Post-game reviews; Browns lose more than a game

Quickly, to update my earlier piece on the media hype of the  Browns' QB crisis:

The reviews of the Monday night snore were distinctly  flavored with the acidity of a lovers' quarrel.  The Beacon Journal headlined "QB hopefuls  don't impress''  and the story reaffirmed it  by describing  the historic performance  as "perhaps the biggest dud since the Y2K  Scare".

The Plain Dealer took a  meaningless  more humane course by calling for a reader poll on whether  Brian Hoyer or Johnny Middle-Finger Football Manziel should be the starter. (One fan proposed dressing Tim Tebow for the next game!  You can understand the desperation.)

But  shouldn't some of the red faces be shared by the media for the  electrified buildup of the QB gold rush that asked us each day which guy should start?  Unfortunately, the Browns  didn't play on Broadway Monday night, where bad reviews can close a show in an instant.  .

They are left, instead,  with Hoyer and Manziel, for better or worse and the show must go on.

The all-consuming hype for Browns QB's

Spent too much time over the week end besieged by the central drop-dead issue in Northern  Ohio:  Will Quarterbacks Brian Hoyer or Johnny Manziel start the Monday night exhibition game against the Washington Redskins? Well?

Having grown up in Western Pennsylvania with only a passing interest in Jim Brown or Otto Graham, I didn't intend to get sucked into the media hype over the Browns' decision.  But ever since a young man also named Johnny Football was inserted into the equation, I've had no choice.  I really believe the media planted a computer chip in my brain as I was fishing around on the internet for a Steelers score.

Quarterback controversies for the Browns, of course, are not new.  But they serve to rev up interest in the fans before they realize that the Monday night starter  may be meaningless when the real season begins.

Computer chip?  Why do things go haywire when I stand too close to the microwave?