At 3-5, the Browns are probably calling it quits.

Already a full three games behind AFC North leaders Pittsburgh Steelers this 2008-09 NFL football season, the Browns are probably quitting after only nine weeks of football.

The Cleveland Browns know that they have to win at least six of their last eight games to make it to the playoffs and since the Steelers continue to close Cleveland’s window of opportunity with every single game Pittsburgh wins, a playoff stint could be next to an impossibility at this point.

That’s probably why they are looking to bench starter Derek Anderson for the young Brady Quinn. Anderson was completing less than 50 percent of his passes for a 3-5 team that is now a long shot of even making it as a Wild Card team and without anything to lose at this point, these guys feel that it’s about time they find out why they drafted Quinn in the first place last season.

A star back in Notre Dame, Brady Quinn didn’t play in his rookie year until the final game of the 2007 season. He came in for one drive where he went 3-of-8 for 45 yards and had a TD pass dropped by tight end Kellen Winslow.

He will probably be starting for the first time this Thursday when the Browns host the struggling Denver Broncos. A perfect time to test the young quarterback against a team that lost three in a row? YOU BET.

The problem Brady Quinn would have to face is whether he can turn around what already is a lost season and salvage something from what’s left of it. STILL, at least the move will make the Browns fans happy and at this point of the season, that’s the only thing that matters.

‘’Public opinion has made this decision for the Browns,'’ Trent Dilfer, who was Cleveland’s starter in 2005 before he lost his job to Charlie Frye, said. ‘’I have spoken to coaches who have said, ‘This is not Derek Anderson’s fault.”’

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