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Saturday, August 22, 2009
A touchdown would be nice
So, what should the Browns do tonight against the Detroit Lions in the event they finally score an offensive touchdown?
Surely some sort of celebration will be in order. A dance. A backflip. No use acting like they’ve been there before, because they haven’t. Not recently anyway. It’s been seven games and 75 possessions, after all, including the preseason opener.
For the record, the Browns last scored a touchdown on offense Nov. 17 at Buffalo when Jerome Harrison went 72 yards virtually untouched. That was also the night, of course, when General Manager Phil Savage just couldn’t turn the other cheek anymore and fired off a profane e-mail response to a fan while sitting on the team bus.
Savage is long gone, but Harrison remains. Maybe he can break the seven-game drought.
How will the fans react? Certainly a big cheer will be in order if someone hits paydirt.
“The fans pay good money to be in those seats and to watch us perform and towards the end of ‘08 we just weren’t getting it done,” guard Eric Steinbach told the Akron Beacon Journal.
Quarterback Brady Quinn, who handed the ball to Harrison last November, said the Browns have made scoring touchdowns a priority. It’s “obviously vital to us at this point. It’s one of our keys this week,” Quinn told the ABJ.
Then he said he’s not thinking about the drought, or what to do if he has a hand in breaking it.
“I’m horrible at dancing, so I’ll leave that to the guys who score the touchdown,” Quinn told the Akron paper. “If I would happen to run one in, I don’t know, I’ll think of something then.”
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Saturday morning film session in Oakwood
OAKWOOD — The high school football film session is a unique experience.
Take this morning, Aug. 22, for instance. Oakwood players and coaches gathered in coach Paul Stone’s math classroom to undergo the examination of film evidence from Friday night’s jamboree scrimmage at Minster High School.
In general, the sessions go something like this: Coaches using a mix of constructive criticism and comedy while controlling the rewinding and playback of the previous night’s game. The players squirm while watching the uncomfortable squiggly lines that signify a rewind and then the grinding, slow-motion replay that uncovers mistakes that might have been overlooked in real time. Coaches point out miscues and dole out praise much more conservatively.
With six days left before facing Versailles in Week 1, Stone gathered 23 players and six coaches to watch the 3-foot square screen while holding a gap wedge in one hand a laser pointer in the other. A sampling of some comments:
— (After one play he particularly didn’t like) “This is gonna be one of those years when the other team makes a highlight tape at the end of the year and we’re in a lot of those videos.”
— “If you get yelled at, you can be immature and say, ‘Woe is me,’ or you can learn from it.”
— “Films don’t lie.”
— A player raises his hand to ask a question and mentions he called “Crash” during one play. Stone looks confused. “OK, that’s not good when you use a term that the head coach doesn’t know.”
— (After watching an opposing player, No. 42, make several tackles against an Oakwood player) “Do you have a girlfriend? Well, 42 is your new girlfriend, he apparently liked you a ton.”
— (To one player) “If you had a senior and a sophomore, equal ability, who would you play?”
The answer: “I don’t know.”
“You’re a senior, right? You wanna say senior. Well, guess what. That might not be the answer.”
Teams all over the Miami Valley are going through similar experiences this morning as coaches study the scrimmage tape to determine, among other things, who their personnel will be starting Friday night, who will be playing for the varsity team and who will gain more experience on junior varsity games on Saturday mornings.
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