Speechless after Sunday

Went up to the Browns game on Sunday with Freddie. Wow. I'm speechless on the debacle that occurred.

To summarize, Brady threw 2 interceptions in 3 quarters - one on the 10 yard line on a slant to Edwards; it's not clear if Edwards went full out and cut off the DB in time, causing the interception. After that, Romeo pulled Quinn and replaced him with Derek. Afterwards, he said he wanted to create a "spark" with the QB change.

It didn't work. Derek was 5-14 for 53 yards with an INT of his own.

Brady was clearly not happy with the benching. He mumbled something about "I didn't know I was on such a short leash". And why should he? Look at the leash Romeo gave Anderson this season.

The coach has one big role description - don't divide the locker room and be inconcsisntent. That's unfortunately what he is doing here. Look, the decision to bench Brady to provide a "spark" to win a game you had to have - that decision , in isolation, can be defended.

But - this season ended weeks ago with losses against Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington. If Romeo wanted to provide a spark:
- why not put Brady in when we scored 0 points vs. Pittsburgh in a key week 2 game?
- why not put Brady in after Anderson threw 2 second half interceptions in the 1st Baltimore game?
- why not put Brady in after 3 horrible quarters of football in the Washington game?
- and why not, when you are 3-4, put Brady in when your offense had 5 consecutive 3 and outs against Baltimore in the 2nd half?

And that's not to mention Braylon Edwards. Why aren't we benching him? Or our linebackers? Or our DBs?

The double standard here - leaving us to suffer with Derek for 8 weeks, yet pulling Brady after 2 3/4 games - is astounding. It is uncalled for - and now it can harm the long term development of Quinn.

Once he made the deicision to go to Brady, you had to leave him in and get him experience. You can't pull him at the first sign of a bad performance - you have to take the growing pains.

He needed to be fired yesterday; he wasn't. I expect the odds are 100-1 against him returning for a fifth season with the Browns in 2009.