Sorry Penis, but that's off base.
Quinn was ranked high but only by teams that need a quarterback. He was rated very highly by Cleveland, but not higher than Thomas, who they took at 3. After Miami took Ginn, what team between 9 and 23 needed a quarterback?
Why would you draft and pay top money for a quarterback who is going to ride your bench? The reason Cleveland waited so long is because there was no reason to trade up into the top 10, 15 or even 20, because no team was going to take Quinn (besides maybe JAX. Del Rio wanted him but was overruled), because no team needed Quinn. The Browns waited and took him right when they needed to --right above KC who was the next team in line that would need a QB.
I'm guessing he's more NFL ready than Russell. He ran an NFL-style offense under Weis and had a ton of success with it with fewer weapons than Russell had.
dood, you totally proved my point.
you only mentioned one team that had him ranked highly, cleveland. look at the quality of starting qbs in the nfl. if teams were highly confident that he had the goods, he would have been picked up by somebody before the #22 pick. teams don't see an opportunity to draft an elite qb and not make a move --- look at past drafts that had multiple elite qbs.
and look at cleveland. they took the franchise ot over quinn. if they truly believed that quinn was an elite, top 10 qb, they would take him over a franchise ot. but the reality is that cleveland knew what you did not -- that other teams did not have quinn rated that highly, and the risk of passing and hoping to trade into the lower part of the first round was acceptable.
tampa bay looked at quinn and decided what they have on their roster is better.
so did washington, minnesota, miami, houston, jersey, green bay and jacksonville.
