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BROWNS COULD STILL TRADE ANDERSON
Posted by Mike Florio on February 29, 2008, 7:30 p.m.


Throughout the afternoon, we were flooded with e-mails from folks
peddling rumors that the Browns might have signed quarterback Derek
Anderson to a three-year contract merely in advance of trading him.

Our first reaction was that the Browns wouldn't want to make a huge
bonus payment to Anderson and then trade him and an incur a huge cap
hit.

But then it occurred to us that maybe the trigger date for the first
payment is far enough into the future (for example, one or two weeks)
to gives the Browns an opportunity to move him.  It wouldn't be
definitive proof that there will be a trade; it would merely be
evidence that a trade could happen.

And we've learned that the first payment is due to Anderson . . . in April.

Again, this doesn't mean that he'll be traded.  But unless and until
that big payment is made there will be a window of opportunity for the
Browns to move him.

Stay tuned.