Just a few days after former Cleveland Browns great Bernie Kosar ripped the team’s development of quarterbacks, former Brown Tim Couch concurred and echoed Kosar.
The Cleveland Browns can afford to be patient with rookie Johnny Manziel, but his debut already has fans nervous about the future of the quarterback position. Again. This is nothing new for the franchise and former great Bernie Kosar ripped the franchise for failing to create an environment that fosters success for new quarterbacks. A few days later, former Browns QB Tim Couch echoed much of what Kosar said.
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“I thought everything he said was right,” Couch said, per ESPN. “It’s been a long 15 years of watching the same thing repeat itself over and over. The biggest that frustrates me is the lack of commitment and loyalty to let a coach see it out and a quarterback play it out.”
You mean, annually firing your head coach isn’t a great way to establish continuity for a young quarterback? Not according to Couch or Kosar.
Kosar scorched his former team, telling ESPN, “They don’t know how to lead and organize and set a culture for doing what you have to do to play winning NFL football.”
Couch and Kosar had similar messages: don’t blame the quarterback when the rest of the team and the organization are a mess.
“This is just repeating the same process of the last 15 years, like Bernie said. Whether it was me, Kelly or on and on and on, the finger keeps being pointed at the quarterback. It’s the team. Build a team and then worry about the quarterback.”
The Browns will have an extra first round pick in the 2015 NFL draft around which they can hopefully build a team for Manziel or for the next quarterback to roll through town. Whether or not that will be enough will depend on their body of work this summer.
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