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McCoy eager
     I'm feeling better and better about Colt McCoy as a Brown. Much of it has to do with Holmgren and Mangini playing down the hype the day after the draft when they said he wouldn't even play in his first year. 
     It's hard for a rookie quarterback to learn and win in the NFL, especially on a team with a history of losing. Multiply that tenfold for a newly drafted quarterback in Cleveland, a town and team starved of a professional winner at the position since the late eighties and Bernie Kosar.
     Wednesday, Scott Petrak posted this story of McCoy's first shot during OTA's with the first team offense.
     The drive only engineered one first down, then fizzled, but the opportunity wasn't a waste. “It’s good to see what he’s going to look like operating with those guys,” Eric Mangini said.
     "The drive didn’t continue, but mechanically it looked fine."
     "“It was great,” McCoy said. “I got in the huddle, I was a little nervous. But once we got rolling, we got rolling," said McCoy.
     What stands out isn't the fact that he's excited to play, which is expected. It's that he hasn't said much since being drafted. McCoy has drifted around in the background with regard to the media. And in this town, that's not easy to do for a rookie quarterback seen as the future starter.
     But he seems poised and plodding, eager to be the starter, but not at all costs.
     “I can remember the first time I stepped in the huddle in spring ball after the five starting offensive linemen had just won a national championship and they had come back for their senior year and I was a freshman stepping in the huddle calling plays,” McCoy said. “I kinda had a little flashback just then.
     I'm getting the feeling McCoy is going to be a good quarterback in this league, and much of it has to do with his handling by the organiztion and the handling of the the expectations of the young player.