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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
In that era, you had to be drafting high or willing to mortgage your future to move up.
When Baltimore was picking high, who did they have access to?
Chad Pennington.
Patrick Ramsey.
They moved up to 20 to choose between Kyle Boller and Rex Grossman.
Pittsburgh happened to be picking high in one of the best Top 3 QB drafts in recent memory.
Had they been picking later, Cowher likely never wins a SB.
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So why are you holding that against Cowher? Who cares how he got the QB, all that matters is that he recognized his need for one, identified the one he wanted and drafted him.
It's not like it was some Belichick/Brady situation.