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I've just returned from the NFL's great luncheon at The Rainbow Room, where I had the accidental pleasure of sharing a table with people from Hummer, Players, Inc., and one gentleman who lives in Washington, DC and who works for Creative Artists Agency, or CAA.
CAA represents Brady Quinn.
As we were listening to Sterling Sharp entertain the audience, the CAA man who's name I am not going to drop was hurredly working his Blackburry. I asked what was going on and if it involved Brady Quinn. He confirmed that it did. "This is great, he said without directly spilling the beans, except that Mike Lynch of Visa may or may not like it. It harms our deal if he (Brady Quinn) were to go to the Browns." By this, he means CAA's endorsement deal with Cleveland and for Brady Quinn.
So, I asked. "Does this mean the Raiders are going to pick Brady Quinn first?" I asked.
"It looks that way," he said. But we'll see what happens. Then he got up from his chair and said "That's what I'm going to check on now."
So the bottom line is that CAA's trying to seal a deal with the Oakland Raiders, who are ready to sign Brady Quinn as their number one pick. It all adds up because:
1) Ja Marcus Russell said he'd not got a call from the Oakland Raiders.
2) Brady Quinn -- this is in the video -- mentioned that he and his agents had talked with the Raiders "but I can't talk about details," Quinn said.
3) Brady Quinn said that the Raiders new offense is very much like the Notre Dame system, meaning he could step right in. This is also in the video on this blog.
So, unless they can't work out the contract, Brady Quinn will become an Oakland Raider.
We'll know officially tommorrow, but will keep the updates coming.
This is good for CAA, because they lost Matt Leinart.
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