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Cleveland Browns rumor: Shaun Smith sacks Brady Quinn in the locker room?
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It was reported last night by play-by-play radio voice of the Cleveland Browns Jim Donovan, also of WKYC-TV Channel 3, that there is a story circulating in the locker room that defensive lineman Shaun Smith hit quarterback Brady Quinn. It is still unclear if the hit was a sucker punch or with a weight. Many media sources in town are trying to track down the full story. The story sounds like more than a rumor since Donovan has now mentioned it.
If the report is true, Smith must go immediately! This kind of behavior would be coming from a player whose performance on the field is more on and off than most people’s light switches in their bathrooms. No team’s players, whether superstars or not, and Smith is far from a superstar – for that matter, he’s not in any galaxy with any stars unless you want to count the injury list – can start physically attacking another player, period!
It must be noted that Smith was rumored to be the supposedly unnamed player who quit on the Browns in their loss against the Denver Broncos that Jamal Lewis and Joshua Cribbs were talking about. Smith has denied that allegation.
This story comes on the heels of yet another Browns loss and totally inept performance by the offense in a 14-0 shutout by the Bengals in Cleveland Browns Stadium before a sparse crowd on an extremely frigid Sunday afternoon. The shutout brought the Browns home season to a close at 1-7 and improved the stalwart Bengals road record to 1-7. The Browns haven’t scored an offensive touchdown in 20 quarters, including the last three home games. That scoreless streak will extend to 24 quarters next Sunday in Pittsburgh.
The lone bright spot was that Lewis gained 76 yards and became the 24th player in NFL history to gain 10,000 yards in his career. Oh yes, another positive note from yesterday’s game -- Braylon Edwards was having fun again yesterday, running routes and jibber-jabbbering his way to four catches and 35 yards.
This painful season will mercifully come to an end next Sunday in Pittsburgh where the Browns will be shut out again. Fortunately, the Steelers have nothing to play for next week and will probably pull their starters in the second half, if not earlier, depending how bad the beating is in the first half. That might give Lewis a chance to rush for 92 yards next Sunday to reach the 1,000-yard mark for the second consecutive year.
Following next week’s loss, major changes will be coming to the Browns. Chiefly among those will be the firing of Romeo Crennel, if not general manager Phil Savage as well.
But if the rumor about Shaun Smith physically attacking Quinn is true, then Savage needs to make one more personnel move before he departs. Give Smith his walking papers and make sure the back door hits him in the rear end on his way out of Cleveland.
I don’t know how far Smith will get, though. Using his play on the field as a guide, I would say his range of movement is about the width of the football.
For more on the Browns, please check out our Browns Examiner Aaron Calafato.
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