After the Thursday night loss to the Broncos, Browns players were obviously upset. They're on a horrendous team that made a pretty gutsy decision to bring Brady Quinn in, who actually looked fairly decent, but still lost the game to a Broncos team falling quickly into mediocrity.Two players, Jamal Lewis and Josh Cribbs, said after the game that they felt a few of the Browns quit on the team even though, you know, they only lost by four points and had a chance to come back in the final minutes until Kellen Winslow did his best Braylon Edwards impression.
Well, Romeo Crennel would like all of you to know that his team does not quit. That is two "quits" in this story so far, get ready for a whole lot more.
"It seems like the word 'quit' has taken a life of its own and grown a little bit bigger and now the Browns are quitters and coach has lost control of the team and there's division in the locker room, and that's not the case," Crennel said. "These guys are going to play and play together. Whether we play good enough remains to be seen.
"You don't quit if you have the ball at the end of the game with a chance to win If you get beat 63-3, then I think you can say your guys quit. Thursday night, guys did not quit. Thursday night, guys didn't play as smart as they needed to play in critical situations, I agree there. But that can be said about other games in the course of the year, which we've been in most of them."
So, if nobody really thought anybody quit, and if Crennel, in his infinite wisdom, saw no quitting, what in the world were Cribbs and Lewis talking about?
Ohhhhh. They didn't mean quit. They probably meant "gave up" or "bowed out" or even "abdicated." But quit, those guys didn't mean to say that. Hahaha, this is all a big misunderstanding. Keep moving folks, nothing to see here.Crennel said that he talked to Lewis and Cribbs and neither player said he saw players quit. "They said they wished they had worked around (using the word)," Crennel said.
