yea I meant to say something about this. Peterson is a lock for them be it they get the pick ahead of us. For the record Tampa Bay isn't far behind in the chase for the #1 pick. of course QB would easily be their 1st pick. Either we go for 1 or 3 to avoid Quinn? Hard to say, but even he is available, I doubt we bite on him. Especially if LSU whoops on the Irish every other top tier school has this year.
I apologize to anybody who likes him. but he's a hard sell IMO to a franchise that doesnt like waiting on qb's to blossom. Not to mention we knowingly provide the worst environment for them to. If we didnt have Walter(Al has more faith in him that Tui and kept Tui for quite awhile w/o drafting a qb), Brooks, and was bringing in a top tier vet qb and RB at the same time(yes all that at once would have to happen). Then I think we'd look at him. But otherwise Al likes his gambles to have some NFL experience at the qb position. Something that was further strengthened when he went out of the box of thinking to get the "USC" QB Maranovich who crumbled to pieces in the shitty environment we provided.
Excuse my pessimism , but no amount of crow eaten on earth could ease me being right about the bad that can come from us investing(whats the going rate for #1 holdout capable qb's at about 5 to 6 years?
) into Quinn. I think he has potential in the right set up to improve quickly, somewhere like Tampa Bay where they have a RB, Defense, and ST to support him in a west coast offense that will be able to keep it safe for him.
With all this said I could be wrong about the kid. But history says otherwise. Also to be fair to the raiders, Leinart has showed great poise and I think he'll be very good. But nothing to tell me he wouldnt be on his ass just as quick as Walter if he was here. Honestly Walter is screwed being here. This place is a brown hole shit for young qb's. I'm ok with that because we woulda never got Gannon or Hostetler if we weren't like we are. Nevertheless, If I was a young qb, I might do an Eli Manning.
