Top 4 in draft so far thoughts

[*psychdoctor*]

(10-07-2019, 04:33 PM)Au165 Wrote: I'm telling you how you build a winning team today, not back in 1990. You add the QB last because you need a rookie deal for your QB to pay what should be the big pieces around them. If you add the QB first, by the time you get the pieces around them they are trending towards their big pay day and you start losing the pieces around them. This is how Steelers did it with Ben, How 49ers did it with Kap, how the Eagles won a SB (I know wentz was hurt for playoffs), how LA got to the SB, how Seattle won a super bowl, this is how Carolina made a SB, and so on. Unless you draft a sure fire hall of famer who is elite out the gate, which this class doesn't have, then you need to have most the team set when the QB gets there otherwise you have to really get creative with cap management, and that ain't us either.

The easy route you discuss is going QB first because that is the easiest for fans to stomach. Recent history shows us that isn't how you build a contender today. Hell you cold argue Cleveland did it right getting the core in place then bringing Baker in and finishing it off with vets. 

Ok I thought about it for a minute.  What you said makes sense.  QB are approaching 30 mil per year which is insane.  My only concern is that given this teams historic penchant for skilled player positions at CB, WR, TE that they will skip over the good DL and OL prospects in the upcoming drafts for rebuild.