Derek Anderson is really bad. Who knew? Oh ya, almost everybody who has ever watched him play. I know that he threw 29 touchdowns last year and was a Pro Bowl alternate. I know he has a cannon for an arm and ideal size for a quarterback, but he is not the answer.

The Browns paid Anderson $24 million over three years after last year's aberration, but NFL defenses have more than caught up with Mr. Can't-Throw-A-Slant. Anderson has thrown nine touchdowns and 14 interceptions over his last eight games after throwing 22 TDs and 11 INTs in the first 11 games of last season. Quarterbacks aren't supposed to regress after half a season.

This offseason, had another team signed Anderson to a similar deal to the one the Browns gave him, Cleveland would have received a first and a third round pick. Seriously? What could be better? As soon as I heard that, I began clamoring for something to be done. If I were Phil Savage, I would be begging other teams to sign Anderson. But other teams were too smart for that, and instead we paid him like a No. 1 quarterback so Brady Quinn could rot on the bench. But it's not like the Browns gave up last year's first round pick to get Quinn. Oh wait.

It was obvious to me in the second half of last season that Anderson was not the quarterback of the future for what could be a very potent offense. His reads are often poor, his accuracy is suspect, and he doesn't have that "it" factor that the great ones do. And to win a Super Bowl, you need a great quarterback most of the time. Legendary defenses can win you a title (Tampa Bay in 2002, Baltimore in 2000), but I wouldn't call the Browns defense legendary, or even good for that matter. I'd much rather take my chances on Quinn, a guy who ran a very effective pro-style offense in college. Quinn may not have the arm Anderson does, but accuracy is far more important than arm strength will ever be.

It's almost unfathomable to me that an organization would trade a first round pick to bring in a quarterback and then hand the job to a guy who got cut by the quarterback-rich Baltimore Ravens. Then I remembered that this was the Browns, and that any optimism about them is destined to be crushed by poor management, poor coaching, poor play, or in this case all three. This season is already over for the Brownies. The Steelers are a strong team, the Ravens' defense seems rejuvenated, and their schedule is beyond brutal. They haven't played a good game in this calendar year, making it seven straight (including preseason) stinkers.

To think that Romeo Crennel was nearly Coach of the Year last season is enough to make my brain attempt to jump out of my skull. The man doesn't do anything! At the very least, an NFL coach should be able to manage the clock, but he has failed MISERABLY at even that modest task. I can't get over how many times they cut to Crennel on the sidelines every game and he is standing there, with a headset that I'm sure isn't even on, looking dumbfounded and saying nothing.

Braylon Edwards has also been terrible. Many wide receivers don't have five drops in a season, and he had five in the first two games, simultaneously killing the buzz around his ascension to the league's elite and two of my three fantasy teams. The defense can't stop the run or the pass, but what else is new? On the plus side, Shaun Rogers is ridiculously good in the 5-10 plays he tries and has breath in his lungs. This team won too many weird and wacky games last season to have expected another 10-6 campaign. Too many factors have conspired against them, and they seem destined to be bottom feeders this year unless something drastic happens (paging Dr. Quinn). But hey, at least they have draft picks next year!

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