dlockz
Hall Of Famer
Your sure Norm Chow thought more of Leinart than Vince Young?
Please give me your source.
My point was, Shea had just spent significant time trying to prepare Quinn for the draft, if he was totally enamored with him, thought he was a can't miss elite franchise QB, I'm quite sure he would have been our selection at #9, we are not the only QB needy team that passed on Brady Quinn.
Something really cooled Mueller and Cameron on Brady Quinn, they had no plans to draft him coming into this draft, it is only conjecture to hypothecize that Shea tilted the scale away from Brady Quinn, but it is logical to wonder, with his first hand knowledge and intimacy with Brady Quinn, why we were so down on him.
I don't think they were down on Quinn just were high on Ginn. I was just stating that I doubt Shea would determine our first pick of the draft no matter how high he was on a player much like chow in tennessee. I have no source on Chow but really doubt he thought that Vince Young was a better prospect than Leinhart. OC's do not determine who the third pick in the draft is. We have heard that Speilman liked Boldin better than Moore so its even more logical that people that had less to do with the draft would have even less influence. Who had final say in last year's draft, nobody believes it was Mueller. These were Mueller's own words.
"But we thought the combination of Ted Ginn and another guy would probably fill some more needs for us. I guess it's more of what we thought about Ted Ginn, not what we didn't think about Brady, because we liked Brady a lot."