QB Index - Week 1

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(09-10-2021, 12:00 PM)jj22 Wrote: So I guess the argument that Herbert should have been the pick is gaining steam....

1st overall pick QBs have a hard road ahead of them, because it'll always be "known" that the team that picked you "could have taken any of the other QBs in your class and received a haul of picks in the process."

Miami floated the idea of trading up to 3 1st round picks to trade up to take Burrow and we went with Burrow.  I clearly don't think we were stupid to turn that down, but I also realize that once you turn that down you are upping the pressure on the QB you take and enabling the world to slam your choice if any other QB is better than or even close to the guy you took in terms of production.  It ain't fair, but life ain't fair.

Burrow has to be the best QB in his class, and in addition to that he has to be better than every other QB in his class plus what people would dream three 1st round picks could garner.  It's a quite a feat to prove yourself better than a scenario people can only imagine, because people imagine some pretty lofty things.