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For a variety of reasons that are still relatively unknown, Eric Mangini and George Kokinis haven’t provided any clarity to the Cleveland Browns’ QB picture. At this point, the only thing that we can say (almost) for sure is that the Browns QB depth is better with third stringer Brett Ratliff than they were with Ken Dorsey a season ago. And yet, because it is the Browns and because it is the quarterback position people can’t stop talking about the matchup of Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn. It even goes so far that this morning ESPN’s James Walker talked of combining the two players into a hybrid QB named “Brady Anderson.”

You know Derek Anderson. He has the rocket arm. He had one solid season when he got to be a Pro Bowl alternate before succumbing to the pressures, injuries and in all fairness the receivers’ drops a season ago. And then there is Brady Quinn. He is the pretty boy. The uber-marketable wanna-be face of the franchise who has touch on shorter and intermediate routes. He is the guy with leadership skills and all those intangibles that get reserved for players like Joe Montana and Tom Brady. Except that we really have no idea if he actually has that at all.

I know it is fun for some people to constantly argue back and forth between the two quarterbacks, but it is an unwinnable argument. The fact remains that we kind of know what we have in Derek Anderson. He has played in 31 games for the Browns and has a cumulative 75.1 QB rating over 927 attempts. Out of those attempts he has 506 completions, 43 touchdowns, and 35 interceptions. But what do we know about Brady Quinn?

I hear crickets.

Brady Quinn has played in four regular season games. He has made 97 pass attempts with 48 completions. With those completions, Brady Quinn has two touchdowns and two interceptions. We know nothing about Brady Quinn.

Honestly, looking at his stat sheet the craziest thing of all is that Quinn has only experienced being sacked once in his two-year NFL career to date. That means we don’t know anything about him situationally. How does he play with his back against the wall? How does he play after getting plastered to the field with the clock running down at the end of a half?

I know that I won’t be able to stop the debate. Trying to stop a QB debate in Cleveland is like trying to stop Marisa Miller from being attractive. What I do know is that it is Brady Quinn’s turn. Much like with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, we can’t go on forever not knowing anything about a player on our roster. I have said it once and I will say it again. I have no idea if Brady Quinn is that born leader, face of the franchise with intangibles for days, but I know that I want to find out this season. Then, and only then, can we have a truly honest debate about these two quarterbacks.