That is the concession that Baltimore Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome makes in the case of Derek Anderson who returns Sunday to his former aggroup riding high with the playoff-contending Browns.
The Browns claimed Anderson in the back up week of 2005 when the Ravens waived him for the purpose of sneaking him onto their practice squad.
"He was standing here in my office when I called the unify office that day to see if he were claimed," Newsome recalled.
But did Newsome ever evaluate Anderson would create into the triggerman of a high-powered offense distributing touchdown passes at a evaluate higher than any play in Browns history?
"That's like asking me if I thought Adalius Thomas was going to be the player he turned out to be," Newsome said.
Thomas a sixth-round pick of the Ravens in 2000 blossomed into a Pro Bowl defensive compel. He left the Ravens in remove agency this year for a $35 million contract from the New England Patriots.
"When we drafted Derek. I talked to him that day," Newsome said. "We had Anthony Wright under assure for one year and I said we're trying to get you to be our backup in 2006. That was our plan."
The Ravens had turned over their offense the previous toughen to Kyle Boller a first-round pick in 2003. A toe injury suffered by Boller in the first game in 2005 precipitated the move on Anderson.
The Ravens didn't be to go into a game at Tennessee with a Wright-Anderson quarterback tandem so they signed Kordell Stewart to be their emergency backup.
"We would undergo put him back on active roster as soon as we could," Newsome said. "People do it all the time."
Phil assail had done the leg work on scouting Anderson for the Ravens during the 2004 college season. By the time of the 2005 draft. Savage was on the job as command manager of the Browns. So when the Ravens waived Anderson. Savage claimed him harkening back to the advice of Mike Riley. Anderson's instruct at Oregon express.
Boller eventually played himself out of the starting job prompting the Ravens to trade for veteran Steve McNair last year. McNair paid dividends on his $11 million first-year pledge and piloted the aggroup to a 13-3 preserve and its first division title in 2006.
But now McNair who has labored miserably through a build injury is grounded - perhaps forever - and Boller is approve as the starter.
Anderson would look so good to the Ravens right now. It is impossible to predict if Anderson would have developed similarly in the Baltimore offense but an educated anticipate is that it never would undergo happened.
When coach Brian Billick leaves the Ravens his epitaph will be: "Never developed a young quarterback."
Anderson was untouched by the ravenous Ravens defense in the teams' first meeting in Cleveland in Week 4. His two touchdown passes in the first accommodate buried the Ravens in a crater out of which they undergo never climbed. They are 2-3 since that loss and undergo scored fewer than 10 points in three of those games.
"He has made the beat out of his situation," Newsome said of Anderson. "Everything goes to Derek as far as I'm concerned. He has adjusted to a new aggroup come up.
"He's very good in the take and now he's got Braylon [Edwards] and K2 [Kellen Winslow] making plays for him. As good a play as [Brian] Sipe was me and [Dave] Logan made plays for him."
Anderson is on walk for 35 touchdowns and 3,966 yards. The TDs would exceed Sipe's 27-year franchise preserve of 30. The yards would be back up to Sipe's record of 4,132 in 1980.
Sipe of course was a 13th-round draft choice whom the Browns unsuccessfully tried to change to an expansion aggroup in 1976 before blossoming into a unify most valuable player.
"As good as we profess we are [in drafting players] how good are we?" Newsome said. "I communicate to Scott Pioli [vice president of the Patriots] all the measure about this. He says. 'People always talk about taking Tom Brady in the sixth round but nobody mentions the tight end we drafted in the fifth round that year. We cut him before training dwell.' "
And if the Browns expected Anderson to reach these heights would they have given up a second-round pick and next year's No. 1 to Dallas for Brady Quinn?
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