I don't blame Hoyer for recent brown skidmark. He actually threw a pretty good ball, with some good strikes; but also had some bad breaks. Mallet threw into coverage all day and was very lucky. Seemed like Houston figured out to run power sweep right to the outside and keep going back fade to test left corner. Delayed blitzes confused browns o-line and gave jail break to hoyer; he's mobile - but when the middle of the line is comprised by a pulling defensive blitz - toast city. Looked like rerun bouncing a basketball up the middle on "what's happening." a.k.a. huge hole.
Houston came in better prepared for a game plan to attack hoyer and browns evidently did not see their weaknesses on tape to have plan. Didn't matter who the QB was, that left corner for brown needs help and can't cover mano-e-mano. Furthermore the defensive end gave up the outside easy for some gains and were slow to converge on quick outs outside.
That score was not as bad as the final indicated though. Didn't have cash riding, but personally feel like the browns got screwed by the refs as well, some real chimpy shat went down ever time they had a decent play (or so it seems).
Think Gordon will be nice for a backup initially, but think Hoyer is not the problem in Cleveland. When in doubt, blame art mow-dell.
(about 1/2 cent worth)