He'd have me at, "We're not just drafting Brady Quinn, we're drafting the entire Quinn family...including his brother-in-law"

I'd have to root against him if he were at Miami

it's good to have guys like Favre that can get short passes to the receiver in a hurry. Announcers love to carp about big armed QBs who are able to laser a ball between three defenders, which doesn't really work with loopy balls. However, I thought Quinn had shown a more-than-adequate short game throughout his career.

Which makes the whole situation that much more frustrating. It's difficult for me to envision a scenario, outside of a hail mary, where having a guy who can throw it 50 vs. 70 yards is going to make a difference. Give me the Field General who can consistently throw the 15-20 yard out any day.

I think part of the problem is that Browns fans haven't seen a potent offensive attack in some time (2007 being an aberration). They figure a guy that can toss it long is going to immediately translate into home run balls 3-4 times a game.

What exactly is the point of a "big" arm? Can't all these guys heave it long enough? I know there are guys like Pennington who struggle because they lack arm strength, but I find it a little absurd to prioritize throwing a football 75 yards versus just 60 yards when you're talking about passes that will probably make up .01% of the throws in your career.

Reason has no place.

But yes, this is what everyone who supports Quinn says. Arm strength was not a criticism, but accuracy was. That's going all the way back to the draft scouting reports. What I think these people mean is that he doesn't have a "big" arm like Anderson, Cutler, Russell, etc. Of course, neither do Brady or Manning, and that hasn't hurt them.

I remember several times when Quinn was way off the mark on a long bomb to receivers, but I don't know if I can recall a time when he came up short on a throw. And besides, look at the guy.

I guess I haven't been paying attention, but I always thought the knock on him was accuracy, not strength.

And some of the sportswriters, too. While the majority of Cle fans would kill to see Quinn start, the rest of them are concerned that he has a noodle arm and can't get it done because of that.

All in all, it's best that the Browns didn't trade Quinn. He's essentially the only thing holding many of the fans interest, and one of the main reasons people will still be interested this year even though Mangini has made it clear he's rebuilding "from top to bottom". If they got rid of him and made Anderson the de facto starter this year, I'd fly home just to burn down the Berea training facility and pee on it's ashes.

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him as far away from Oakland as he could get.

then, maybe it's for the best that BQ take the long road to a starting job.

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isn't all that.

Jeff Garcia is in negotiations with the Raiders and is expected to finalize a deal today.

No one saw what a fraud Jamarcus was. Right.

IMO Brady Quinn was light years ahead of Russell at draft time and their careers eventually will bear that out. I sure hope BQ gets his chance. Maybe it will be in Cle. but someone is going to get a good QB.