A starting QB and the AFC's top punt returner going down in the same game? That's what happened in the Cleveland Browns' matchup with Super Bowl champion Giants late Monday night. After taking a big hit from Giants DE Osi Umenyiora, Derek Anderson was motionless for a few seconds before being helped from the field. Anderson suffered both a hand injury, which Head Coach Romeo Crennel doesn't appear to be too concerned about - he is more concerned with the severity of the concussion Anderson suffered.
He is already confirmed as being out of the Browns' third pre-season game, providing Brady Quinn with his first opportunity to show the Browns' Brass what he is capable of - leading your team on 69 and 63 yard scoring drives is a good way of starting this, and it will be interesting to see if this can continue; despite Crennel's protestations at the end of the season that there was a clear #1 in Cleveland, this situation could create another QB dilemma in the NFL, following Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Arizona and Atlanta.
Tuesday 19 August 2008
Ronnie Brown rumours get blown out of all proportion
As Armando Salguero discusses here, There have been plenty of rumours that Ronnie Brown is done in Miami, and that the team will attempt to trade him, or release him, before the season begins.
There is an unprintable word for such rumours.
This reminds us of last season, when Jesse Chatman was supposed to run Brown out of town. Chatman was nothing more than a semi-decent backup, while Brown tore up the league in the 7 games that he played before a blown ACL ended his season prematurely. This year, Chatman's role is filled by the ageing Ricky Williams - who should still have gas in the tank after spending so long out of football - but we suspect a similiar ruse by the 'fins, if only to motivate Brown to recapture the form of last season.
Of course he could be completely done and his knee destroyed, but we'd imagine that would have been evident before now. Incidentally, should that be the case, the top 3 running backs from the vaunted 2005 draft class, Brown, Caddilac Williams, and Cedric Benson, will likely all not play in 2008 for varying reasons.
A stark reminder of the lottery that is the NFL draft.
There is an unprintable word for such rumours.
This reminds us of last season, when Jesse Chatman was supposed to run Brown out of town. Chatman was nothing more than a semi-decent backup, while Brown tore up the league in the 7 games that he played before a blown ACL ended his season prematurely. This year, Chatman's role is filled by the ageing Ricky Williams - who should still have gas in the tank after spending so long out of football - but we suspect a similiar ruse by the 'fins, if only to motivate Brown to recapture the form of last season.
Of course he could be completely done and his knee destroyed, but we'd imagine that would have been evident before now. Incidentally, should that be the case, the top 3 running backs from the vaunted 2005 draft class, Brown, Caddilac Williams, and Cedric Benson, will likely all not play in 2008 for varying reasons.
A stark reminder of the lottery that is the NFL draft.
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