![]() “Truly, the Brady story is one of the great mysteries of all time,” said Accorsi. But it’s not like the signs weren’t there. It doesn’t take work to find an Andrew Luck you have to really be looking to find a Tom Brady. Skinny kids with unspectacular arms don’t grab the attention of scouts. He was never going to be a highly-touted prospect. Nobody in the Giants draft room had ever heard of Tom Brady. Whoever heard of Tom Brady?”Īnd that’s the problem. I gave Brady a middle-to-late-round grade, and when I was in the draft room I guess I got drowned out. Let’s give him a grade and at least we can talk about him. “I put him on the list,” the scout said, “and figured, it can’t hurt. He looked kind of emaciated, with no muscle definition.” ![]() If you saw him - and he was listed that day at 6-foot-5, 195 pounds - he didn’t look good. I wondered if his arm would be strong enough. He was very careful with his passes, very accurate, no interceptions. “I watched Brady, and he was actually pretty good. Though Brady was not one of the players the Giants were really interested in, the fifth-year senior still managed to catch Walsh’s eye. He was assigned to scout Michigan for potential draft picks. Whitey Walsh, who was destined to be a football scout from the moment his parents named him Whitey Walsh, was that scout. He drafted John Elway in Baltimore, Bernie Kosar in Cleveland and Eli Manning in New York.Įarlier this week, Accorsi revealed he ignored advice from a Giants scout to draft the skinny quarterback out of Michigan. He’s particularly adept at identifying good quarterback prospects. If scouts had been looking for the right things, they’d have known Brady was going to be a good NFL quarterback.Įrnie Accorsi is one of the best general managers in the history of professional sports. The kind of cop out that explains why teams, gifted with more information and scouting resources than ever before, are no better at evaluating quarterbacks now than they were 40 years ago. Ask any of the other coaches and general managers who passed on Brady and you’ll get a similar response. ![]() That’s former 49ers coach Steve Mariucci explaining why Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback in NFL history, fell to the 199th pick of the 2000 NFL draft. And resiliency, and all the things that are making him really great right now.” “We didn’t open up his chest and look at his heart. ![]()
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