The Morning After: Miami

Browns 22, Dolphins 0
Record: 4-6

The chicken-or-egg question of the moment: Were the Browns that good Sunday, or were the Dolphins just that bad?
I'd vote for the latter.
We saw against Pittsburgh what a good team with workhorses can do to the Browns. The Dolphins, well, let's just say the herbs outnumbered the football players.
Sage Rosenfels looked like he belonged in Mama Leoni's spice cabinet instead of a Miami uniform yesterday. The Dolphins QB, making his second start, went 5-for-10 for 14 yards passing and two picks. He was so bad he was replaced midway through by Gus Frerotte, who was supposed to miss the game with a hand injury.
Reefer-head and decorated space cadet Ricky Williams managed a decent game, netting 83 yards on 13 rushes, but the one-time franchise rusher isn't even in the same league as Reuben Droughns anymore.
Droughns just might be a Pro Bowler this year. He chewed up the only strong point on the Dolphins roster (their defensive front) to the tune of 166 yards on 13 rushes.
This was the most decisive win for the Browns this season. Not only did they capture their first shutout since 2001, they completed the shutout despite coach Romeo Crennel rolling a potential hand grenade onto the field in the second quarter, benching Trent Dilfer for Charlie Frye.
Dilfer was angered, and with good reason. With the game still very much in question at 9-0, Crennel arbitrarily decided the final minutes of the second quarter was the right time for Frye to make his debut. Frye made 6-of-11 passes for 58 yards with a pick in stints in both halves, but it was the wrong time to put him in.
Start him, even as a game-time decision? Fine. Put him in to start the second half? Fine. Put him in late in the fourth quarter when the game is sealed? That's fine, too. But changing horses midstream is a bad idea.
Ask players who played for Butch Davis. Unpredictability is a bad trait in a coach. Coaches who rely on whims and flights of fancy lose their players' trust. Already, it seems Crennel has some mending to do with Dilfer, and Dilfer is one of the classiest professionals in the league.
Crennel had better be glad it was the Dolphins, and not the Ravens, on which he decided to pull his switcharoo. The ferocious Baltimore defense could have turned a 9-0 lead into a turnover-plagued 17-9 deficit in the bat of an eyelash.
But the Dolphins are a forgiving team. You can create a self-imposed quarterback controversy and still beat them comfortably. This had better not be a trend with Crennel, though.
Pick a QB. Make up your mind before the game. Stick with the QB you pick. If you don't, you are going to have a very unhappy football team and a bunch of losses.

Up next: at Minnesota, Sunday, 1 p.m. ET.