View from Pluto
Forget QBs, Lewis is key
By Terry Pluto
TALKIN' BROWNS
? When the Browns open camp in two weeks, most fans will be talking about the quarterbacks. Of course, that's what we do in this town -- talk quarterbacks, at least since the end of the Bernie Kosar regime. But what will determine the success of the Browns' offense is not the quarterbacks -- it's the offensive line and whether Jamal Lewis can approach some of his previous form as a punishing runner.
? OK, I know you want to talk about quarterbacks, so here we go. . . . Heading into veterans camp, Derek Anderson is the starter. The Browns won't say it and might not even act like it early in camp, but he clearly came out on top in the minicamps.
? Charlie Frye will have to deal with this: For the first time in his life, he had a starting job and might lose it. That was never the case in high school. It never happened at the University of Akron, where he became the Zips' starting quarterback in his second game -- and started after that. Nor did it happen with the Browns, who prepared him to become a starter. But it's happening now, from the praise that Anderson is receiving to the draft of Brady Quinn. It will be interesting to see how Frye responds.
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