Browns Sign Delhomme, Prove Why They Suck
by aramnath on Mar 16, 2010 2:12 PM EDT
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"My own belief is this team needs an aging veteran," Holmgren said. "They need a guy that is going to grab everybody by the throat and say, 'Follow me through that door.' I don't look at him as an aging veteran, I look at him as the leader I wanted.
After reading that I question Mike Holmgren's ability to turn around the Cleveland Browns' fortunes. I mean I know Holmgren was in retirement last year, but please tell me he took the time to actually look at what Jake Delhomme has done in the last 12 games he played. Who the hell would follow this guy anywhere after the season he just had?
To describe his play as anything other than an abomination would be generous. In his last playoff game he threw 5 interceptions, which somehow convinced the Panthers to give him a 5-year, $42.5 million extension including $20 million guaranteed. Carolina still owes him $12 million after cutting him. They would rather pay this guy eight figures to go play somewhere else and Cleveland obliged. Here's a comparison of Delhomme's last 12 starts compared to the Oakland Raiders' JaMarcus Russell.
QB
Comp.
Att.
Pct.
Yds.
TD
Int.
Rating
Delhomme
195
355
.549
2220
9
23
55.4
Russell
145
283
.512
1690
8
11
62.9
I honestly can't imagine a more ridiculous decision being made by Holmgren. This is a guy in charge of turning around an NFL franchise that has been a league-wide joke for most of the past decade and has flamed out with multiple quarterbacks starting with Tim Couch and the latest casualties being Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn. So naturally after you make a smart trade for Seneca Wallace you decide to sign a guy to be your starter that's managed to be worse than Russell .
Damn. Here I was feeling bad for myself being a Bills fan. Oh wait we still haven't signed anybody this offseason. I'm not sure what's worse. Deciding not to spend any money at all to improve a 6 win team or spending money on a 35 year old quarterback who's coming off of a historically bad 12 game stretch to be a game changer for a 5 win club. Oh I almost forgot to mention that Cleveland gave him $7 million guaranteed. I didn't know that Holmgren also worked for AIG.
I hope for the sake of Cleveland Browns fans that Delhomme doesn't suck, but now that he doesn't even have the luxury of having Steve Smith to throw too that seems highly unlikely.
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Why they signed Jake
The Browns are going to draft a QB. He’ll help the kid with the nuances of the game, while Seneca Wallace will be the career/emergency back up in case Jake continues to flounder.
I know it sounds crazy, but what other veteran QB’s are out there?
Well not any longer there aren't but
you can’t tell me that if they had offered Chad Pennington the starter’s job he wouldn’t have come. His past relationship with Mangini may be rocky, but he’s an infinitely better option than Delhomme. Even a guy like Jon Kitna would have been a better option or why not give Seneca Wallace a chance to start. He has always been effective backing up Hasselbeck and done well when called upon to start games. If anything it would make for a fun backfield pairing him together with Josh Cribbs.
wow, that comparison to Russell was brilliant. I honestly didn’t watch a Panthers game all year, so when I heard that he was playing poorly…i just thought it was compared to his prior above-averageness…but those numbers in context are staggering. What a sharp decline.
Pennington would have been ideal if available…look what he did year 1 in Miami.
Yeah my buddy hates Pennington because he’s screwed him on the spread either covering or not many times but gambling aside I think he would have been the perfect choice. Veteran guy who’s knowledge of the game is second to none. I mean this is a guy so obsessed with knowing the ins and outs of the system he plays in that he took his playbook with him on his honeymoon after he got drafted.
The mess that is the Cleveland Browns
The Jake Delhomme signing in Cleveland tells me that the Browns will continue to flounder moving forward. Delhomme had no market as a starting QB and his body of work the last 2 seasons suggest that he is back-up material at best. Holmgren was stripped of personnel duties in Seattle and so his reward when hired in Cleveland was to be given personnel duties. Go figure! The signing of Jake clearly shows he has not improved in this area.
Jake Delhomme must have naked pictures of Marty Hurney, John Fox and Holmgren. Delhomme is going to make 20 million dollars this season. To put this in perspective… Julius Peppers and Jake Delhomme will make the same amout of money in 2010. Think what you will of Peppers as a player……..at least he helps his team to win games……..while Jake Delhomme helps the other team to win games. And to think the Browns balked and dragged their feet with the Josh Cribbs contract for over a year. Amazing!
The Browns were once a flagship franchise. My, oh my , have times changed.
@cardsfan81
I agree, to me it’s not the fact that they signed the guy…there will always be a market for an experienced signal caller in the NFL, I’m fairly confident that Rodney Peete could probably land a job somewhere if he wanted to…but it’s the amount of money that’s bizarre….who else was willing to pay him that kind of money?
That being said, I’m rooting for him…I’m all for aging veterans taking one last shot at glory. Maybe Seneca Wallace can be Willie Beamen to Delhomme’s Cap Rooney.
Cap Rooney was a legend though. He won three League Championships. I don’t know if I’d ever say Delhomme was that good. Willie Beamen would be more than welcome though if Seneca can pull it off.
My name is Willie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWJRSL-JBQ
I dont think it was a bad move
Sure Delhome may be on the decline but they had to do something
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seneca wallace has been in the holgrem system his entire career. why would you bring in a horrible veteran quarterback that hasn’t played in the system to help coach a rookie? why not just let seneca start and help the rookie in the system? (assuming that they draft a QB of the future)
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