Q: On your head-coach priority list, how important is the ability to develop a young quarterback?
A: It’s really important. You draft a quarterback high, and you’re wrong? It sets you back, because then what happens, there are teams that I call, they’re in quarterback hell. They got solid defense, they’ve got a pretty good offensive line, they got some skill players. They … just … can’t … find the trigger guy. And what happens is they go 7-9, 8-8, 9-7, and they never get high enough to get a real guy, and they’re afraid to trade up and trade the farm to get a guy because they’re [No.] 18, 19, 20 draft position. I call that quarterback hell.
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The point itself regarding "quarterback hell" is valid and a potential reality for this franchise if they pass on one at 2.
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Q: What was your view of the infamous “boat trip” the week before the playoff game in Green Bay last January?
A: It’s not a good look. Who’s kidding who? Just like when [Tony] Romo and [Jason] Witten took off somewhere in [Cabo] that year. It’s not a good look.
Q: So you would be opposed to something like that?
A: Yes. Guys forget: There’s no guarantee you get in the playoffs every year. Ain’t no guarantee now! There’s no guarantee in this game.
a lot of BBI'ers will say Gettlemen is an idiot now with that statement because in their eyes it was no big deal or cause of what followed
There was nothing said there that wasn't said at the time. The initial criticism was "It's a poor optic". That's exactly what "It's a bad look" means.
The comparison to Witten and Romo going to Cabo with Jessica Simpson is spot on.
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That Walsh had the courage to tell Joe Montana, Rice, etc. That it was time raised an eyebrow for me.
Thanks for posting.
Of course, Walsh wasn't with the Niners when they moved on from Montana and Lott.
True, strictly speaking. But if people think McAdoo disrespected Eli, it pales to the way Walsh yanked Montana around in the last two years of his coaching tenure.
And that yanking around had everything to do with Walsh's willingness/eagerness to move on from Montana to Steve Young, who was five years younger.
Wonder how many people recall that, in the 1988 Week 2 game at Giants Stadium which Montana famously won with a last minute 80-yarder to Rice, it was Young who started and played the entire first half.
How precisely Gettleman recalls that entire episode, and what lessons he draws, makes for conjecture.
"BPA"
"Playmakers"
That's about it.
DG's style is much more transparent, without really giving anything sensitive away.
A good read.
That said, I think Gettleman is inclined to draft Allen if the Browns don't grab him and develop the hell out of him because he's the most physically talented, and if he's not available, he'll draft Barkley, play Eli, try to develop Webb, and maybe go QB next year or the year after. Of course, I could be way off. One thing I do know. Gettleman will be watching tape of Webb and every QB in this upcoming draft for days on end.
A: The obvious is the physical ability to do it, but it’s beyond that. It’s the leadership. It’s knowing how to rally the troops. It’s gotta be smarts. Head coach is a CEO, I gotta be a CEO, to a certain degree the quarterback’s gotta be a CEO. Put it in relatable terms — he’s gotta be a guy that if there’s a burning building and he says, “Let’s go,” he gets trampled.
Q: Do you have any size prototypes for a quarterback?
A: Who doesn’t want Cam Newton? Who doesn’t want that size prototype? You know, 6-[foot]-5, 245 [pounds], run a 4.5 [40-yard dash] — who the heck doesn’t want that? With the shorter guys — [Drew] Brees, Russell Wilson — their ability to slide and find the passing lane, that allows them to overcome the height issue. When you’re playing those guys, what you want to do is get inside pressure immediately, to not allow them to step up. Who doesn’t want a guy who’s a little bigger? It’s more about does he have the “it” factor? Is he a winner? Just because they go to the next level, it doesn’t necessarily stop. Some people are just winners.
Depending on who you're putting in the top ten, I suppose.
Goff was a #1, Ryan was a #3, Stafford was a #1, Rivers #4, Cam #1, Wentz #2
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A lot of people are saying we have to draft a QB because we are picking this high and you can’t pass on a franchise QB. I am curious If you look at the 10 best QBs in the league right now, how many were top 5 to top 10 picks?
Depending on who you're putting in the top ten, I suppose.
Goff was a #1, Ryan was a #3, Stafford was a #1, Rivers #4, Cam #1, Wentz #2
I could use those in my workplace. If this guy ever writes a book, I think I'd be interested in reading it
He will bring the HC in on this. Schwartz’s opinion, were he to be hired, would mean more than the Children’s because he’s prepared for Manning the last 2 seasons. He knows how much blame to assess to the oline, Beckham’s injury, the predictability of the offense, etc. One thing is for sure: Matt Millen (!) and Carl Banks won’t be brought in to the process .
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He is straight out of the 1950s. I don't think this will end well.
Wtf? THATS what you took away from that interview?
You don’t seem very bright....
Like the Maras, he seems very conservative in a social and cultural sense. People he most admires are the head of an evangelical Christian charity organization and Netanyahu. He says we live in a "PC world." He talks in cliches. He is exactly what I thought Mara would hire: a guy who worked for them previously and shares their conservative views.
Oh stop
The browns love trading down. They have "won" so many drafts over the last 20 years I have lost count. But now they are done trading down? Ok... not sure how anyone reached that conclusion but the smart money is on the browns trading down yet again. They love taking the qb that isn't the clear cut #1 or 2 in the draft.
The browns love trading down. They have "won" so many drafts over the last 20 years I have lost count. But now they are done trading down? Ok... not sure how anyone reached that conclusion but the smart money is on the browns trading down yet again. They love taking the qb that isn't the clear cut #1 or 2 in the draft.
They have a new GM who did an outstanding job building the Chiefs roster. They have so many picks already that they need quality not quantity.
It goes to show you how people process information to align with their preconceived notions. Or that Gettleman did exactly what he wanted to with those quotes - reveal nothing.
Exactly right