What Happened To Brady Quinn?
March 11th, 2010 . by adamnBrady Quinn once saved my life.
I was down. I was out. Crushed. Beaten up. I was more pathetic than a grown man who actually thought it would be fashionable to wear a Donald Duck costume during one of his big concerts (Elton John), or a man that is almost 60 years old, and still calls himself “Sting” (ummm…that would be Sting). It was all because of Notre Dame football, how it was doing about as well as a Verne Troyer drunken stupor. The Davie/Willingham era of football (run, run, incomplete pass/bubble screen for minimal yards, punt) was an offensive catastrophe of ineptitude on the level of Armageddon (not the actual Armageddon, but Ben Affleck’s acting in the movie). The Irish offense was about as exciting as Betty White’s current sex life.
Then, the Brady Quinn offense arose, lighting up the skies for over 300 yards/game, and multiple touchdown tosses. Highlight after highlight of bombs to Stovall and Samardzija. The thirty-point game was a guarantee. Notre Dame football was fun again, for the first time in a long time.
Brady Quinn used to be the man.
The straight-out-of-a-fairy-tale hero. The golden-boy quarterback that Notre Dame craves. I used to tell my buddies that the Irish were a 5-win team without him, and if he had a defense (like Troy Smith, Jamarcus Russell, etc. had), he would have been a national championship quarterback. He had the tools, smarts and tutelage (Weis), to make his mark in the NFL.
But now?
It is 3 seasons later, and Quinn has done nothing. It’s not easy to become a star if you are drafted by the Browns, but Brady never did enough to really impress anyone in the organization. The Browns went mostly with a guy that threw enough questionable passes to make Brett Favre say “Holy Shit!”, and even after dealing him, they still don’t like what they have in Quinn.
So they are shopping him around, most likely ending his Cleveland career before it even started.
So, what happened to the quarterback I saw in college?