Josh McCown and Sean Ryan signed

Adam Schefter, of NFL.com, reports that Miami has signed QB Josh McCown and TE Sean Ryan. McCown (6'4", 215 lbs.) was a third-round draft pick of the Cardinals in 2002. He is 28 years old. The contract that he signed is for two years and worth $6.25 million. Here are McCown's career stats:
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Career Passing Stats
Year	Team	G	Att	Cmp	Comp %	Yds	Yd/A	TDs	Int	Sacked	Yds	Rating
2002	Ari	2	18	7	38.9	66	3.7	0	2	5	50	10.2
2003	Ari	8	166	95	57.2	1018	6.1	5	6	25	174	70.3
2004	Ari	14	408	233	57.1	2511	6.2	11	10	31	263	74.1
2005	Ari	9	270	163	60.4	1836	6.8	9	11	18	101	74.9
2006	Det	2	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	-
2007	Oak	9	190	111	58.4	1151	6.1	10	11	14	92	69.4
Totals		44	1052	609	57.9	6582	6.3	35	40	93	680	71.6

Career Rushing/Receiving Stats
Year	Team	G	Rush	Yds	Yd/Rush	TDs	Rec	Yds	Yd/Rec	TDs
2002	Ari	2	1	20	20.0	0	0	0	-	0
2003	Ari	8	28	158	5.6	1	0	0	-	0
2004	Ari	14	36	112	3.1	2	1	-5	-5.0	0
2005	Ari	9	29	139	4.8	0	0	0	-	0
2006	Det	2	0	0	-	0	2	15	7.5	0
2007	Oak	9	29	143	4.9	0	0	0	-	0
Totals		44	123	572	4.7	3	3	10	3.3	0

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Here is a breakdown of his incomplete passes from the 2007 season:

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Type	Number	Pct of Incomp	Pct of Overall Attempts
Pass Dropped	4	5.1	2.1
Poor Throw	32	40.5	16.8
Pass Defensed	12	15.2	6.3
Pass Hit at Line	3	3.8	1.6
Other	17	21.5	8.9
Intercepted	11	13.9	5.8

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McCown is a solid backup with a good deal of starting experience, but John Beck needs to be given more opportunities to lead this team. McCown has only had one season in which he threw more TDs than INTs, and 5.8% of his attempts last season were intercepted, compared to John Beck's 2.8%.

Here is a look at McCown's career using the Football Outsider metrics. Remember, "DPAR means a quarterback with more total value. DVOA means a quarterback with more value per play."

	DPAR	DPAR Rank	DVOA	DVOA Rank
2002	-15.6	--	-189.6%	--
2003	-12.4	40	-28.7%	41
2004	10.5	25	-7.6%	26
2005	13.1	25	-2.5%	24
2007	-25.7	49	-41.6%	49

Wow, he was pretty horrible last season - one of the worst quarterbacks in the league. However, in '04 and '05 he was a decent player. The thing with McCown is that he's maddeningly inconsistent, and that's not a quality you ever want to see in your starting QB. Thus, McCown needs to be kept on the bench unless the situation is an absolute emergency.

Sean Ryan (6'5", 265 lbs.) was a fifth-round draft pick of the Cowboys in 2004. He has good size and is known as a good blocking TE. Ryan is 27 years old.

Here are his career stats:

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YEAR	TEAM	G	REC	YDS	AVG	LNG	TD	FD	FUM	LOST
2006	NYJ	16	6	44	7.3	10	0	1	1	1
2007	NYJ	10	3	46	15.3	22	0	2	0	0
Career		26	9	90	10.0	22	0	3	1	1

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