Cleveland Browns Family Day Scrimmage: Round One To Brady Quinn

Throughout the week Browns fans have been following the practices very closely. They have paid close attention to the quarterback competition. It has really gone back and forth and both Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson have had their moments, both positive and negative.

That led me to the conclusion that while this goes back and forth in practice, there are really three days that will decide it. The first one was the family day scrimmage which is like an extra pre season game. The second will be the Packer game and the third will be the Lion game. I really think the starter has to be determined before the Titan game.

Sunday was the first of the three days. In the scrimmage, Quinn threw 51 yard touchdown to Lance Legget on his first play. Overall, he was 11 of 19 for 121 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

What doesn't show up on the stat sheet is that Quinn led his team down the field in the waning seconds of the game for a potential game winning field goal. It was missed. Also his one interception was the result of a pass that bounced off Legget.

Derek Anderson also had a pretty good day statistically. He was 12 of 21 for 107 yards with an interception. He had no throwing TDs but did run one in from the six.

So again if you just look at the stats, it looks quite even. However, the reality is that Anderson's interception came as a result of him overthrowing Robert Royal and D'Qwell Jackson picking it off at the goal line and taking it 40 yards.

It also needs to be noted that his six yard touchdown run came as a result of a drive that Brett Ratliff started. Ratliff got them down there but the start of the fourth quarter brought Anderson in to finish it.

Overall, both quarterbacks did a lot of positive things out there. At the end of the day Quinn really outperformed Anderson if you add everything up.

This now becomes a very big week for Anderson. I am sure Eric Mangini will want to see how he responds to being outperformed not only by Quinn but also by Ratliff who had a 71 yard touchdown pass to David Patten. Coaches know that to be successful players must respond to adversity.

While this competition is still a long way from being decided, round one definitely goes to Quinn.