08-12-2015, 02:01 AM
(08-12-2015, 01:40 AM)Stormborn Wrote: It's almost like the Browns ordeal, you have nothing to gain starting McCown, and nothing to lose starting Manziel.
Bad teams stay bad.
I'm not saying McCown is going to be good or the Browns will do anything, but McCown had a 109 rating with 13 TDs to 1 INT in 8 games in 2013. I'm saying if you are a Browns fan you may have a better chance convincing yourself that McCown is going to magically return to that than Johnny Fartball is going to be anything but a bust.
Re-tread veterans may not get fans hard, but it's easy for us to tell a HC to just toss some unprepared kid out there and just hope he succeeds against all odds and then if/when he doesn't expect the coach to say "Hey, he's young and stuff!" and that be enough to keep his job.