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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
The thing is that Derek Anderson may be better suited to play for a team like the Cards where he can heave the ball down the field and pray that Larry Fitzgerald can go get it. When he had Winslow and Edwards with the Browns under Romeo Crennel he did have a bit of success.
Problem is that Anderson is not a good accuracy guy at all. Kurt Warner was one of the best at getting off quick accurate passes to the hot route while taking the hit. Anderson will take the hit, but he'll overthrow that guy.
Not many teams are like the Chargers or Packers where they have a young stud future probowl QB waiting to take the reigns when the Future Hall of Fame guy retires, or gets sent out of town.
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There are alot of backups in the league that could take a team to more success than Anderson. Anderson had that one year where he came out of nowhere and got to a prow bowl but he still threw a lot of picks that year and teams now have a book on him. I'm not sure I would feel comfortable with him even as a backup for example I would much rather have a guy like Bruce Gradkowski as a backup that can come in and not lose games for you. Both of the Vkings backups are better than Anderson, Troy Smith with the Ravens, heck I'd take Seneca Wallace over Anderson. I'm not alone on this opinion as there have been numerous article on the Cards wondering how they could let it get to this. The have had a few years now to gauge Leinart and should have had a better backup plan than Anderson. Really if you have no future plan in place you may as well bring back Jeff Garcia as he'll move the sticks and not lose games.