Apparently, blowing a two-touchdown lead against the Ravens last Sunday, punctuated by an Anderson screen pass pick-six (don't see that everyday) pretty much cemented the demoralizing defeat and the 2007 Pro Bowler's fate.
Last night, Mortensen speculated that head coach Romeo Crennel may not have "been on board" with the switch because "receivers have been hurt, haven't been running routes correctly, been dropping passes," so on and so forth. And that actually makes sense given Crennel's "Anderson's our starter for now" comments on Monday afternoon.
Twenty-four hours later, however, Mr. Romeo is working from a new script. From today's presser:
"We needed a different dynamic on the offense so that's why I made that decision. Some of the things that had to do with it was our record, offensive ranking, offensive production, and so I made the decision to make the change. ...Duly noted, Romeo. One question: how does benching Anderson make Braylon Edwards suddenly not drop every pass thrown to him?
It was just time [to go with Quinn] so I just did it. ... The thing about it is we're not throwing in the towel, we're not giving up on the season, we're going to beat Denver and that's what we're going to do."
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11-04-2008 @ 9:10PM
BlueStarDude said...
Two other possible reason to make the change now even though it's a short week:
1. Denver's pass defense is awful this year, so there's a decent chance that if you play Anderson this week he'll have a good game which would make it harder to do the switch next week,
2. The game is on NFL Network, right? Denver vs. Cleveland, not exactly two good teams this year. What better way to drum up interest in the game and help support the possibly failing Network?
Maybe I'm too cynical.
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