DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum I never realized how cool Jacoby Brissett was...

he's honestly one of my favorite Browns QBs

And truthfully he played pretty well last year

He really did. Without the 1:55 collapse vs the Jets, the missed 51 yard field goal vs San Diego, and the run defense vs Atlanta he would have handed the team off to Watson at 7-4.

Which would have put us in the playoffs, despite Watson's mediocre performance.

I always liked Brissett. I think it was a mistake to go with Watson last year.

THis isn;t meant as a slam to you, but the Watson comment made me think of this. Many in the media jumped on Watson for his performance after missing basically 1 3/4 seasons. It seems they expected him to be back in 2019 form after he played in about 3-4 games.

Fast forward to Joe Burrow's training camp foot injury and I heard one sports prognosticator say that with Burrow missing the pre-season, you can't expect him to be sharp until after a couple games. Just found it interesting,

Preaching to the choir, bro. Watson's performance last year was pretty much what I expected it to be. "Mediocre" was just a blunt assessment of what we watched. The people screaming that the rust should be gone after three games were just the background noise down the stretch-run of a craaazy season.

I find that an odd spin to the story. What most people I heard say was they expected to see steady progress from watson over the course of those six games. Something that final season ending game provided evidence that we did not see. That one was a stinker.

You shouldn’t make too much out of DW’s 2022 showing; rust, not in synch, not a lot of speed in the WR group. He looked unsure at times, which wasn’t surprising.

I don't make a lot out of what we saw last season in terms of watson. But I think it's logical to conclude that as the starts went on there should have been signs of measurable progress with additional starts. The rust should have lessened, the timing with his receivers should have gotten better with more reps and his throws should have gotten more accurate as time went on. I mean you can point to the speed of the WR's but even when they were open his throws often times didn't look good.

He's had this entire training camp to overcome some of those things so I hope what we saw last season isn't indicative of what we see coming out of the gate this year.

good point ... he actually got is in position to win 2-3 more games