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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
I dont disagree with any of that, but he had his chances to beat out Derick  Anderson and couldnt do it. |
Since Derek Anderson played for my alma mater, I watched a lot of the Browns back when he was with them. The plan Quinn's rookie year was to bring him along slowly behind Charlie Frye. Frye sucked so bad during the opening game of that year (2007) that they pulled him and DA came in and played fairly well.
The following week, the Browns traded Frye to Seattle (while Holmgren was coach there, BlackBob - nice QB guru there) and DA started the following game and threw for 328 yards and five touchdowns. It was his job the rest of the way. He threw for 29 tds and almost 4000 yards and the Brown finished 10-6. DA made the Pro Bowl the Cassel way (1st alternate).
After his excellent season, the Browns gave him a big contract, so there was no way he was going to be beat out by Quinn the next year. Unfortunately, DA (and a lot of the rest of the team) fell off a cliff that year. DA was pulled partway through the season, Quinn was put in and was promptly hurt and lost for the season. DA came back in and also was injured and lost for the season. Crennel got fired after the season.
The next year, Mangini came on board and spent most of the season playing QB hokey pokey, constantly pulling one QB for the other. They also had lost a lot of their offensive talent by then and neither QB had many weapons.
I'm not a Quinn fan but I don't see anyone that saw that cluster**** with the Browns and would objectively think that Quinn ever had the shot to develop that most first round QBs get normally.