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Sorry, Charlie: Frye sacked again, dealt to Seahawks Browns tab Anderson as starter, for now; Dorsey brought back MARLA RIDENOURAkron Beacon Journal Seattle visits Cleveland on Nov. 4.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Frye is the first quarterback since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to start his team’s season opener and be traded before week two. Savage said he’d been floating the idea of trading Frye or Anderson for months. That took on more urgency after Frye’s dismal performance in Sunday’s 34-7 home-opening loss to Pittsburgh. Frye completed 4-of-10 passes for 34 yards and an interception and was sacked five times. His quarterback rating was 10.0. Anderson replaced him with 6:34 left in the second quarter and completed 13-of-28 for 184 yards and a touchdown, plus an interception and a sack. His rating was 65.2. Savage said: “A year ago I was saying, ‘Let’s try to build the thing around Charlie.’ We attempted to do that. He came into a very tough situation. We’ve had a number of coordinators; I vouched for him in a number of different situations that came up during his time here. But at the same time, Sunday we needed to see more production. The most revealing thing that happened was that in his 10 (actually 15) attempts, he took five sacks; in Derek’s 28 (actually 29) attempts, he took one sack.” Savage said Frye talked to several people in Berea on Monday night, including Savage and coach Romeo Crennel. Savage met with Frye again at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to give him the news. “He’s obviously disappointed,” Savage said. “When you get drafted in the third round and you come to your hometown team, you want it to to turn out differently. He realizes he was put in a pretty tough spot. I told him some of the things he’s been through the last two years will serve him well. He’s been through a lot more than a lot of other young quarterbacks. I think it will help him. “He handled it with maturity. He’s a good person, he works hard, and I think he’ll do OK out there. It’s going to be a different system; that will give him a chance to grow and develop.” Akron coach J.D. Brookhart said he feels bad for Frye, but he hasn’t lost faith in him. “He works very hard. He’s got all the intangibles,” Brookhart said. “You don’t know (Sunday) if the receivers ran the wrong routes, or the protection wasn’t right. You don’t know how to assess everything off a quarter and a half. It’s not like that’s his first game. “Charlie will have his opportunity again, and knowing him, he’ll be prepared for it. Charlie is the right kind of guy. He will press on. He’ll be in the NFL a long time.” 
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