Dear Phil and Romeo,
Please, for the love of all things holy, SIGN A VETERAN QUARTERBACK!!
I was a Charlie Frye apologist for the first few weeks of the season, but the dude is KILLING this team right now. Bring someone in who can make quicker decisions; who can throw the ball away; who can NOT FUMBLE ON HIS OWN TWO FUCKING YARD LINE; who can see the field and actually find an open man, as opposed to throwing into triple coverage more often than not.
I want to like the kid. I really do. Semi-local boy, grew up loving the Browns, tough as nails. All positives. But he's not ready to be an NFL starting quarterback, and may never be.
You say you're going to "coach him out" of holding onto the ball too long and taking sacks? How about doing it with him on the sideline watching a veteran QB actually doing it??
There's still time to make this season at least respectable. You could have won that game in San Diego if Frye hadn't fumbled the ball into his own endzone for a Charger touchdown, and if you had a quarterback that could make good enough decisions to instill enough confidence in your offensive coordinator to actually throw the ball in the red zone. Six field goals was a neat team record, but four field goals and two touchdowns would have won you the game.
Seriously. I don't want a new QB in the draft (though I'm sure there are some out there *cough*Lars*cough* that want Troy Smith). I want a PROVEN VETERAN. Someone who can read the defense and throw to the open man/hot read and NOT take six sacks a game and/or NOT fumble/throw the ball to the other team with great regularity.
I don't think that's too much to ask. I also don't think the team is that far away from being *gasp* competitive, even considering how banged up they are.
Let's get on it.
Sincerely,
DP
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i'd settle for anyone that looks at more than 1 receiver before he throws.
i know troy wouldn't have the time to go through 5 guys like he does at OSU... but i'd think he could still get through 3. not all of frye's problems were the OL's fault.
i wonder how much of his bad habits are due to mo carthon keeping the offense ridiculously simple. when you don't allow a guy to audible to hot routes, how is he ever supposed to learn to throw to a check down receiver in NFL speed?
I wonder how many of the offenses woes and the shitty playcalling has to do with Frye himself.
If he locks onto a receiver, there is no way they can go downfield when there is safety help over the top. That is just easy pickings.
He is probably mandated to the short throws because all the warning in the world is not going to affect a quick short pass to the TE or the RBs.
Really though, I could see the playbook limitations to be Frye's fault at this point. The guy has no field vision whatsoever.
Frye's like the "Field Vision" in Madden. His whole screen goes black except for the light on the one receiver who's the primary.
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