I'm sure Dick LeBeau is terrified at the thought of having to come up with plans for different starting QBs in the opening game.

Isn't Romeo just one more bit of ammo for the argument that the skill sets required for being a coordinator and being a head coach are completely different?

Well, it's the difference between having your corners and backers jump routes short because the QBs have crap accuracy and noodle arms or blitzing and having your safeties play deep zones when the newbie hucks it in fear.

Isn't that what he says he wants? For them to spend time scheming for both QBs? It's not like if the team said nothing that the other team would, I dunno, flip a coin and decide which QB to prepare for, they'd do it anyway

When I saw that title on this day, I assumed this would report that the Child had been christened Romeo Moynahan-Brady.

"Crennel sometimes prompts those warm, fuzzy, bear-huggable, uncle-I-never-had feelings that I only get from certain NFL head coaches (Mike Holmgren or Andy Reid, for example)."

So you are a chubby chaser?

I agree it's stupid but when your offense is as inept as the Browns you have to come up with some pretty cockamamie ideas to keep it fun at least. I can picture Crennel twirling his moustache and cackling maniacally to himself as he came up with this latest scheme. He's no Dr. Moriarity but at least it's a start.

As for the coin flip, there's good precedent for using random luck to decide something about which one is indifferent, Buridan's Ass. A link to the subject is furnished below.

I not sure it's a fantastic idea not to commit and I sure wish a QB was making the choice easy, but the premise of your article is not supported by a lot of what I read.

Take Romo's fall from grace last year -- many attribute it to having a few weeks of film for the D coordinators to study. It's the story we were told about Kelly Holcomb's success -- the D didn't have time to scheme him. And everyone in Pittsburgh who came in mid-season from Tommy Maddox to Ben Rothlisberger to Charlie Batch started really strongly (and has had subsequent struggles). it all speaks to the need to game plan a particular QB.

#7 - Kudos to you, thats the second Moriarity reference inside a week on FO. We really should keep a tally.

He lost me at the coin flip.

Rowdy, the mere fact that any reader on this website has even heard of the Mises Institute proves once and for all that the consumers of FO's content are the smartest in all of football fandom. I become smarter just reading the comments.

Alas, I live in the Philadelphia area, so listening to the sports talk radio here negates any intelligence I may gain by reading this post.

Just because he doesn't announce a starter to the media doesn't mean he can't let the team know who's going to be the starter. I guess I don't see what the big deal is.

#7:

I'm a proponent of the tenet of "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice' (Rush) myself :-)

#7. Thanks. I'm reading this site in an effort to put off reading a paper about Buridan's Ass, and you have to go and remind me that I'm slacking off from work!

I have watched the Panthers for years suck at playing teams with unexpected or new starters. Three times last season we were tortured by quarterbacks starting their second game for their respective teams; Romo, Garcia, Campbell.

It is difficult to scheme for a quarterback only to have someone else back there with an entirely different skill set and tendencies. It is also difficult to try to prepare two defensive plans. A defender wants to go into the game knowing what he is going to do in whatever situation. If that situation depends on who the quarterback might be, its a nightmare for the defense.

As a long suffering Browns fan, you summed up my emotions of the "QB controversy" completely. What I don't understand is this, Frye and Anderson are so inept that neither looks like they want to be the starting QB, so we're going to hold Quinn out until the bye week when we are 1-5. So how exactly does Quinn get more prepared by getting only 20% of the 1st team reps as the #2 QB for 6 weeks as opposed to getting 80% as the designated starter for the remained of camp?

The difference between successful NFL Head Coaches and unsuccessful ones generally comes down to how they handle the QB's. Those who can't seem to make up their mind tend not to last long. Those who pick a guy and play him until he makes it or breaks it and then makes aswitch adn sticks with it tend to succeed.

wow. this is a pretty strong reaction to a pretty benign story. you like most of the other things he's done but are flipping out bc he says he won't announce his starter? let's relax everyone. rip on the guy bc his oline still sucks and his offense hasn't looked so hot either. bc outside of leigh bodden we don't see much development of young players on the d - basically after 3 years there has been little to no improvement.

Currently on Sports Pickle.

"Embarrassing Photos of Brady Quinn Dressed as a Cleveland Brown Hit the Internet".

Re 17:
I think you're really just saying that if a coach is choosing between a couple of bad QBs, he's not going to be a coach for much longer.

You know, I wish the Bears had recieved the benefits of the new QB gets hot when they first start theory. Unfortunately, it doesn't really help guys like Henry Burris, Jonathon Quinn, or Cade McNown.

I don't see the big deal either. His buddy Charlie Weiss is employing the same strategy at ND. I think we have a Browns fan here whose years of frustartion are catching up with him.

You know, I wish the Bears had recieved the benefits of the new QB gets hot when they first start theory.

Ummm...Rex Grossman, anyone?

Re 20:

Don't you remember Chad Hutchinson throwing 4 touchdowns against the Vikings in 2004?