Kontradiction
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Very few things are black and white. Reality is a gray place
Football is not. It’s usually very clear where the problem originated on the football field. In this case, poor quarterback play was to blame.
Fundamental question, why were the Browns terrible. You leap right in with both feet to blaming the quarterback. And in a shallow, overly simplistic sense, you're right, but the problem is it leaves some huge questions unanswered about why the quarterback failed.
It really doesn’t. The quarterback failed because he’s not, and has never been, a good quarterback.
I'm convinced the problems were far more fundamental and one of those problems is that the Browns rushed a quarterback onto the field who wasn't ready to go. Kizer failed because he was set up to fail, and the failure is not a major indictment of Kizer's talent because he should never have been put in that position in the first place.
No, you’re right. He should be a back-up at most.
I think he's got a lot more talent than he was able to display in the teamwide gongshow that was the Browns 0-16 season. You disagree because losses, which sounds to me like "I disagree because changing my mind is hard and I don't like looking past the surface of things."
Wins and losses are the #1 measure of a quarterback’s quality. Any good quarterback with a future in the league shows improvement as the season goes on, even if thrust in as a rookie before he’s “ready”. Kizer showed none of that, even when working with a receiving corps of Coleman and Gordon to end the season. He led the NFL in interceptions and got sacked 38 times mostly because he was holding onto the ball too long. That means he wasn’t seeing the field well and may have had a problem with reading defenses and going through his progressions. After the bye week, he threw 10 INTs to go with 8 touchdowns, 3 of which came against an inept Green Bay defense. Shall I go on?
As for changing my mind? I have no problem with it. I freely and often admit when I’m wrong, the most recent of which was me admitting that the Big Nickel, which I proposed using against Philly, was a bad idea in hindsight. In this instance, I think this is a case where the pot is calling the kettle black.