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Hey, if they didn't go on that run you know he wouldn't have been here. You send me back in time and I still wouldn't have even fathomed the Giants winning the Super Bowl, much less even going. I never thought he was a problem, There was just too many late season collapses to let it go again.

Reading Bill Simmons mail bag and seeing this question made me find the quote below.  oh danny!

And now, for your reading pleasure, a list of performances that are better than Brandon Weeden's QB rating from Sunday (5.1 out of 158.3, 3.2%)

• Caddyshack II's Rotten Tomatoes rating (8 out of 100)
• Michael Jordan's 1994 Batting Average with the Birmingham Barons (.202)
• Eli Manning's "Man Coverage" rating in Madden 13 (8 out of 99)
• Number of bullets the cow from Me, Myself and Irene survived (9)
• Number of kayaking medals Hungary won in the 2012 Summer Olympics (6)
• Master P's Zombie Shuffle score on Dancing With The Stars (8 out of 30)
• Number of disambiguation entries in Wikipedia for the word "panini" (7)
• Shaq's career 3-point percentage (1 of 22, 4.5%)
• Number of days David Arquette was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion (12)
• Nick Swisher's Swinging Strike Percentage … as a Pitcher (8%)
• And finally, Colt McCoy's worst-ever QB Rating (27.0)
— Travis Marttila, Roseville, MN

SG: Weeden also led Week 1 in the unofficial categories of "Most Passes That Made Any Group of Buddies Watching Football Together Immediately Laugh Out Loud" and "Most Certain You Felt That Someone Was Going to Throw a Game-Ending Pick." Weeden's game-ending pick was so obvious, I was toggling channels, forgot to switch back to the Browns in time, then thought to myself, Crap, we're going to miss Weeden's game-ending pick during those two seconds of darkness before the next DirecTV channel comes up … and, of course, we missed it. You can't rest for a second with Brandon Weeden.

Then again, has there ever been a better match between a QB and an NFL team? In their last 14 games dating back to last season, Cleveland has scored just 14 offensive touchdowns (with four coming in garbage time). In their last 65 games dating back to September 2008, Browns quarterbacks have only thrown for 250 yards or more six times (including just three 300-yard games). Over that same time, they threw under 200 yards 39 times (including 27 times under 150 yards). People joke about Weeden being a ghastly pick; I think he was perfect. If you're going to flame out at quarterback every season, why not find the biggest Duraflame log you can get? I applaud Cleveland's courage and resilience with the Brandon Weeden Era. Sometimes you just have to embrace who you are.

 

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Chase Cox wrote:

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 Brandon Weeden is good, he will jump into the first round. He will be good too.

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from peter king today:

 

I think Seattle’s 2012 draft should be a clarion call to the smart people in our business to knock off draft grades. They are stupid. They are mindless and misleading candy for fans and those who think no one remembers what’s written or said 10 minutes after it’s published or aired. I looked back on the comments from the days after the 2012 draft—in order, Seattle’s top four picks were Bruce Irvin, Bobby Wagner, Russell Wilson and Robert Turbin—and the only good draft grade I found while searching over the weekend was a “B” from my buddy and veteran NFL scribe John Czarnecki of FOXSports.com … even though now that class, after just two years, produced the offensive and defensive signal-callers (Wilson and Wagner) of the Super Bowl XLVIII champions and was clearly the best draft of any team in the league that year. As Czarnecki wrote: “Coach Pete Carroll is hoping Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson (75th overall pick) develops into Drew Brees. The knock on Wilson is his height; he’s only 5-foot-10, a tad shorter than the 6-foot Brees. But he can throw a deep ball, is very athletic and off-the-charts in the locker room. He can be a great leader.” Sampling other grades:

 

• NFL.com: C-plus. Seattle “took a lot of chances.”
• CBSSports.com: C-plus. Seattle “took Russell Wilson in the third when they just signed Matt Flynn. Why?”
• SI.com: C. “Russell Wilson has a bright future, even if Seattle really didn’t need him.”
• Mel Kiper: C-minus.
• Bleacher Report: D. The Seahawks “messed up … with Russell Wilson after having signed Matt Flynn this offseason.” (Another Bleacher Report draft review gave the Seahawks the only “F” grade in the class.)
• USA Today: Didn’t grade drafts with a letter, but basically did the same thing, ranking the drafts from 1 to 32. Seattle was 26th.

-- Edited by MFisH on Monday 10th of February 2014 10:02:38 PM