Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I'm starting to love Twitter. Cleveland Browns Offseason: Browns Sign New WildDawg Quarterback Jarrett Brown By Samuel Ingro (Analyst) on January 6, 2011 December 21st, Jarrett Brown tried out for the Cleveland Browns, and on January 6th, he has officially signed on board. The former West Virgina Mountaineer quarterback announced the deal Thursday morning himself via his Twitter account, "I got some exciting new for you guys...wait let me catch my breath!!! Sigh, now, I'm officially a Brown!! http://plixi.com/p/68229248." With three injured quarterback this season, it appears Tom Heckert is taking no chances, stockpiling passers this offseason. Brown will likely compete in Cleveland this training camp for a backup role, possibly in the often-elusive and seldom seen WildDawg set, in lieu of Seneca Wallace. As Browns fans should recall, during the season Wallace publicly voiced his frustrations with not starting over Jake Delhomme, and shortly after, he saw a drop-off of his field time. While he has a history with team president Mike Holmgren, a disgruntled player in the locker room is something former-coach Eric Mangini worked hard to get rid of, and will likely be a tradition that will continue. Seneca Wallace has played out the duration of his contract and will enter free agency this offseason, it is unlikely he will be brought back to the Browns sideline. Jake Delhomme currently has one more season left, but it is unknown if Colt McCoy's mentor will be brought back with his hefty $7 million dollar price tag. The signing of Jarrett Brown will cushion the loss of Wallace, who scouts praise as a highly mobile passer with a quick release and a cannon for an arm. After previously being considered a third round prospect, Brown went undrafted before being picked up afterwards by the San Francisco 49ers. He was released from the 49ers practice squad following the signing of former-Heisman winner Troy Smith when Nate Davis was demoted into his spot. At West Virginia, the 6'3, 224 pound passer played in 38 games for the Mountaineers. He posted a 63.7% completion rate while racking up 2,983 yards and 16 touchdowns in a run-first offense. He also rushed 234 times for 1,138 yards and another 13 touchdowns. The possibility of Colt McCoy being the starter and Jarrett Brown being the WildDawg backup for the next decade, is an new concept of stability that has rarely been seen on the shores of Lake Erie. Welcome to Cleveland Jarrett, it's going to be an exciting season. Goodbye Seneca. Thankfully, Holmgren apparently shares Mangini's beliefs on locker room cancers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Goodbye Seneca. Thankfully, Holmgren apparently shares Mangini's beliefs on locker room cancers. i guess this is the only way that the signing of this guy makes sense. sign a player but not have a HC is a head-scratcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRREBEL Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 yeah cause we dont want guys who want to start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosar_For_President Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Are they keeping the Wild Cat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 i guess this is the only way that the signing of this guy makes sense. sign a player but not have a HC is a head-scratcher. Yeah. It's also a head-scratcher because Seneca was Holmgren's guy. Unless Holmgren knows of a trade in the works for Seneca, I don't understand this move at all. But, for some reason I'm really liking what I've seen from Brown. It's way too early to say anything, but he looks like a great WildDawg QB. I just want us to actually throw from the WildDawg, or run an option, or do something that isn't 'Josh Cribbs run left on one.' I want a Brad Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gips Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I'm starting to love Twitter. Goodbye Seneca. Thankfully, Holmgren apparently shares Mangini's beliefs on locker room cancers. I seriously doubt seneca is going anywhere afterall holmgren tolorated him for 7 years in seattle and he will be operating in an acceptable offense he knows all about instead of mangini's power punt system.. I think you are confusing a more open locker room under holmgren with cancer but why the FO brings a guy in instead of waiting to see what a coach thinks is confusing..of course holmgren is a coach.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I seriously doubt seneca is going anywhere afterall holmgren tolorated him for 7 years in seattle and he will be operating in an acceptable offense he knows all about instead of mangini's power punt system.. I think you are confusing a more open locker room under holmgren with cancer but why the FO brings a guy in instead of waiting to see what a coach thinks is confusing..of course holmgren is a coach.. That's why it could be that maybe there's a trade brewing for Seneca. He's already voiced his displeasure with not starting, his contract expires, and he proved this year that he can handle the starting load with absolutely no WR's. Some team out there might want him (Carolina). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRREBEL Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I told you twitter is great. You should follow jay crawford and Jon gruden on there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepwrite Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Wallace isn't getting a starting gig anywhere... he played his whole career in the WCO that we'll likely install... and he was never a "locker room cancer" before. I kinda doubt he's one now. He said very little and it wasn't very provocative. He wanted to start. You want that from your quarterbacks. And anybody who DIDN'T think it was crazy to start Delhomme realizes it now. Delhomme is not gonna be paid 7 mill next year by anybody including the Browns. I don't believe he's ever played in a WCO. He's 53 or at least looks like it on the field. Don't see why we'd bring him back just to be McCoy's babysitter. Brown will probably compete with a fifth round pick to be the Browns developmental QB behind McCoy and a veteran who knows the WCO... perhaps Wallace. Problem with Brown is he isn't very bright, has a learning disability. Tough to play NFL QB like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longhorn Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 It's a wild shot, but maybe they also convert this guy to play some scatback or a slot receiver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gafreleets Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 waste of roster space the wild dog/cat/bear/horse/platypuss (etc......) is no longer worth running in the NFL. miami was able to get a decent year with it because it took everyone by suprise. making roster to run what is basically a gimick play is the wrong way to go...........especially when you don't have a HC. but hey, it's the browns.......................what else would you expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpeen Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 i guess this is the only way that the signing of this guy makes sense. sign a player but not have a HC is a head-scratcher. Not really....the new coach isn't going to be signing players. The wave of the NFL dictates you have a wild package, and this kid can run it. Wallace is all but gone and the Josh Cribbs experiment needs to end in so far a being a QB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Wallace isn't getting a starting gig anywhere... he played his whole career in the WCO that we'll likely install... and he was never a "locker room cancer" before. I kinda doubt he's one now. He said very little and it wasn't very provocative. He wanted to start. You want that from your quarterbacks. And anybody who DIDN'T think it was crazy to start Delhomme realizes it now. Delhomme is not gonna be paid 7 mill next year by anybody including the Browns. I don't believe he's ever played in a WCO. He's 53 or at least looks like it on the field. Don't see why we'd bring him back just to be McCoy's babysitter. Brown will probably compete with a fifth round pick to be the Browns developmental QB behind McCoy and a veteran who knows the WCO... perhaps Wallace. Problem with Brown is he isn't very bright, has a learning disability. Tough to play NFL QB like that. I disagree about Wallace on the starting gig front. He's certainly shown he's capable of being a starter. There are teams out there that need that, teams like Minnesota, Carolina, San Fran, Arizona, and now even Tennessee. It's not crazy to think that he couldn't be a starter somewhere. But it is on the unlikely side. As for him being a cancer, maybe that is taking it a bit too far. Of course you want your players to feel the itch to start. Of course you want them to voice their displeasure if they feel they're better suited than who's currently in place. But I think, as a coach, you'd want them to voice this displeasure with you and your staff. Not the media. Not the rest of the team. That's how factions start, how divisions are formed. And a locker room that's divided doesn't win on Sundays. I'd like us to keep Seneca insted of Jake. Jake needs to be gone yesterday. He was God-awful and he's not getting better. And as far as the learning disability goes, I think that's something that's been blown out of proportion. The guy ran a fast-paced no-huddle Spread Option offense in West Virginia under Rich Rod and Bill Stewart. RichRod's offense (which is actually Stewart's offense), requires the QB to be fed a number of plays on the field and for the QB to check audible to whichever one best fit whatever the defense showed them, a la Peyton Manning (Note: I am not comparing Brown to Manning). And in the Spread Option, the QB has to read pitch man and know gap responsibility, as well as reading the blitzes and coverages during the play. I think his mind is sharp enough. Is he a Rhodes scholar? Maybe not, but that doesn't mean he's slow. So what if it takes him a little longer to learn the plays. At least he'll pick them up faster than Daboll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 waste of roster space the wild dog/cat/bear/horse/platypuss (etc......) is no longer worth running in the NFL. miami was able to get a decent year with it because it took everyone by suprise. making roster to run what is basically a gimick play is the wrong way to go...........especially when you don't have a HC. but hey, it's the browns.......................what else would you expect? Brad Smith is sure running it pretty well in New York. But you wouldn't know about that, because you don't watch any other games except for the first half of Steeler games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I told you twitter is great. You should follow jay crawford and Jon gruden on there both from my hometown. but twitter is for kids. just like texting. why text when you can talk to the person. OMG!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Buffalo Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I personally don't view him as a cancer. I said he wanted to start ahead of a worse QB and didn't really speak out until Mangini was gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 both from my hometown. but twitter is for kids. just like texting. why text when you can talk to the person. OMG!!!!!!!! I thought so too. But it's a good way to get breaking news, actually. Since it's the new social network medium and theres an app for it available on any electronic device anymore, whenever someone hears something, it goes to Twitter instantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c-dawg Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 I like this pickup since Seneca is on the way out. Jarret played well at WVU has some elusiveness. Better size than Pat White so I like the move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClevelandBigDawg Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Could just be camp fodder, could be someone in the plans, as a WR/emergency QB type player/Special Teamer. Who knows this early in the offseason. If he proves himself he can make the squad, if others prove to be better options, we will go the other route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BendMeOver Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Why are you debating who this guy will replace on your team? This guy is a 4th string QB for training camp. He was signed for peanuts. If the browns find someone better, he's as likely gone as any of the other QB on your roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nw220 Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Yeah hes not gonna be running and wilddawg here with Cribbs or someone else thats better, watched alot of WVU football and he was good alot and terrible alot as well, he will be holding a clipboard or cut..Way to big to be converted to a WR maybe a TE but theres alot of work into that....And did someone just say he has a learning disability well damn there goes that option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 waste of roster space the wild dog/cat/bear/horse/platypuss (etc......) is no longer worth running in the NFL. miami was able to get a decent year with it because it took everyone by suprise. making roster to run what is basically a gimick play is the wrong way to go...........especially when you don't have a HC. but hey, it's the browns.......................what else would you expect? The Jets used it successfully to do 2 things: A. Beat the Steelers B. Beat the Colts in the playoffs. The Browns last year with Josh Cribbs ran it and it helped beat the Steelers. It can still be useful if it is run right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Why are you debating who this guy will replace on your team? This guy is a 4th string QB for training camp. He was signed for peanuts. If the browns find someone better, he's as likely gone as any of the other QB on your roster. Why are we debating this? Because we are Browns fans and we talk about anything that may have to do with the Browns, from the Owner/GM/HC to the 4th string QB. The question of replacing Seneca Wallace on the team as the 2d/3d/4th string QB is legit since apparently Wallace is a Free Agent, plus he has groaned somewhat about his use/place with the Browns and we all figure he is gonzo. So why not talk about who else might be here to take up those roster spots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpeen Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Yeah hes not gonna be running and wilddawg here with Cribbs or someone else thats better, watched alot of WVU football and he was good alot and terrible alot as well, he will be holding a clipboard or cut..Way to big to be converted to a WR maybe a TE but theres alot of work into that....And did someone just say he has a learning disability well damn there goes that option Forget Cribbs in that role. The guy is used up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Buffalo Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Why are we debating this? Because we are Browns fans and we talk about anything that may have to do with the Browns, from the Owner/GM/HC to the 4th string QB. The question of replacing Seneca Wallace on the team as the 2d/3d/4th string QB is legit since apparently Wallace is a Free Agent, plus he has groaned somewhat about his use/place with the Browns and we all figure he is gonzo. So why not talk about who else might be here to take up those roster spots? Not so. The person who cared about cancers (even though I don't think Wallace is a cancer) was Mangini. He is gone. Plus Wallace said that he would love to sign again with the Browns since Mangini is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nw220 Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Forget Cribbs in that role. The guy is used up. May be used up but they still used him in the last game agasnt the steelers right? And the main point i was trying to make was that Jarrett is not suited to run the wilddawg he is to big maybe on shortyardage situations, im pretty sure he runs the 40 at around 4.7 and you dont want that as a WildDawg formation player see Cribbs (or past tense Cribbs) Brad Smith, Ronnie Brown Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 May be used up but they still used him in the last game agasnt the steelers right? And the main point i was trying to make was that Jarrett is not suited to run the wilddawg he is to big maybe on shortyardage situations, im pretty sure he runs the 40 at around 4.7 and you dont want that as a WildDawg formation player see Cribbs (or past tense Cribbs) Brad Smith, Ronnie Brown Etc. He ran a 4.53 in the combine. Not fast, but not slow. In comparison, Brad Smith ran a 4.47. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownIndian Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Maybe we should really sign a wild dog. a Dingo perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manbearpig Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 I love how our season is over, we're chatting about signings and stuff for next year (about the Cleveland Browns, on The Browns Board) but the trolls are still here and have to comment (negativly) on this thread. Way to go you no life losers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Maybe we should really sign a wild dog. a Dingo perhaps. It will just eat Big Baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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