i dunno about Garrard being better than Flynn.. at least now. But that's the thing with Flynn.. very few knew how good he was excepting a few including our new HC. Importantly he's not on our roster. So is it possible he can turn out to be a stud we regret passing on like Rodgers and Brees?? (don't give me the melting Matty routine until he can gut it up and win something somewhere involving sudden death elimination). Could happen and I was all for signing him if Philbin wanted it. But with only 2 teams interested at a QB starting salary, there's more of a likelihood he'll turn into another Kolb, AJ Feeley, Scott Mitchell, etc. But regardless, anyone right now who'd rather have the modern day version of Garrard rather than Flynn, sight unseen, I'd disagree with!
I think Ireland is way too blunt - probably doesn't sufficiently filter what passes between his mind and lips. You're absolutely right: a too candid, slow-witted, already problematic candidate informed Ireland that his dad was a pimp and his mom, a known incarcerated crackhead felon, worked for his dad. Ireland probably should have said something like: "I'll bet she was a poultry farmer who sometimes worked in a quarry since she's obviously raised a lot of cokks for profit, and knows her way too well around rocks of cocaine!" But he didn't and Silver manipulated a slow-witted impressionable hood rat into making a mountain out of a molehill for his own aggrandizement by throwing Bryant and his "family" under the bus in order to make his own journalistic bones. It is what it is.
