But to hear the commentary, you’d think that they [Chase Daniel and Graham Harrell] had engineered their on-field success — both in terms of passing statistics but also by winning so much they became minor on-campus legends — for the sole purpose of tricking gullible scouts and general managers into drafting them. It was as if what they did was offensive — shame on you for throwing so many touchdowns, don’t you know you are too short and your arm is too weak? And of course, their college coaches, Gary Pinkel and Mike Leach, were complicit in the nasty plot to deceive the N.F.L. by employing pass-happy schemes that let them upset more talented teams. Sometimes it seems as if N.F.L. employees prefer bad college coaches to good ones, because if a player excels under a bad coach he must be good, while if he succeeds under a good one — like Daniel and Harrell — that tells you nothing, because everyone has success under them.