with him.........pathetic defensive performance.........simply a joke.

Kudos to Quinn.......the offense did what was needed to win the game.....scoring 30 + points should get a win.
 
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