Graham Bensinger: What'd you think of draft week?
Brady Quinn: Looking back on it, it was a little disappointing seeing the way that I dropped. I never expected that to happen, but in the end, I was extremely excited to be in Cleveland, which was one of the places that I really wanted to be. Did I feel like it was a bad experience? Not necessarily. I met a lot of great people. It was fun being there with my family and friends. In the end, I was happy with how everything worked out.
Bensinger: Having visited with a variety of teams, how misled, if at all, did you feel by particular organizations?
Quinn: A couple of the teams I felt pretty misled by. When they talk to you, they say certain things … That was one thing I learned from A.J. [Hawk] and coach Weis. They both said that you can't believe a lot of what these people are saying. It doesn't matter if it's a coach or anyone else. They could be saying it to see if it gets out, as a smoke screen, or because that's how they really feel. There are a lot of things said with very little credibility behind them. Fortunately, I had great advice from a lot of different people.
Bensinger: You're sitting in the greenroom waiting to be drafted. How do you try to avoid looking dazed and bored when you're just sitting there knowing that the cameras are rolling on you live?
Quinn: It's tough. You obviously have to keep the conversation going because there's really not a lot going on back there, which is one of the toughest things. To sit back there and have the camera be on you when the team isn't going to take a QB. Why would a camera be on you? What's going to happen here? Some of the way that it was filmed didn't really make sense. The way it's presented doesn't make sense.
more of the interview can be found here
ESPN.com - NFL/DRAFT07 - Five minutes with ... Brady Quinn
05-02-2007, 11:22 AM
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