Don't let the door hit you . . . 

One of them must go.

The sooner, the better.

The Browns cannot keep Colt McCoy and Seneca Wallace on the same roster. If nothing else, it would foment an untenable situation.

The Browns’ backup quarterbacks cannot coexist behind Brandon Weeden for any number of reasons, not the least of which is at least one of them does not believe he should be a backup.

Wallace doesn’t mind being No. 2 behind Weeden. It’s a position with which he is thoroughly familiar. After all, he’s been a backup his entire career.

McCoy, on the other hand, has never been a backup unless you include the first half of his rookie season when he sat behind Jake Delhomme before the veteran got hurt halfway through the campaign.

Tom Heckert Jr. and Pat Shurmur are messing with the minds of McCoy and Wallace, although Wallace knows he has no chance of starting. McCoy believes otherwise.

That mind-set is typical of the extremely confident young man from the University of Texas, who honestly thinks he has a great shot at the starting job.

And that’s where Heckert and Shurmur, particularly the latter, are playing with two sticks of dynamite. Wallace doesn’t mind clip boarding behind Weeden. McCoy does.

That’s a problem. A very big and potentially dangerous problem.

Maybe it’s not in his nature, but McCoy might sulk when it becomes glaringly apparent Weeden is the top guy and nothing he does is going to change that. Sitting behind Delhomme is one thing. Sitting behind someone who has never thrown a pass as a professional is entirely different.

We know Wallace, who balks at the notion that he'd be No. 3 if the club kept all their quarterbacks, can handle being No 2. We don’t know how – or if  – McCoy can handle it.

Someone must go before training camp begins. Not when training camp begins. Too much can fester between now and then. It has to happen sometime in the next month.

Heckert and Shurmur can blather all day long about conducting a fair competition for the starting quarterback job, but their words fall on increasingly deaf ears. It’s not fair and they know it.

The guess here is they want to move McCoy, but have no takers. Who wants a relatively small, weak-armed quarterback who can’t even make it with the Cleveland Browns? That’s a tough sell.

Teams that have even a minuscule amount of desire for such a commodity will wait until the Browns no longer have a choice other than to place him on waivers. And that’s when you’ll see some takers.

It certainly won’t be Wallace. He’s golden because he knows the system too well. And his connection with Mike Holmgren works heavily in his favor. Besides, he’s even shorter than McCoy.

If the Browns want to begin camp with a poisonous situation, they’ll hang on to both backups and continue pretending the competition is fair. If both are in camp late next month, that‘ll be yet another indication this front office doesn’t get it.

It’s also quite possible that sides in the quarterback issue will be taken among the players. Locker room mentality cannot be underestimated. The front office and coaches should know that.

If the Browns want to start off training camp in the right manner with the proper atmosphere, both physically and psychologically, they must make one very important move.

One of them must go.

The sooner, the better.

It’s time to stop playing games.