Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan acknowledged that he began watching game film of college quarterbacks at the midseason point of the NFL season.
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for Rex Grossman, who is tied for the league lead with 24 turnovers in 12 starts.
"I've probably already looked at 10 or 15 of them," Shanahan told the Washington Times. "I'll take a half hour a day early in the morning — the tapes are made up. I'll take a look at maybe 75, 80 plays of just a guy throwing the football in game situations, and so that's most of the passes — or at least the good passes — during the season just so I get a feel for the guy.
"You've got names; sometimes you can't relate to how a guy is playing because you hear a lot about it on TV, but a lot of it's hype and not evaluation. So you like to go back and kind of put the play with the name."
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