Notes from Shanahan interview at owners' meeting

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

If we're okay with a questionable motion we've already got Colt!

Zing! This is my arguement. We have a late round draft pick in Colt with a questionable throwing motion. Although I do like him and feel he could be a Favre in waiting. I know, I know, others will laugh at me. Who cares.

Then we have a late 1st round draft pick in JC who had a big slow wind up. Coach's have tried to change his throwing motion and after 5 years he's improved marginally. He's not going to be a franchise I don't care how much time you give him.

We have an undrafted FA in Bartel that we will have to look at and decide if he's worth keeping or not, but Dallas picked him up in 07 and he's played in Cleveland and Jacksonville. We picked him up off of Jacksonvilles pratice squad.

Then there is SexyRexy who was drafted by Chicaaaaaa go in the 1st round 22nd over all in 03. So yet again we have a late 1st round drafted QB and you all seem to think he's crap and won't see the field and will make a decent back up. Some of you don't even think he will make a decent back up.

So looking at our stable of QB's how on earth can anyone sit back and say we should not go after an early 1st round talented QB? Our other QB's range across the board and they are not getting the job done or some of you don't think they ever will and yet we should scuttle picking up a franchise all together and either go OL for protection of mediocre talent or simply trade out for more picks essentially putting us in a position to either draft a late round QB yet again or OL and picking up a 2nd round QB or worse not drafting a QB at all.

All I can say is we keep drafting mediocre talent at QB and we are going to keep getting mediocre performance. Teams have a better chance of picking up later round OL talent then they do picking up later round QB's. and although someone will put up the stats again on how many late round QB's there are those are needles in the hay stack. Those teams got extremely lucky and they know it. They'll most likely tell you they didn't realize the talent they had when drafting those QB's. But, in any case we already have 1 undrafted QB and 1 late round QB if your into those types of QB's and 2 late first round drafted QB's in your into that and honestly it doesn't sound like anyone is very interested in any of them other then to have loyalty for the incumbent.