Daily Dawg Tags: Disappointed in DeShone Kizer

Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShone Kizer apologized for having a life outside of the facility, which is something he had no reason to do.

Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer has not been very good on the field this season.

In just about every significant category – completion percentage, yards per attempt, interceptions, quarterback rating – Kizer is at or near the bottom of NFL quarterbacks.

That is to be expected, to a certain extent, because he is a rookie quarterback that most likely should still be starting in college, not in the NFL.

But what has us really disappointed today about Kizer is that he gave in to the noise and the nonsense and apologized on Tuesday for having the audacity to go out with his teammates on a Friday night, according to clevelandbrowns.com:

"“I have learned that this is a distraction. We are sitting here talking about this. My teammates are coming up to me and asking me about this. There are so many cameras around here, it is going to be made a pretty big deal. With that, it is on me to make sure that from here that from here on out I am not a distraction and I am only an asset to this team, not a guy that is pulling away from the ultimate goal.”"

This was only a distraction in the sense that the pearl clutchers made it one. Kizer did nothing wrong and when you see the video “evidence” of his night on the town, viewable in the post at Deadspin, the notion that Kizer had to apologize for anything becomes even more absurd.

And to think that the season hasn’t even reached the midway point for the Browns.

Cleveland Browns news:

What are the Browns to do at left tackle?

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Browns: 3 takeaways on offense from Week 7 loss

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John Greco, Brian Hoyer can see comeback for Joe Thomas (ohio.com)

"When the close friends and former teammates of Browns left tackle Joe Thomas who are scattered across the NFL finished their games this past Sunday, they were devastated to discover the 10-time Pro Bowl selection had suffered a season-ending torn triceps tendon. John Greco received word of the injury when he picked up his cellphone in the visitor’s locker room at Lambeau Field, and Brian Hoyer saw a headline about Thomas’ historic streak of 10,363 consecutive snaps ending as he browsed for NFL news."

DeShone Kizer has a good chance to start vs. Vikings (cleveland.com)

"Perhaps a trip across the pond will do Browns rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer some good. He has a good chance of being announced as the starter Wednesday morning when Hue Jackson names his man for Sunday’s Vikings game in London, a league source told cleveland.com."

NFL news:

What’s next for Kirk Cousins and the Redskins? (ESPN)

"But to understand why the marriage between Washington and Cousins has always been an uneasy one, you need to understand the importance of that moment. It was a slight that planted a seed that sprouted into a belief. That belief, over time, hardened."

Mike Tomlin: Martavis Bryant not available via trade (NFL.com)

"The Pittsburgh Steelers continue to call Martavis Bryant’s bluff. The receiver told ESPN’s Josina Anderson he wanted out of Pittsburgh if the team isn’t going to use him. Coach Mike Tomlin, however, reiterated the team has no plans to trade Bryant."

Jared Goff is thriving with Les Snead, Sean McVay (SI.com)

"Les Snead is the rare NFL general manager with a bicycle mounted on a trainer in the middle of his office. And whereas Snead might view the velocipede as a vehicle on which to multitask, a more cynical observer could find a metaphor here for the GM’s tenure. Since arriving in 2012, none of the teams he has assembled have won more than seven games, despite constant roster churn—the NFL equivalent of pedaling furiously and not going anywhere. This season, though, the Rams are 5–2 and riding atop the NFC West (with the tougher half of their schedule approaching) because of a two-part plan that Snead started in the spring of ’16, hoping to catapult a team returning to Los Angeles from St. Louis, the franchise at once going big and going home."