kbleck said:
Pretty sure Cleveland will sign him but would love to see him in Minnesota. Much better O Line and a real run threat.
Joe Thomas, rookie OLT in the Pro Bowl. Eric Stienback, played lights out last year. Hank Fraly is playing solid and made the Pro Bowl when he played for the Iggles. Ryan Tucker has been solid. Per, Vikings REAL run threat hinting the Browns lack of running game. Jamal Lewis ran for most yards by ANY Cleveland Brown not named Jim Brown in 07 and he didn't play all year long. He improved when his health improved and teams began game planning to stop the Browns passing game, i.e., Derrick Anderson and co which opened things up for him. He never had that in Baltimore.
But check out that Viking running game again and specifically uber rookie RB AP who ran for less than 150 COMBINED in his last four games of last year when teams discounted the Vikings QB and keyed on AP. The lack of any QB threat lead to AP's injury and the stacked boxes he faced down the stretch. If the Vikes don't do anything at QB then who knows what they will get out of AP, or Sidney Rice, or the rest of that offense for that matter.
If the Browns can't sign DA then it wouldn't shock me to see KC or Chicago or even Altlanta make a play for him and I would imagine Tampa Bay would love to get their hands on him for a late first round pick.
Anderson, Winslow join Cleveland Browns contingent in the Pro Bowl
The last Browns quarterback named to the Pro Bowl was Bernie Kosar after the 1987 season ...
Anderson was 10-5 as a starter and completed 298-of-527 passes for 3,787 yards, with 29 touchdowns, 19 interceptions and an 82.5 quarterback rating. He finished the season tied for second in franchise history with 29 passing touchdowns, fifth in attempts (527), fifth in passing yards (3,787) and sixth in completions (298).
Similarity index for young QBs. Go to the link for the full story.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=467
Similarity Scores for New 2007 Quarterbacks
Posted by JKL on Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Several new quarterbacks started for the first time in 2007. Derek Anderson, ...
... examine the new 2007 quarterbacks to see what history says about their futures. ...
... Here, we will take a look at all the quarterbacks who have played since 1978, to find the most comparable seasons for each of these new quarterbacks.
... The similarity lists hint at which underlying performance stats are most important for predicting future performance. If you were to guess before seeing the lists, what do you think is most important? One of the categories has, from what I am seeing, almost no predictive value, once you know how the player performed in the other categories.
That category is interception %. A young quarterback with an above average interception % who performs reasonably well in other areas is not necessarily a bad thing for the future. Above average performances in touchdown %, completion % or yards per attempt seem to be positive indicators; a poor performance in these categories is not a good sign...
DEREK ANDERSON [AGE 24, 527 ATT, 56.5% COMP, 7.2 YPA, 5.5% TD, 3.6% INT]
player year age sim score
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1 Dan Marino 1985 24 852
2 Drew Bledsoe 1997 25 718
3 Randall Cunningham 1987 24 701+
4 Aaron Brooks 2001 25 674
5 Jim Everett 1988 25 672
6 John Elway 1984 24 668+
7 Michael Vick 2004 24 661
8 Jim Zorn 1979 26 657
9 Don Majkowski 1989 25 650
10 Eli Manning 2005 24 635+
11 Jeff Blake 1995 25 634
12 Timm Rosenbach 1990 24 632+
13 Jake Plummer 1998 24 609+
14 Chris Miller 1990 25 606
15 Peyton Manning 2000 24 603
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... Anderson is 4th all time for td’s in a single season by a player age 24 or under, trailing only seasons from Marino, Manning and Culpepper. The only others to throw even 25 td passes in a season by age 24 are Esiason, Namath, and Bledsoe.
6'6, 230 lbs, rocket arm, second highest single season TD numbers and ten wins in only 15 starts, Pro Bowler, and the fourth highest single season TD numbers in NFL history for a QB of his age. The similarity study suggests a very high ceiling for Dereck Anderson.