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and to think that the almighty (according to Tribe Time's infinite football wisdom) Colt McCoy couldn't beat him out for the position.

Weeden may suck right now, but he has far more potential for improvement than Colt. Weeden has the physical abilities to play the position, whereas Colt is a noodle-armed backup caliber player. Weeden can at least throw the ball deeper than five yards at a time; most of his misses today were actually massive overthrows, so the dude has the arm strength. We'll just have to see if he can put it all together over the course of the season. Also, to be fair, his receivers are very young and they dropped a lot of catchable balls and the o-line was awful at creating holes, which made the running game pretty much useless. Still, this loss is mostly Weeden's fault.