Romeo, start Quinn!

People, is it not time to put Brady Quinn on the field? Don't we all pretty much agree that Derek Anderson is a solid "back-up" quarterback? Hasn't he been inconsistent enough? If we're going to see rookie mistakes, let's see them from the rookie, huh?

The Cleveland Browns have two creampuffs coming up in the schedule. Miami and St. Louis are consensus 31 and 32 in the power rankings, respectively. BUT, after that we've got Seattle and then travel to Pittsburgh and the Ravens, our two biggest and most hated rivals.

When are we going to see what Quinn can do in a real game? Wouldn't it be nice to have him game-tested so he can be an option at Pittsburgh and Baltimore? If it's me, I'd give DA the first half at Miami so he can work out some of his obvious kinks, and then Quinn gets second half and ALL of the Rams. Otherwise, we've got another gun in the cabinet but we don't know if it's loaded.

As to the assertion that Quinn is just "not ready," the boy is not a hothouse flower. He had 46 starts at Notre Dame, and even though we SEC fans are not terribly inclined to put on our knee pads for the mighty Golden Domers, I know that there are only a handful of schools that EVERYBODY thinks of automatically when they think of football. Notre Dame is one of them, if not THE one. The pressure to succeed there, I'll lay odds, is more intense than the pressure to succeed in Cleveland, and he withstood that pressure as an 18-year-old freshman. He's a grown man now.

Besides that, look at him? Ain't he pretty?