Man-genius!?!

[DelhommesTheMan]

So the Browns are struggling offensively right now, so what does there coach do. He starts the backup QB for a game to try and salvage the season. If it doesnt work than im sure he goes back to Quinn, takes the first year lumps and see's what he's got for next season. Thats what most of you here are asking for..which is essentially giving up on the year is it not? Too start Moore only to have him be terrible will just lead us back to Jake and a losing season with nothing too prove. Than again Moore could blow up, and than it would be interesting. The situation is a bit opposite as they were starting there future while we are finishing up our soon to be past QB.

Sitting Jake will mean the season is over and that Fox has given up, until we are mathematically done, i dont see him doing that...But than again he's no Mangenius

[MurkN]

At this point sticking anyone besides Delhomme back there would be a positive. I'm not sure Moore or Feeley could turn it over 15 times in 4 games, maybe not even the rest of the season.

[CLTPanther]

Interesting fact I read today. The panthers have a combined 37 points so far this season. That's still not enough to win our first game against Philly.

[Khyber53]

I'm a big Delhomme fan, unrepentantly so. And I am waffling between whether benching him would be better or worse for the team.

I worry that he's got a case of the yips, and that can end a quarterback's career, fast.

(From Wikipedia: Yips, or The yips is an expression describing an apparently baseless sudden loss of ability in one of a number of different sports. Professional or leading amateur sportsmen affected by the Yips sometimes recover their ability, sometimes compensate by changing technique, or may be forced to abandon their sport at the highest level.)

Do we keep him in and let him continue working through it (there's been some signs that he is past it, even if the team isn't), or bench him and give Moore a shot?

If Jake can get his game back together, we know that he has the leadership skills to pull the team with him.He's shown it many times in the past, but it greatly depends on his confidence in himself and his desire to win.

On the other hand, traditional wisdom says that the finite number of games each season in the NFL (16 compared to over a hundred in some other sports) means each game is vital. If the game is on the line, conventional wisdom says you bench the quarterback and move to the back-up. Moore has been on the team long enough to hopefully perform well, and he does have some in game experience. So, he does deserve a shot.

But if he can't make it, and statistically there's every chance that he isn't up to caliber (a good quarterback at the professional level is very, very rare), then we've lost that and potentially devastated a good quarterback who might be on the road to recovery.

It's a devil of a choice. I'd prefer to see Jake under center when we play the Redskins in hope that the bye week gives him the time he needs to get it worked out. But a case could be made that they tell him, we want you to be on the sidelines for that one game, soaking it in.

But heck, I just don't know.