Quinn's First Performance Fulfills Expectations

As a Cleveland native and lifelong Browns fan, I was jumping up and down when my team moved up to draft Brady. For those of you who share my excitement, here is a quick summary of Quinn's first showing in the NFL:

With the crowd at Cleveland Browns stadium chanting his name, Brady took the field with roughly 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter. The Browns were down 23 to 7, and Quinn marched straight down the field, completing his first 5 passes and 6/7 overall en rout to the end zone for a touchdown. The drive was somewhat soured by a failed two point conversion in which Quinn threw slightly behind running back Chris Barclay, making it too difficult to haul in the pass. In his next series, with no timeouts and 2:10 remaining, Quinn again marched down the field for a score. Overall, Quinn completed 13/20 passes (13/16 when you discount the 4 spikes) for 155 yards and two touchdowns.


In a post game interview, Quinn said that it was a nice to be back on the field again, joking that he "was starting to get writers cramp from holding the clip board so much." However, he quickly became serious when critiquing his performance, scolding himself for the "terrible" throw on the two point conversion that might have given the Browns a chance to tie the game. Brady was also quick to add that he was not facing a difficult Lions defensive package unit, as Detroit elected to play soft prevent defense in the fourth quarter, opening up easy check down passes that Quinn capitalized on. In closing, Quinn said that he thought he saw the field better, but still needs to work on his timing and fundamentals.

Links to videos of both of Quinn's touchdown passes as well as the post game interview can be seen here.

My take: Its gonna be another long season for my brownies. The first team offense looked like it had never played together; my personal favorite moment was when Derek Anderson called a timeout to avoid a delay of game and somehow managed to get a delay of game coming out of the timeout. You get the idea... Even if Brady does as well against 1st team defenses as he did against the Lions scrubs, the rest of the offense isn't playing well as a team yet. On the bright side, there will still be enough time to light a couple candles at the Grotto for the development of the offense before the season opens against Pittsburgh.