And it appears Ohio State coach Urban Meyer also has gone against the fans’ wishes in keeping quarterback Cardale Jones as the starter for Saturday’s game against Western Michigan.
If the results of a recent unscientific cleveland.com poll are an indication, Jones, who won the national championship for the Buckeyes mere months ago, might get booed when he next sets foot on the Ohio Stadium turf.
As of late Thursday, a total of 1,382 votes had been registered in response to the quarterback question, and 81.6 percent of those (1,125) favored backup J.T. Barrett taking over the job. Jones had received 255 votes, an underwhelming 18.4 percent.
There was one write-in vote for Braxton Miller in the comments section.
What does this mean? Not much other than to reaffirm the old adage about the backup quarterback always being the most popular guy in town.
I would have voted for Barrett, too, although I think OSU’s problems on offense run a little deeper than who’s triggering it. For one, I think it’s rather obvious the Buckeyes miss former offensive coordinator Tom Herman, now the head coach at Houston.
And they desperately miss the speedy Devin Smith, now with the New York Jets, who could stretch the field and run under Jones’ rainbows.
What good is it to have a quarterback with that kind of arm if nobody can get deep consistently?
Browns running out of legends to honor
When they first hatched the idea of celebrating cherished alumni from their glorious past, it was as if the Browns turned on a faucet.
In the inaugural class of 2001, in addition to all the Hall of Famers (Otto Graham, Dante Lavelli, Jim Brown, etc.), five others were inducted into the Legends program: Gene Hickerson, Bernie Kosar, Michael Dean Perry, Greg Pruitt and Ray Renfro.
From 2002 through 2008 there were never fewer than three honorees. Most years there were four.
The stampede has slowed to a crawl.
Since 2010, when offensive linemen Cody Risien and John Wooten were chosen, it’s been a two-man class each year.
Linebacker Don Colo and defensive tackle Bob Golic were selected this year and will be honored at Sunday's game. Both are deserving.
Question now becomes, who’s left to honor who’s not still playing? They’ve been so bad for so long, the well is dry. Except for Josh Cribbs, all the obvious candidates would seem to be off the board. Are we going to call Tim Couch a legend? Daylon McCutcheon?
The next few years should be interesting.
Does God really care who wins a football game?
After leading the Packers past the Seahawks on Sunday, quarterback Aaron Rodgers jabbed at Seattle counterpart Russell Wilson in his postgame remarks, saying God had been a Packers fan that night.
It was in response to Wilson crediting God for helping the Seahawks beat the Packers in the playoffs last season.
So, naturally, someone repeated Rodgers’ comments to Wilson, who tried to clarify what he meant initially.
My question is: If God really does care about the outcome of football games, what’s he have against the Browns?
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