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What to make of winless preseason
OK, what did we learn from this 0-4 preseason?
I’m open to suggestions, but here’s what I think we know after watching as much of those four games as I could possibly endure:
1. Three quarterbacks might not be enough. If Derek Anderson can’t shake the concussion cobwebs, Brady Quinn will step in and do a decent job. I’m confident of that. He has the skills and the makeup. But what happens if Quinn goes down? Then you’re stuck with Ken Dorsey and then your season is over. Scary. Better start massaging that emergency list.
2. There’s not enough depth. It’s the best talent we’ve seen on a Cleveland roster since the franchise’s 1999 rebirth, but they still look short in a few spots, namely cornerback, safety, running back and maybe receiver (although Braylon Edwards apparently is 100 percent now after the heel injury sustained during horseplay with fellow wideout Donte Stallworth). And you know there are going to be more injuries.
3. Panic is unwarranted — at least for now. Upset the Cowboys next week and nobody will care about a winless preseason or how bad they looked at times. At least we know the team won’t be suffering from a false sense of superiority off anything that happened in August. And maybe we won’t have to hear about how they took a team lightly, as was the case last season in an early loss at Oakland.
4. Ty Law would look good in an orange helmet. The cornerbacks are young and the safeties are hurting. If Law has anything left, the Browns probably need to find out, within financial reason, of course. He knows the defense, at least, and could help on the field and off.
5. It’s a fact being tossed around to placate the fans and make them feel good: The 1972 Browns went 0-6 in preseason — can you believe they actually played six of these things back then? — and still made the playoffs, losing to the undefeated Miami Dolphins, who went 17-0 that year. And the quarterback was Mike Phipps, so maybe there’s hope.
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