Bill Polian Calls Jimmy Garoppolo (and a Bunch of Others) the 2nd Best QB He Ever Scouted After Peyton Manning
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Ordinarily, if I heard a Hall of Fame general manager spitting out Jimmy Garoppolo’s name off the top of his head when he’s asked who’s the best quarterback prospect he’s seen since he drafted his franchise guy 20 years ago, I’d be breaking out the top shelf booze and sending out the party evites. But unfortunately, this is Bill Polian we’re talking about. A guy who’s been on such a tear of making up facts, he should start having “Revisionist History Tour ’17” shirts made up.
I mean, I want nothing more than celebrated NFL personnel legends to go out and hump for Jimmy G with him being the hottest commodity in the offseason. But not Polian. This doesn’t help. Because by now it’s painfully obvious that Polian is a delusional coot who, in his own head, was never wrong about any move he ever made. Whether it’s claiming he never would have had Terrell Owens or Randy Moss on his team. Or this old gem he dropped in 2015:
“Tom Brady would have been a guy, and we were very high on him. Our guys really loved him, but we weren’t in the quarterback market, obviously. Those would be the guys I remember us giving solid, first-round, can-lead-you-to-a-championship grades.”
Right. 15 years after the fact, Bill (Na)Polian wants us to believe that the Colts war room knew that Brady was a “lead-you-to-a-championship” quarterback, but passed on him because they weren’t in the market for one. Even though his backup the previous year was Steve Walsh. They knew Brady was a first round talent but didn’t want him on the bench. Which is why they took BYU guard Matt Johnson (0 career games) 60 slots ahead of where the Patriots took Brady and made no effort to swing a deal for another pick while he was still on the board. Because what good is having the future GOAT on your roster? As it’s been said many times, many ways: Even the Patriots had no clue what they were getting. If they did, they wouldn’t have been dicking around with Jeff Marriott (161) and Antwan Harris (187) before making the greatest draft selection of all time in any sport.
So yeah, this is not necessarily the guy I want Kellyanne Conwaying the Trade Garoppolo campaign. A self-aggrandizing, history revising geezer with a couple of medals on his chest who talks like he won the war all by himself. A guy who wants credit even for the moves he didn’t make. But the good news is there are people around the league who respect this crackpot. So even if he did eventually change his mind and go with Roethlisburger, the price of Jimmy G might still have just gone up.