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GM appears in public, talks Tebow
At the Cleveland Sports Awards (don’t laugh) tonight, Associated Press reporter Tom Withers caught up with new Browns GM Tom Heckert, who had more to say about Florida quarterback Tim Tebow than he did about Brady Quinn or Derek Anderson.
Overall, he told Withers, “We have probably more talent than I originally thought as an outsider looking in. Plus, you throw in the draft picks (Cleveland has 11) and we have some money to do something in free agency if there’s somebody available, so I think we have a chance to be a better football team.”
If you were waiting for some proclamation on the quarterback situation from Heckert, none was forthcoming. Quinn and Anderson both remain on the roster. Both are thought to have underachieved.
“It’s probably a little too early to say on both of them,” Heckert told Withers. “It’s a difficult decision and we have to get together and we have not made any decisions on anybody.
“That’s going to be something that’s going to happen down the road. They both have talent, there’s no doubt about it. They both played well at times and we’ll have to wait and see what happens.”
Tebow to the Browns? Maybe not, but Heckert seems to think the Heisman Trophy winner can play quarterback in the NFL.
“Now, where he goes, and how well he plays, that’s the question,” Heckert told the AP. “Everything besides actually playing the position, he’s got it all. He’s everything you want, the greatest kid in the world.
“People can knock him all they want, but he won a ton of games. And they didn’t just run the ball. He threw the ball and threw the ball well.
“It’s tough to knock a kid like that, but to say he’s going to be a franchise quarterback, that’s going to be a big decision for whoever takes him.”
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By Homerdawg
February 5, 2010 1:56 PM | Link to this
The last time the Cleveland Browns had an Inspirational Quarterback Paul Brown was the Coach and Otto Graham was the Man…Amen