Browns QB Darrick Anderson. Or is it Derek?
For all the talk recently about Pro Bowl quarterback Derek Anderson, you’d think he’s closer to being the best gas station attendant in all of Scappoose, Oregon, than an NFL-caliber starter. Cleveland fans — enamored by Brady Quinn’s quasi-mannish good looks and 16 snaps in a regular season game – seem determined to jettison the District Attorney for the Notre Dame darling.
A small info-graphic in this morning’s Plain Dealer sports page helps make DA’s case. …
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2008.
Brady Quinn says “Derrick? Uh-oh,I think I smell fruit”.
JESUS; I can’t wait until this guy is gone. I’m so tired of hearing about Derek Anderson.
Should the Cleveland Browns bet the farm on Quinn and ignore the Real Thing that is Anderson, they will deserve another decade of mind-numbing mediocrity as the team and the city stares in the rear-view mirror at what might have been.
There are lots of NFL teams slobbering for a QB of Anderson’s caliber (think the Bears, Lions, Falcons, Ravens; to name but a few wouldn’t JUMP at the chance to sign a guy who has proven himself in the NFL and has nothing but upside?).
It would be nothing but insanity or utter incompetence that would compel a team to bypass the obvious for the unknown of having a Notre Dame QB take over all because Notre Dame is, some would think, sexier than Scappose and Oregon State University.