Dilfer On Board!!!

The Browns have essentially traded Gerard Warren for Trent Dilfer. My opinion: it's awesome!

A week or two ago I didn't even think Dilfer was an option. But the guy is EXACTLY the type of QB I've been hoping the Browns would go after, and I couldn't be happier -- it's 11PM Saturday night, the wife and baby have gone off to bed, and here I am in the basement celebrating the Browns new QB and cracking open another Burning River. Ah, the life of a 30-year old Browns fan in 2005.

Anyway, I think the Dilfer signing makes it official -- the Browns are going to be a real freaking football team in 2005. No more drafting a fancy highly touted rookie that winds up doing nothing. No more BS from the front office. No more expectations that stretch the bounds of reality. Nope, these Browns are being rebuilt from the ground up the way they have desperately needed to be -- signing offensive guards and cornerbacks and veteran quarterbacks. I really could not be happier with the direction things have been going and have more and more faith that Phil Savage and Romeo Crennel are the right guys to lead this team.

One other note -- if you read Savage's press conference from the other day he said something about backup QBs Luke McCown and Josh Harris that was very illuminating. He said something like, "those guys have a great chance to be solid #2 guys in this leauge, and that isn't too bad." THAT is what a GM should say. Compare that with the rhetoric spouted from Butch Davis and Terry Robiskie -- they'd being saying stuff like, "these guys could be great QBs in this league." No, Savage is smarter than that; he knows that 1) having a job in the NFL is "not bad," and 2) the key to any successful organization, even (or respecially) one made up of "professionals," is for everyone to keep striving to be better. Besides, it's the truth that a guy like McCown is not even yet cut out for second string. And if Savage's comments ruffle a few feathers then so be it -- I hope McCown or Harris prove him wrong.