Unless he’s traded to Tennessee or Pittsburgh before kickoff on Thursday, Brandon Weeden has played his last game as a 28-year-old rookie quarterback.  I’m not sure if everyone was aware that the Browns rookie starting quarterback was 28 years-old, but Dan Dierdorf may have brought it up once or twice during the broadcast of the Browns 41-27 defeat in New Jersey on Sunday.  Fortunately, Weeden’s age will increment by one next Sunday, so he will no longer be the 28-year-old rookie quarterback the day the Browns play their next game at home against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Let’s not pick on Dierdorf too much for assaulting Weeden’s age since his counterpart in color analysis, Matt Millen was putting an exclamation point on Weeden’s 28 years over 11 months ago.  You can’t really fault these guys too much for having fun; they hadn’t had an old man’s age to assault since Chris Weinke was a 29-year-old rookie for the Carolina Panthers in 2001.  Weinke made it easy on himself though; he won his first game as an NFL rookie, and never carried that 0-fer burden.  Of course, that was Carolina’s lone victory of the 2001 season, and there’s still hope for Brandon Weeden to win multiple games as a rookie, but the ship has now sailed on him getting a victory as a 28-year-old rookie.

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How quickly can an NFL game slip away from you?

How fast can you go from looking at a 10 or 14 point lead to being down 10?

19 plays.  Or 4 minutes.

Really, it turned on one play.  One incredibly massacred play.  With a young, not-ready-to-believe team, it just takes one play to destroy their spirit and release and avalanche of suck.

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Useless nuggets of information from Sunday's Browns game that you can certainly live without…

FROM CHAMP TO CHUMP: Sunday brought to an end the Browns’ modest three-season winning streak against the defending Super Bowl champion. After beating the Saints in 2010, Steelers in 2009, and Giants in 2008, the Browns’ record in games against the defending Super Bowl champ now stands at 10-18.

LIT UP: This was the most points the Browns had allowed in a game since giving up 41 to Pittsburgh in the 2010 finale. It was the most total yardage the Browns had allowed since surrendering a whopping 543 to Pittsburgh in October of 2009.

AWESOME DAWSON: Phil Dawson has now made 16 consecutive field-goal attempts. His last miss was a 55-yard attempt in Cincinnati last season. He had a streak of 17 straight snapped last October.

THE DEATH OF A GREAT RIVALRY: After playing 41 times in the Browns’ first 20 years in the NFL, the Browns and Giants have only met nine times in the 42 years since the AFL/NFL merger in 1970.

THE RETURN OF CRIBBS: Josh Cribbs’ 74-yard kickoff return was his longest since his 98-yard touchdown against Pittsburgh in 2009. He’s now averaging 31.2 yards per kick return for the season, on pace to be the best clip of his career.

THE SKID CONTINUES: The Browns have now lost 11 straight games and 14 of their last 15, matching the team record of 11 set in 1974/1975.

NOT-SO-NARROW DEFEAT: This was the Browns’ largest margin of defeat in eight games, since they’d lost to Baltimore by an identical 14 points last December.

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The Indians have their manager, the Browns have their 5th loss of the season (which would be okay if we weren't through just five weeks of the season) and the Buckeyes have announced to the college football world that their "Three yards and a cloud of dust" offensive philosophy is as dead as Woody Hayes himself. Only one of these things is surprising. 

It's The Weekend Wrap.

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