More Quinn to Denver speculation
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The one thing I've learned from all these threads are that MOST of the media & a scary number of scouts are pretty darned inaccurate!
I agree.
As far as the media, the days of reporting news is long gone. It is now an op-ed based medium, so with that, you get a lot of "stuff" being passed along.
As to scouts and scouting....it is why i have said for a long time you would probably do as well simply throwing darts to select players.
For the most part teams/scouts do a good job of getting players in to the correct tier, but after that, plain old luck come in to play.
It is sort of like you being given 30 keys to a car but only being allowed to use one of them to try to start the car.
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I was watching NFL Network this morning and they were discussing the Broncos QB situation (surprise). They mentioned that Quinn was NOT high on NE's draft board when he came out...and that they really doubted that Quinn was a player that McDaniel would really want.
Obviously this is all speculation, but an interesting twist to this whole thing.
Quinn was all over the place with scouts and ratings. That year TSN had Quinn rated a 3rd round talent.
That might be a stretch, but it does show some scouts didn't feel he was all that great a prospect.
I am sure there were several teams who had Quinn rated as a 2nd round talent....and that probably isn't stretching matters.
I guess the bottom line is BQ wasn't a slam dunk choice around the league.
Quinn was all over the place with scouts and ratings. That year TSN had Quinn rated a 3rd round talent.
That might be a stretch, but it does show some scouts didn't feel he was all that great a prospect.
I am sure there were several teams who had Quinn rated as a 2nd round talent....and that probably isn't stretching matters.
I guess the bottom line is BQ wasn't a slam dunk choice around the league.
Maybe not, but Layne Kiffin has publically stated that he wanted Quinn #1 overall, not JaMarcus Russell, who Al Davis forced him to pick.
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Quinn was all over the place with scouts and ratings. That year TSN had Quinn rated a 3rd round talent.
That might be a stretch, but it does show some scouts didn't feel he was all that great a prospect.
I am sure there were several teams who had Quinn rated as a 2nd round talent....and that probably isn't stretching matters.
I guess the bottom line is BQ wasn't a slam dunk choice around the league.
Maybe not, but Layne Kiffin has publically stated that he wanted Quinn #1 overall, not JaMarcus Russell, who Al Davis forced him to pick.
Maybe not, but Layne Kiffin has publically stated that he wanted Quinn #1 overall, not JaMarcus Russell, who Al Davis forced him to pick.
Thanks for that info Samoth! makes perfect sense.
It would be tough for ANY of the USC coaches to forget that Quinn actually led a vastly undermanned ND team to go ahead points the LAST time ND's offense touched the ball in Quinn's junior year. What more can you ask of your QB against the #1 ranked team in the country?
The ONLY difference in that game and USC's game vrs Texas was that Texas scored as time expired while USC scored as time expired vrs ND.
Since we gave up a first round pick and another pick to GET Quinn, it sure would have been nice to see our organization putting a spinal column into that decision. We're in transition so what is the HARM of seeing what we got in Quinn? We've seen 26 auditions of DA and they aren't improving. Let's stop pretending we're sitting Quinn for Brett Favre here.
- Tom F.
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Quinn was all over the place with scouts and ratings. That year TSN had Quinn rated a 3rd round talent.
That might be a stretch, but it does show some scouts didn't feel he was all that great a prospect.
I am sure there were several teams who had Quinn rated as a 2nd round talent....and that probably isn't stretching matters.
I guess the bottom line is BQ wasn't a slam dunk choice around the league.
Maybe not, but Layne Kiffin has publically stated that he wanted Quinn #1 overall, not JaMarcus Russell, who Al Davis forced him to pick.
Maybe not, but Layne Kiffin has publically stated that he wanted Quinn #1 overall, not JaMarcus Russell, who Al Davis forced him to pick.
Like I said...the opinions were all over the board.
Good old Layne.....he also said Meyer was a cheater when he wasn't, and all the while, he was in violation of the rules.
That has nothing to do with any of this, but you brought him up and it sent me off in another direction.
9-19-09. I am looking forward to that.
If Flugs and Dency need me to drive up to Knoxville to teach them how to do the Gator Chop, or teach them to sing "We are the Boys", it can be worked out.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn. -
I have to represent the Bucks after that. LOL
1st Ezekiel Ansah, DE, BYU 3rd Darius Slay, CB, Mississippi State4th Landry Jones, QB, Oklahoma5th Earl Wolff, S, N.C. State6th Lucas Reed, TE, New Mexico -
Maybe not, but Layne Kiffin has publically stated that he wanted Quinn #1 overall, not JaMarcus Russell, who Al Davis forced him to pick.
Like I said...the opinions were all over the board.
Good old Layne.....he also said Meyer was a cheater when he wasn't, and all the while, he was in violation of the rules.
That has nothing to do with any of this, but you brought him up and it sent me off in another direction.
9-19-09. I am looking forward to that.
If Flugs and Dency need me to drive up to Knoxville to teach them how to do the Gator Chop, or teach them to sing "We are the Boys", it can be worked out.
Like I said...the opinions were all over the board.
Good old Layne.....he also said Meyer was a cheater when he wasn't, and all the while, he was in violation of the rules.
That has nothing to do with any of this, but you brought him up and it sent me off in another direction.
9-19-09. I am looking forward to that.
If Flugs and Dency need me to drive up to Knoxville to teach them how to do the Gator Chop, or teach them to sing "We are the Boys", it can be worked out.
LOL! I wouldn't bet against you on the chop or the song.
That's a VERY good point about Kiffen's lack of accuracy with his accusations. There's ALOT of people in Middle Tennessee that aren't digging his act just yet. Sports radio got REALLY entertaining when all that was going down. The LAST guy I'd want to rub the wrong way if I'm a NEW SEC coach is Urban Meyer. You're better off going the Ole Miss route and flying under the radar if you want to sneak up on Florida.
- Tom F.
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Sorry....after i wrote that I remembered you are in Nashville.
Actually, that works out...the three of us can meet up in the middle....say Cookeville or Crossville....both are nice towns with some decent eating options.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn. -
I have to represent the Bucks after that. LOL
nmills said:
I have to represent the Bucks after that. LOLThat's cool Mills....I like the song...I grew up in Ohio..got my degrees from Florida. I still pull for the Bucks "almost" all of the time.
Actually, this is the official fight song....the others are fan songs..
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Sorry....after i wrote that I remembered you are in Nashville.
Actually, that works out...the three of us can meet up in the middle....say Cookeville or Crossville....both are nice towns with some decent eating options.
Sorry....after i wrote that I remembered you are in Nashville.
Actually, that works out...the three of us can meet up in the middle....say Cookeville or Crossville....both are nice towns with some decent eating options.
Sounds like fun! I might even be out your way in Chattanooga that weekend. I'll let you know as we get get closer to game day.
- Tom F.
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I can assure you I will be in Gainesville that weekend unless the football gods work against me and that is the Browns opening weekend....in which case I might be in Cleveland......or.....I may even try to do both
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