Draft Day (I) (2014)

Jennifer Garner: Ali

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Quotes 

• Ali : How is it that the ultimate prize in the most macho sport ever invented is a piece of jewelry?

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : Can we talk football? Just football for thirty seconds?

  Ali : We can always talk football.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : [on the phone with his mother]  You're on Twitter?

  Barb Weaver : You're not?

  Coach Penn : [enters with flaming papers in his hand]  I'm sorry, Sonny, is this a bad time?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : I gotta go, Mom!

  [hangs up] 

  Coach Penn : This is the draft analysis we've all been working on for the last two weeks...

  [throws the burning pages onto the desk] 

  Rick the Intern : [background]  Fire! Ali, fire! ALI, FIRE!

  Ali : I'm coming!

  [enters with a fire extinguisher and puts out the fire] 

  Ali : Can I get you gentlemen some coffee?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Love some.

  Coach Penn : Light and sweet, honey, thanks.

  Ali : Yeah, I'm not getting you idiots anything.

  [walks out] 

  Coach Penn : I like her.

• Ali : You don't think Callahan's legit?

  Coach Penn : I think Callahan might be the best prospect in the draft. But I hate rookie quarterbacks. They're stupid and they're scared.

  Ali : Not the good ones.

  Coach Penn : We already got a good one. His name is Brian Drew. He can run my offense like a pro. So I'm trying to figure out why I gotta give away the future of the franchise and then sit around trying to teach some rookie, I don't know, everything, you know? I'm talking shifts, plays, protections, snap counts, alerts, check-with-me's, Double X, jet, ice cream, 36, counter naked waggle at 16-9 Tennesse Free. Know what I'm saying?

  Ali : Don't patronize me. You know I know what you're saying. I dedicated my life to this sport, just like you.

• Ali : You picked Vontae. Wow.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Three first-round picks to get the guy I could have gotten all along.

  [chuckling] 

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Jesus, I used to think I was good at this.

  Ali : Well, that remains to be seen. Sometimes the correct path is the tortured one. It's a gift, Sonny. You see things other people don't see. It's one of the things... it's one of the things I love about you.

• Ali : [advising Sonny]  There's no such thing as a sure thing. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is what you think.

• Rick the Intern : I have Adam Schefter from ESPN on the line. He heard a rumor.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Oh, great. Tell Schefter to stick his rumor up his...

  Ali : Sonny.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : I don't like what's happening between us. Seeing you all day walk the other way, watching you drive away this morning, it's killing me. Look, I know I've disappointed you. And maybe, um... maybe that's not even a strong enough word. If I... if I didn't handle, if I didn't have the right words that you needed to hear, then I'm...

  Ali : Look, Sonny, whoa, you-you don't... you don't need to do this.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Let me finish. Men are supposed to step up. And in the middle of everything that's going on, I didn't get it right, all right? I didn't get all gooey. I didn't jump up and want to know what color to paint the bedroom, you know, blue or pink. And I wish I was one of those kind of guys that know how to make the wallpaper line up; the Home Depot dads-of-the-year types that make the rest of us look like assholes.

  Ali : Those guys are not the reason you look like an asshole.

• Coach Penn : Are you as jacked as everyone else around here about getting the first pick?

  Ali : I don't really get jacked. I just manage the cap.

  Coach Penn : Uh-huh. How does a girl like you get in this game, anyway?

  Ali : Law school.

  Coach Penn : Lawyer. So you don't get excited about anything.

  Ali : If I do my job and we haven't spent more than $125 million on players by the time the season starts, I get excited.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : My dad's doctors told him that the stress of coaching was gonna kill him, so... of course, he refused to retire. So now I have a choice. The time he has left at home with my mother, or another year on the... another year on the sidelines, where maybe he drops dead on national television. So what do you do? I gave in to my mom and I fired him.

  Ali : How come you never told me that before?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : You know, there's already so many versions of what happened that it's not really something I love talking about.

  Ali : You never told him? You just... you let him believe that his only son would just fire him?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : That's how we do things in my family.

  Ali : Sonny.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : And all I ever wanted to do was just get him a ring.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : There's a deal on the table from Buffalo.

  Ali : I heard. What's the war room think?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Split. Penn wants me to do it.

  Ali : But you don't?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : I don't.

  Ali : Why?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Because I know, in my heart and my gut, that if I make this trade with Buffalo, then I don't get to make a pick this year. All I get back are future draft picks for the guy that Molina brings in to replace me. I've been here two years, Ali. Two years. I've never gotten a chance to see what a team I put together can do out there. First year, it's my dad's team. Last year, Drew goes down before I can see what we had. Then I get stuck with Penn, who I'm still trying to figure out how to work with. This is finally supposed to be my season. I just want the team that I want. One time.

  Ali : So why are you bugging me if you already know?

• Ali : [Sonny leads her back into the supply closet]  So?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : So, what do you want?

  Ali : Honestly...

  [sighing] 

  Ali : I don't want to be a secret.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Okay. Let's not be a secret.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : Remember the '89 Super Bowl?

  Ali : 49ers/Bengals. Niners down by three, 3:20 left in the game. 93-yard winning drive, Taylor beats the weak safety for a ten-yard TD.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : Yeah, but before the drive. Joe Montana's in the huddle, right? And unbelievably, somehow spots the actor John Candy in the stands. He points at him and asks the guys in the huddle "Hey, isn't that... isn't that John Candy?" They couldn't believe the balls on him. To be that calm, in that game, at that moment. His guys instantly relax, they march, um...

  Ali : 93 yards.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : 93 yards. Montana throws a little slant to Taylor. 49ers win the Super Bowl.

  Ali : Great game.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : It was a great game.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : Whoever thought it meant that much to him? Naming a simple practice field in his honor. God, he took... took pride in the weirdest things.

  Ali : He was your father, Sonny. What was it? Why... why did you hate him so much?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : I didn't hate my father. I di... you know what, everyone always gives me grief for firing my father.

  Ali : Well, you did. I was here that day.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : It was my mother.

  Ali : What?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : It was my mother. Look, don't get me wrong. I'm the one who fired him. But it was my mother who asked me to do it.

• Sonny Weaver Jr. : Okay. Screw it! No more offer. It's off the table, Tom. I'm taking Callahan.

  Tom Michaels : Whoa, whoa, no, no. Wait, wait! All right. You have a deal. I'll give you your picks. We have a deal.

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : [urging his scouts to be silent, he mutes the call]  What else do we need?

  Ali : Special teams. Putney! Get Putney!

  Thompson : [the scouts all mutter in agreement]  David Putney.

  Coach Penn : Yeah. Putney.

  Tom Michaels : Hello? Sonny?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : [unmuting the call]  I'm sorry, that deal's now off the table.

  Tom Michaels : What?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : We live in a different world than we did just thirty seconds ago.

  Tom Michaels : What? What do you want now?

  Sonny Weaver Jr. : I want my picks back, and I want David Putney. I need a punt returner.

  Tom Michaels : Where the hell'd that come from?