This Week’s Pick
Posted by lewdubuque on October 27, 2007
Bill Simmons, the Sports Guy, over at ESPN.com predicts the Browns will win on Sunday and adds an interesting analysis of Derek Anderson to boot.
Everyone spent the past two weeks saying, “Lemme tell you something, Derek Anderson is a pretty good QB,” and “The Browns could be faced with a Brees-Rivers scenario down the road here,” but nobody seems to be asking why Anderson couldn’t win Cleveland’s starting job two months ago over Charlie Frye — the same Chaz Frye who played one bad half in Week 1 and quickly became the third-string QB for the Seahawks.
Well, what the hell happened to Anderson in July and August? How could he not beat out Chaz Frye? Was he nervous? Did he not get enough reps? Did Romeo Crennel just completely botch that decision? Or did Anderson just play three good games against two horrendous defenses (Miami and Cincy) and one overrated defense (Baltimore)? I actually like Anderson and don’t think he’s pulling a 2002 Kelly Holcomb on us, but he needs to light up the Rams if we’re supposed to believe this has the makings of Brees-Rivers Part II.
