CanesSkins26 wrote:I'm not talking about most first rounders. I'm talking about Shanahan's history, or lack thereof, in successfully evaluating qbs. Let's look at who the Broncos drafted at qb during Shanahan's tenure...
Jeff Lewis 4th round
Brian Griese 3rd round
Jarious Jackson 7th round
Matt Mauck 7th round
Bradley Van Pelt 7th round
Jay Cutler 1st round
Tom Brandstater 6th round
You talking about a bunch of guys that mostly weren't even top 100 picks, you scraping the bottom of the barrel to prove a point that doesn't have data to support. drafting QBs in the 6th and 7th rounds and what became of them has nothing to do with his evaluation of top QBs
CanesSkins26 wrote:With the Broncos he also signed Jake Plummer as a free agent, and other qbs that he acquired that took snaps for him include Patrick Ramsey, Danny Kannel, Steve Buerlein, Gus Frerotte, Chris Miller, and Bubby Brister.
He signed Plummer to run his offense an that's the only guy on the list that he brought in to start.... it kind of like listing a bunch of 7th round picks and saying this is his history... it's not... it's your revised history of what he did.
CanesSkins26 wrote:As you know, with the Skins it was a failed trade for McNabb and the Rex/Beck fiasco.
John Elway, who Shanahan inherited, retired in 1999 and since then no qb has started in more than 4 seasons for the Broncos, and only 2 (Plummer and Cutler) started 2 full seasons (nobody has started 3 full seasons for Shanahan since Elway).
Let's look at it another way and not your way.... Elway retired in 99 (that's 12 years) Brian Griese (a 3rd round pick) led the team in passing from 1999 until 2002, or about four years he got banged up and missed games but he was Mike's pick and the teams leader, QBs do get hurt and miss games. If Brian had been healthy in 2003, maybe he wouldn't have went out and signed Plummer who also happened to led the team in passing for ..... four years. Cutler replaced Plummer in 2007 until MS was fired.
So in the 12 years after Elway retired he had 3 QB during the 10 years he stayed there.

Again QBs get hurt... Shanny won't just give them their job back once they get healthy (unless the only option is Beck), but both Griese and Plummer had 4 years behind center for Shanny.
It's in the hitory books.....