Daily Dawg Tags: Browns quarterback situation remains in flux
By Thomas Moore
The Cleveland Browns have a game on Sunday and do not know who the starting quarterback will be. So what else is new?
The Cleveland Browns are busy packing their bags for Sunday’s “home game” in London against the Minnesota Vikings.
But before they leave town, head coach Hue Jackson has to decide who will be the starting quarterback when the Browns take the field at Twickenham Stadium.
In what has become a weekly exercise in futility, Jackson will watch the tape before deciding if rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer learned enough from being benched for the second time in three games, or if the Browns should trot out Cody Kessler or Kevin Hogan for another shot.
No doubt, the Vikings are cowering in their meeting rooms.
Cleveland Browns news:
Hue Jackson is making the quarterback situation worse
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but the Cleveland Browns have a problem at the quarterback position. This time, however, head coach Hue Jackson deserves as much of the blame as the actual players.
DPD Podcast: Breaking down the 0-7 start
Cleveland Browns fans have a lot to discuss after the team fell to 0-7, switching quarterbacks and losing Joe Thomas for the year all in one afternoon.
Joe Thomas done for the season with torn triceps
The Cleveland Browns will be without left tackle Joe Thomas for the rest of the season after it was confirmed he suffered a torn triceps muscle.
Joe Thomas will decide his future in the offseason (ohio.com)
"Browns 10-time Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Thomas can retire whenever he wants with the luxury of knowing he’ll be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame five years later. But what Thomas explained Monday is he doesn’t know whether the season-ending torn triceps tendon he suffered in Sunday’s 12-9 overtime loss to the Tennessee Titans will cause him to close the book on his playing days."
NFL news:
Why the Atlanta Falcons are in trouble (ESPN)
"On a Sunday that seemed to rain every single kind of bad game from the sky, the rematch of a Super Bowl classic turned out to be anticlimactic. The Atlanta Falcons were unable to exact any revenge on the New England Patriots in a 23-7 loss Sunday night, going down 17-0 at halftime before a late touchdown kept them from becoming the fourth team to be shut out in Week 7. Atlanta fans who remarked after Super Bowl LI that they would have rather been stomped than have blown a huge lead got to see what the former might have been like amid an eerie fog in Foxborough, Massachusetts."
Cincinnati’s Vontaze Burfict avoids suspension for kick (cincinnati.com)
"On the very first snap of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 29-14 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday at Heinz Field, Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict found himself caught in controversy yet again."
Another week, another poor outing by Washington’s receivers (Washington Post)
"With each passing week, the Washington Redskins’ biggest conundrum only seems to get trickier to solve. They have the league’s sixth-ranked passing offense, and a quarterback who’s topped 300 yards in three of his six games this season. Yet the team’s receiving corps has struggled to make any sort of impact. In fact, only once this season has a wide receiver led the team in receiving — way back in Week 1."