“When Anquan came out in the draft, he was the subject of a lot of discussion in our war room. Not too many times do you get a chance to recover from a mistake. I think I made a mistake in that draft, to worry more about measurables than about the football player. And what Anquan is, is a football player.”
Ozzie Newsome in 2010, after trading for Anquan Boldin.
I always thought this quote was a strange one.
Boldin came out in the 2003 NFL Draft, but in 2010 you got, with the quote above, a public admission of the mistake, after Ozzie traded for Boldin to right that wrong as he saw it.