Cleveland Browns (2008 Season)

[Buckeneye]

Originally Posted by Buckin' A

- Also stated that there will be no open competition for the QB job, that Anderson is the man in 08.

We'll see how that goes if Brady gets solid PT in pre-season.

[schwab]

After having read the last 8 pages or so in one sitting, I posit that absolutely no one here is actually good at predicting what is going to happen with the Browns. Links are good, and speculation is fun, just not very accurate (at all). Thanks for trying though fellers, and I look forward to scrolling through this thread more frequently in the future, I just had a computer situation arise that I couldn't help immediately. Therefore I have been getting leftovers, per se, for the last 3 weeks, and I finally got back on here to get updated.

You guys have no future in this business!

But I love what Savage is doing. I agree with Quinn, Williams, Rogers>1,2,3 round in 08 draft that was discussed...at least you know what you are going to get at camp this way... I am of the belief that right now in the NFL is the time and place to make a move, and the payoffs can reap huge benefits. We shall see.

And yes, I do believe that Cleveland takes home a 1st round draft pick this year. I just don't know how yet.

[Crashcup]

Originally Posted by Buckin' A

So the Browns didn't spend a [censored] load of money last year getting Lewis, Steinbach, Smith, Peak, or Thomas? They didn't go 10-6 this year and barely miss the playoff's? That isn't a huge improvement?

Congratulations...you now sound like the world's dumbest human being.

You don't have to get in a snit. Thank you very much for that "stupid" remark.

40 years and you're talking 1 day.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Anderson gets 3-year, $24 million contract

Saturday, March 1, 2008 3:21 AM
By James Walker


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

BEREA, Ohio -- Quarterback Derek Anderson didn't last one day as a restricted free agent.
The Cleveland Browns signed Anderson yesterday to a three-year,
$24 million contract, with $13 million guaranteed. Through incentives, the value could rise to as much as $26 million.
An agreement was reached about 5 a.m. yesterday. Anderson, who became a restricted free agent at midnight, said he always wanted to return to the Browns. Last season, Anderson became the starter in the second game and went 10-5, with the team barely missing the NFL playoffs.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

CPD

Browns trade for Rogers, Williams

Posted by Tony Grossi February 29, 2008 23:14PM

Categories: Browns
The Browns swung some heavy trades on Friday to add almost 700 pounds to their defensive line.
Shortly after formally confirming the trade of the club's second-round pick for Green Bay defensive lineman Corey Williams, General Manager Phil Savage was completing another trade for mammoth Detroit lineman Shaun Rogers.
The latter deal, hastily consummated after a proposed trade of Rogers to Cincinnati fell through, sends cornerback Leigh Bodden and the Browns' third-round pick to Detroit.
The Browns did not confirm the Rogers trade, but a Lions source did.
Rogers is listed as 6-4 and 340 pounds, but a weight gain of nearly 30 pounds last season landed him in the doghouse of Lions coach Rod Marinelli. Rogers had a career-high seven sacks and four forced fumbles in 2007, but the Lions did not want to pay the two-time Pro Bowler a $1 million roster bonus that was due today.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

CPD

Anderson earns keep and a starting role

Posted by Mary Kay Cabot February 29, 2008 23:16PM

Categories: Browns
Browns General Manager Phil Savage emphasized Friday night that the Browns signed quarterback Derek Anderson to a three-year contract to keep him and start him in 2008.
"We are not trading Derek in 2008 -- thank you very much!" Savage said after being probed about it repeatedly during a news conference. "We're going through 2008 with both quarterbacks."
Savage also stressed the Browns would not have signed Anderson to such a lucrative deal -- three years for at least $24 million, with $2 million more in incentives and $13.5 million to $14.5 million guaranteed -- without intending to start him.

"When you sign a contract like we did with Derek, I don't think there's going to be an open competition," Savage said. "I think we go in with Derek as the lead horse."

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

ABJ

Derek Anderson stays put
Browns also acquire defensive tackle Corey Williams
By Marla Ridenour
Beacon Journal sportswriter

Published on Saturday, Mar 01, 2008


BEREA: After a night heavy on negotiations and light on sleep, General Manager Phil Savage finally said what he should have said months ago.
''We are not trading Derek Anderson in 2008, thank you very much,'' Savage said Friday.
And what about Brady Quinn?
''No. We're going through 2008 with both quarterbacks,'' Savage said. ''We're going to have both quarterbacks as long as we can keep them, then we're going to pick one of them. The Cleveland Browns are going to be quarterbacked by one or the other, either Derek Anderson or Brady Quinn, for a long time.''

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

CPD

Cleveland Browns quarterback carousel is turning

by Tony Grossi Friday February 29, 2008, 10:58 AM


Do the Browns have a trade in the works for Derek Anderson?
That's the obvious question after reports that the quarterback agreed to terms this morning to a three-year deal.
Less than 12 hours earlier, Browns GM Phil Savage said he would not raise the club's offer of $20 million with $10 million in guarantees. Then the Columbus Dispatch reported the Browns upped the offer to about $24 million with $12 million in guarantees.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

CPD

Bill Livingston: Future still belongs to Quinn

Posted by Bill Livingston Plain Dealer Columnist February 29, 2008 23:07PM

Categories: Bill Livingston columns

The Browns re- signed Derek Anderson because they did not want to waste the nearly full season of starting experience he had. Anderson, however, made a hash of the season's second half, when he should have been building on his experience.

Anderson was a pleasant surprise who was supposed to baby-sit the quarterback position until Brady Quinn, his Subway sandwich commercial aside, was ready to be "kind of busy on Sundays."

Instead, in a league desperate for quarterbacking, Anderson reached the ESPN.com-bestowed status of "rising star." National analysts speculated that Anderson would receive a long-term, megamillions contract extension.

Those poor guys must not have cable. Otherwise, they would have seen the way Anderson played in the last eight games. After four games in the first eight with a quarterback rating above 100, after throwing 17 touchdown passes with nine interceptions in the first half of the season, Anderson's second half featured two games in the 50s, three in the 70s, nothing in triple figures, and 12 TDs to 10 picks.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

DDN

audible commentary
2 promising Browns QBs are better than none


By Greg Simms
Staff Writer

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Cleveland Browns starting quarterback Derek Anderson, 24, went for the gold when the free-agent period opened, and who can blame him? Well, I guess he did it twice.
First, as any good poker player would, the "Cleveland Kid" bluffed the Browns, saying he was going to test the free-agent market.
Second, just after midnight, Friday, Feb. 29, he became a restricted free agent for a few hours, then signed a three-year, $24 million contract with Cleveland that included $13 million in guarantees.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Link

Coach excited to keep Anderson

Steve King, Staff Writer
02.29.2008

When quarterbacks coach Rip Scherer left the team's training headquarters in the middle of the night -- or, as it were, the middle of the very early morning Friday -- after about a 20-hour day, he didn't know if he'd ever see his 2007 starter in a Browns uniform again.
But then sometime before he got to sleep, he got the news that Derek Anderson was going to re-sign with the club. It made him sleep easy.
Finally.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Link

Anderson: 'This is where I want to be'

Jeff Walcoff, Staff Writer
02.29.2008

He might've just signed a new multi-million dollar contract, but Derek Anderson appears to be the same old Derek Anderson.
When asked how he'll celebrate the signing of his new contract, he simply said he'd be playing golf with some friends and going to a friend's birthday party.
"Nothing crazy," he said.
During a conference call with the Cleveland media Friday night he was asked how it felt to be a millionaire.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Browns land DT Shaun Rogers from Lions
UPDATE: 11:31 PM, Friday, February 29, 2008

DETROIT (AP) ? The Detroit Lions traded Shaun Rogers to the Cleveland Browns instead of dealing him to the Cincinnati Bengals, a person familiar with the moves told The Associated Press.

The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity Friday night because the Lions and Browns were not commenting on the trade, said Detroit acquired cornerback Leigh Bodden and a third-round pick from Cleveland after the deal with Cincinnati fell through.

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[IronBuckI]

Apparently we've got a lot of confidence in the young guys at corner. I like what we've done the past two days on the DL, and if our young corners are the answer then this leaves one or two LB spots to fill, and we can take whoever the hell we want with our few remaining picks in the draft.

[tsteele316]

Originally Posted by Buckeneye

We'll see how that goes if Brady gets solid PT in pre-season.

savage wants both qb's on the roster in '08. i doubt they both will be in '09. This is insurance to get a better look at quinn and transition him into his role.

after this year, DA is very very tradable cap wise.
cleveland has quite a few good starters at most positions, that are vets. if they amass some draft picks, they can begin to add depth to positions that have been so thin for years.