Joe Flacco Quotes

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.

You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

I remember players talking to Willie Brown in my presence. Receivers asking, 'Is this who you drafted? I can't believe this is who you drafted.' I was hearing it from my defensive backs: 'Man, you got a long way to go.'

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I don't wake up thinking about one individual player move.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State's front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn't think that I would end up there.

I didn't even care where I was drafted.

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom Brady. He could be the guy who turns around the fortune of the franchise.

When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year's chance to make the team.

When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.

When you get a draft pick right, you should be given full credit.

The decisions related to recruitment are all taken by football experts. My involvement is signing off the money.

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.