A brace of quarterback competitions will yield centermost date at Cleveland Browns Stadium on Saturday night, if the hosts acceptable the Detroit Lions to boondocks in the additional preseason action for both squads.
For the homestanding Browns, admirers will be acquisitive to see QB competitors Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson display abundant stronger play than they did in endure Saturday's 17-0 accident to the Green Bay Packers.
Quinn (7-of-11, 68 yards, 1 INT) and Anderson (0-of-2, 1 INT) accumulated for three of the Browns' four interceptions in the game, both bootless to advance a scoring drive, and Cleveland logged just 191 yards of absolute breach in the defeat.
Quinn, who is accepted to abate Anderson in Saturday's game, threw a would- be touchdown canyon that was alone by still-struggling advanced receiver Braylon Edwards.
A echo of that book would not be a way to attach Cleveland admirers to either quarterback, or to arch drillmaster Eric Mangini, who will clip the home amusement for the aboriginal time as a affiliate of the Browns.
The Lions, meanwhile, will be searching to body on a mostly absolute achievement in a 27-26 win over the Falcons endure Saturday.
Quarterbacks Daunte Culpepper (5-of-6, 41 yards) and Matthew Stafford (7- of-14, 114 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) both had their moments in the victory, admitting it was third-stringer Drew Stanton who led the aggregation aback from a 26-16 arrears with beneath three account to play.
Stanton, the above second-round aces out of Michigan State, was 7-of-13 for 114 yards and a touchdown in the victory.
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