Quote:With the dust settling, the extent of Arians’ deception is becoming more clear; G.M. Steve Keim told Adam Schein of SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio on Friday that the Cardinals were focused on one guy in the first round with the thought that he could become a franchise quarterback. But he was long gone by the time the birds were on the board.


“Well, you know, we liked Blake Bortles a lot,” Keim said. “We thought, when you looked at his size, his athleticism, his ability to improvise. He doesn’t have quite the arm strength that Ben Roethlisberger had but he has some of the same skill set, naturally with his foot speed and athleticism to get out of the pocket and make plays with his feet, as well as stand tall in the pocket and make some of the throws down the field. And he’s a guy, being a junior coming out, he still had some developing to do as well but we think his upside is pretty big.”

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://m.nbcsports.com/content/keim-admits-cardinals-liked-bortles'>http://m.nbcsports.com/content/keim-admits-cardinals-liked-bortles</a>

Quote:"We're all looking for franchise quarterbacks, young franchise quarterbacks, but you have to be convinced to take one in the first round that this is the guy," Keim said. "In my opinion, there was one guy we were focused on in the first round that we thought was a franchise quarterback ... We liked Blake Bortles a lot, when you looked at his size, his athleticism, his ability to improvise."

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2014/5/17/5726086/blake-bortles-arizona-cardinals-steve-keim-best-qb'>http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2014/5/17/5726086/blake-bortles-arizona-cardinals-steve-keim-best-qb</a>


More and more evidence that we may have gotten the only true franchise QB in this draft.

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