Is Brady Quinn Being Selfish By Holding Out?

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Originally Posted by offiss

What you fail to realize is the other side of that argument, with Quinn in many scouts opinion's was made to look much better than he was because of what he had around him, he had maybe the best offensive mind in college football coaching him, playing a lot of inferior teams, do you really believe that a kid from a program like ND, with the college and pro hype machine working 24-7 to promote him was overlooked in the draft? Come on, the guy looks way to mechanical, he's not a natural talent at the QB position, that is why with the QB being such a premium position he fell all the way to the #22 pick, it was no mistake.

The nature of college football is that superior talent can make you look far better than you really are at QB. Troy Smith, all you need to know about him is to look at the national champ. game, he was under throwing receiver after receiver, he is no NFL QB. He was surrounded with superior talent all season and that's that for Smith.

I also think you are under the delusion that scouts don't have the ability to evaluate whether or not a QB is a product of the system, or has the system held him back? It's not that difficult to break that down, whether or not that projection actually cultivates into an NFL QB still remains to be seen considering most fail regardless.

If he was red flagged it wasnt because of his numbers, it was because they saw no improvement in Quinn himself as a QB.

See to evaluate a QB you can't look at numbers, what you have to do is see if he makes the right reads but doesn't have the talent around him to allow success, from WR's not getting open, to O-lines not giving him any time, and is he accurate when he does have time and a WR open? Obviously Quinn didn't show nearly enough to impress most scouts.

You either didn't read half my post, didn't understand it, didn't care to interpret it or whatever, because there's really no "other side" to my theory as its presented. I wasn't talking about hype at all. I don't pay it any heed. I ignore hype.

If my theory is really incorrect, and Quinn did stop improving, how would you describe the reasoning for this? "Just because" doesn't fly with me, and you know it. Quinn was 22 last year, and you're accusation is that he stopped improving...well QBs tend to peak at 31 or 32. So to make such an accusation, you must really know something the rest of us don't.