June 20, 2013

Browns Terminate the Contract of Derek Anderson

March 9, 2010 by 94 Comments

Not even 24 hours after trading for quarterback Seneca Wallace, the Browns have parted ways with former Pro Bowler Derek Anderson.

Anderson joined Cleveland via waivers from Baltimore in 2005 and spent the last five seasons with the Browns. He appeared in 39 games with 34 starts during that time and completed 587 of 1,109 passes for 7,083 yards with 46 touchdowns and 45 interceptions.

“I want to thank Derek for everything that he gave to the Cleveland Browns organization over the last five years,” said Browns Head Coach Eric Mangini. “He did everything we asked of him and it was a pleasure to coach such a competitive person. I want to wish him all the best in the future.”

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  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    BINGO saw this one comin’ a million miles away! I wondered why I couldn’t post, update was being done.

  • bigmoneymike

    Its about time!!!!!!!!!

  • razorzips

    Is Wallace an upgrade?

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com Craig Lyndall

    Pro Bowl ALTERNATE… I will keep typing that for the rest of time. I want a new category added to the whole Pro Bowl thing. When Tom Brady can’t make it to the game, his replacement doesn’t get the equal amount of honor.

    It is a one-man crusade. :-)

  • http://draftpick.deviantart.com Joe

    Wow to think what we could have got for him if we traded him after his pro bowl year. He’ll sign with Arizona within the next week. Wish would could have gotton something, anything for him though.

  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    @razorzips – No but I seriously doubt that’s why Wallace was brought in here. I thought and hope now with Anderson sent packing that Quinn gets his first real opportunity from day one to be the Browns starting QB. If he can’t hack it you have Wallace as a stop gap and next year you can look to address the position. Until then build the rest of the team.

    I’ll never understand what people saw in Anderson sort of reminds me of the Daniel Gibson fans with the Cavaliers.

  • MrCleaveland

    Adios, DA. For all his faults, he shocked the world and played a role in an extremely rare decent season for the Brownies. Now get outta here.

  • Brian

    Seneca Wallace??? Really???

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com Denny

    Oh look, a thing happened.

    I hope in 10 years somebody finds a Derek Anderson bear and blogs about it.

  • Eli

    Who brought the cake?

  • Chris

    I’m just glad I’ll never see him play another game in a Browns uniform ever again.

  • MattyFos

    And 80 percent of Browns fans rejoice. The other 20 percent yell “HE WAS A PRO-BOWLER”

  • bill-legarm

    The guy was terrible the last two seasons and probably should have been traded afterwords, but man, 2007 was a fun year. I’ll always appreciate D.A. at least a little bit for that.

  • stin4u

    Finally, I thought this day would never come. Now go take the Cardinals to the super bowl and make us all more bitter than we already are!

  • Hectorakacd

    Thank You, Jesus!

  • subadai

    Our long national nightmare has ended.

  • Chris

    HANG THE SUPER BOWL BANNER NOW.

  • MrCleaveland

    You guys who say that DA should have been traded after ’07 — that wouldn’t be a spectacular 20-20 hindsight second-guess now, would it?

    Get serious. If the Browns had traded him then, there would have been an uproar. Season tickets would have been cancelled. Fans would have staged protests. Dawgs would have howled. I doubt that anyone would have been praising any such trade.

  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    @MattyFos – that all you got? Again reminds me of that one playoff series Daniel Gibson had verse Detroit that all the Boobie lovers seem to have to mention when defending him.

    Wasn’t Braylon Edwards a Pro Bowler too, where’s his love? ;)

  • cninja

    was their a choir singing “hallelujah?” during the reading of this statement for anyone else or was it just me?

  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    MrCleveland I wanted him traded because I thought his ceiling was as high as it could get but I never dreamt his floor would give away at the same time. The guy is what I call a “meathead” at QB – all arm, no head.

  • cninja

    there*

  • MattyFos

    MrC- I was rooting for a DA trade after 07. I saw that DA was the product of K2, Edwards and Joe Juri. I knew Stallworth wouldnt live up to the money because he was almost a full foot shorter than Juri and DA doesnt have the accuracy to get the ball to smaller receivers…. So if by hindsight you mean ‘MattyFos’sight. Then I welcome the company to my party.

  • Scooter

    Does this mean we might be looking at Dan LeFevour?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udne9JTds5A TS T 2B Cavs Dude

    Making room for Troy Smith?

  • 5KMD

    #13

    I think you, like most DA apologists, forget how 2007 ended. Or the entire second half of that season. He had like 2 and a half good games that year.

    Choke in the second half against the steelers in pittsburgh with a 21-6 lead and….

    Uber choke second to last game against cincy with playoffs on the line. If I am QB in that game I hand the ball off 50 times and Browns win by 2 scores.

    That is what I’ll remember about 2007.

  • Team Brady

    OH MAN – MY FAVORITE PLAYER’S BEEN TRADED!

  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    @25 Yes…yes…that’s what this is all about…ugh!

  • http://shakesthesnowglobe.blogspot.com EZ

    @Mr. C

    I was hoping he’d get traded after that season, too, for all the reasons MattyFos listed and because of the combustion that occurred at the end of the season. Also, even back then, I was pretty sure we didn’t move back into the first round so we could draft a backup.

    @boogeyman

    Not at apt comparison. Gibson is still shooting the 3 at a high level. He still plays strong in the areas that brought attention to him in the first place. Anderson, however, has completely fallen from where he was in 2007.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com Denny

    I can’t wait to continue to talk quarterbacks for the next 6 months.

    Yikes.

  • MattyFos

    Boogey- There are a lot of Aged Browns fans who still feel appreciation for DA. He made the Browns relevant with his play in 2007. I believe he was a product of the stars aligning. Three very good/very big receivers. A healthy/studly Jamal Lewis.
    Some of the older fans (my father) will always have a spot in their hearts because 2007 was a fun season to watch…. 20% may be too high…. How about 85% rejoice 15% cry out “HE WAS A PRO-BOWLER”
    07 was a great season for entertainment. A lot of close games that we fell short in because of the inefficiencies of Derek Anderson.

  • TSR3000

    I still hold on to hope that we are shipping out BQ.

  • MrCleaveland

    @21 and 23

    I stand in awe of your incredible prescience.

    So, who should we trade right now?

  • ben

    @27: LOL.

    yay QB drama

  • Ike

    Yes

  • Humpy

    I second what 5KMD said. That’s the overrated DA I remember. He cost us the playoffs with 4 picks against Cincy. DA,don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord slit ya!

  • stin4u

    I’m with Denny….

    /ear muff’d

  • bill-legarm

    @26 Considering the first line of my post was stating how terrible he’s been the last two years, I’d hardly say I’m an apologist. I’m just saying 2007 was a fun year to be a Browns fan and D.A. had a lot to do with it. And he had a lot to do with them missing the playoffs.

    But if you were down at that stadium at all in 2007, there’s no way you could forget what that year was like.

  • Jack

    Everyone keeps saying/yelling he was a “PRO BOWLER!” What does this have to do with being any good at football?!

    I mean, I know you throw balls and there are ten things in front of you, but other than that I don’t really see how the skill sets overlap…

  • MattyFos

    MrC- don’t get jealous of our foresight. You bought into the DA era when we didn’t. It happens. I am taking a big risk on my support of Tim Tebow. I think he’ll be a good QB. A lot of people disagree with me. Remember MattyFos likes Tim Tebow then come find me in three years hoping to rub it in my face how wrong I was…. B/c in three years you better believe I’ll be leading a whole bunch of people on this website talking about how ‘we’ all wanted the Browns to draft Tim Tebow.

  • MattyFos

    Jack, not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not. But I was mocking an argument that DA fans make. I am not a DA fan. I was using HE WAS A PRO-BOWLER to symbolize the strongest/only argument DA fans use.

  • matt

    Before I get going, I should state that I am not a DA supporter, nor did I want him as the starting QB of the Browns. but….

    This guy was thrust into the starting role and in his first real season had the best season of any “new” Browns QB. Who really thought that we would have finished 10-6 that year when he took the reigns? It is not his fault that Savage game him that ridiculous extension rather than trade him at his max value.

    I guess I really don’t see why so many people actually personally wish him ill will, when its not like this guy was gift wrapped an ideal situation to come into, and he played pretty well that year.

  • stin4u

    I will lead the charge to not draft Tebow who’s with me!

  • Jack

    Haha, MattyFos, I just picked your CAPS out via speed-read.

    I was just making a bowling joke…get it?…he’s a PRO BOWLER!

    A ball, ten things in front of you…

  • stin4u

    and then in three years when Tim is selling spicy hot dogs on the street I will buy you one and we’ll have a hearty laugh matty! wohoooo

  • MrCleaveland

    @39

    Okay, Fos, I’ll give you credit for putting your rep on the line with Tebow. And I guess you really would have been one of a very small group of contrarians who would have been supporting the DA trade and criticizing the thousand or so picketers out at Berea.

  • Andy

    Do people really think we still might get Troy Smith? I get confused with all the sarcasm and such. Didn’t know if we picked up Wallace to be some type of mentor for Smith?

  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    @Matty I can’t hold Anderson in any kind of esteem for the reasons provided earlier like the way he finished in 2007. The fact he choked and couldn’t help the Browns even make the playoffs is his epitaph.

    @EZ – Please don’t get me started on the great Daniel Gibson I mean I was kind of sorry he was back last night to be completely honest.

    @MrCleveland – I wasn’t saying the Browns should have traded him because I forsaw a decline I never liked Anderson from the start. His decline being so rapid surprised me but I always thought 2007 was the exception and not the norm. Btw your talking to the wrong person about trading people because I’d have checked around and listened to offers for both Rogers and Cribbs had I been Holmgren or even Heckert.

  • Cody

    Seneca Wallace is better than Brady Quinn, he will start mark my word.

  • http://www.msblsim.com boogeyman

    @Andy no a big NO on Troy Smith at least from me.

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