I don't think I'm ever surprised at how high the quarterbacks go. There could be a lot of teams that often times don't have a lot of first-round grades on guys that are going in the first round, and that's just the nature of the business.
I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we're going to move on. We'll find someone else to play quarterback.
Obviously, when you take a quarterback, when you take anybody in the first round, it means something.
The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.
So, there's no guarantee in the NFL that if you've got the No. 1 pick or you've got a top-five pick, that you're going to be able to draft a franchise quarterback.
I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.
No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.
It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.
Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.
