Talk about a noisy withdrawal. Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson was sent packing by the team on Tuesday and he let the door hit him in the ass on the way out. In an email to the Lake County News-Herald, Anderson unloaded a few years worth of frustration by dumping not on the team that won’t be paying him nearly $10 million for the 2010 season but the fans who suffered through one awful performance after another for the last two seasons. Anderson has since apologized, more or less. He now says he was just speaking out of frustration. Really?

Is it just me, or did Sunday’s free agent signings of Tony Pashos and Scott Fujita remind you of this time last year, when Eric Mangini went on a similar Big Lots shopping spree, albeit one that didn’t move far from the Jets Bargain Bin? The 2010 Pashos signing is indeed an upgrade over the 2009 version, one John St. Clair. Also, isn’t Fujita a kind of Eric Barton 2.0? Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I’ll take Pashos at right tackle over St. Clair anyday. Actually, I would even consider Brady Quinn over St. Clair at this point in the veteran “tackle’s” career. By the by, that was my obigatory QB reference of the day. Feel free to discuss amongst yourselves.

It’s early March on the NFL calendar which can only mean one thing: the world’s costliest flea market is open for business, limited time only. Every year beginning in late February, just after the NFL combine closes and general managers and coaches have had their fill of poking, prodding and testing the new meat, each NFL team heads to the fair grounds and sets up a swap meet of sorts to poke, prod and test the old meat.

Handicapping the NFL college draft every year has become a cottage industry. Mel “Wethead” Kiper, for one, has pocketed millions selling his dubious expertise to Website visitors, magazines and ESPN -- and he’s wrong more often than he’s right! So although these guys like to think of themselves as astute, their records are far from infallible. Most of them hover around the 20 to 25 percent accuracy mark. Why? Because there are just too many variables. Take the case of the Cleveland Browns, for instance, drafting seventh next month ...