ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn left the University of Connecticut years earlier and worked his way up through the New England Patriots organization when he reappeared on the Huskies campus as a scout.
He reunited with Randy Edsall there and later at Maryland as Quinn tried to find players for the Patriots and one thing stuck out to Edsall: Quinn’s questions, specifically “What kind of guy is he?”
“Just some probing questions, little subtleties that you ask,” Edsall told ESPN.com recently, prior to the Lions hiring Edsall. “What about if this kid was in this situation, what do you think he would do?