No quarterback camp competition in Cleveland this year

Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren went on the Dan Patrick show today and was asked about his QB situation. Would he let Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson battle it out in training camp like they did last year? Will both of them even be on the roster come training camp?

“I won’t tell you that right now,” Holmgren said. “They’re both here right now. We’ll see how it goes. I’m not a big believer in that competition stuff.

“We better make up our mind before we go to camp and then put our resources into one guy.”

Photo Caption: Bad idea (left) and Bad idea (right).

Sounds like a smarter plan than last year, regardless of whatever the plan was last year. Their QB play was an unmitigated disgrace, so do the opposite of whatever Mangini did last year.

Actually, he did the competition thing last year. So we aren’t surprised that Holmgren wants to do something else. We can’t see both of these guys being the first and second stringers regardless of who starts. They were just terrible last season and something has to change.

Holmgren also talked about his decision to keep Mangini as head coach.

“Eric and I had a number of discussions and once I was sold on how he did things, his approach, how we hit it off and how I figured we could work together, then I made my decision,” Holmgren said. “I think it would have been really unfair of me to make any of those decisions prior to our having those meetings and so I tried purposely not to do that.”