Starting to Think We Go QB Early

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(04-11-2019, 12:54 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 1.  Patrick Mahomes is not the only QB taken in the first round recently.

2.  What the Chiefs did when drafting Mahomes is so rare that you might as well argue we should wait to draft a QB in the sixth round because that worked for the Patriots.

I'll admit everyone has "recency-fever" over Mahommes, but I'm not sure a 1st round QB being good is really all that mind-blowing.  In that draft alone I'd say all 3 first round QBs in Mahommes, Trubisky, and Watson all have their respective teams feeling pretty secure.  Not sure I'd compare a good first round QB to getting the GOAT from the 6th.

Anyways, since we are on a whole Dalton vs Palmer thing...even with the notion that the Steelers and Ravens had super awesome D's while he was here, I just feel like (yeah, I didn't look it up yet) he had a few more seasons in the top tier of QBs than Dalton.  I think Dalton is a lot better than people give him credit for, but as nice as making the playoffs 5  years in a row goes, he never struck me as a guy who was vying for MVP votes or knocking on the top-tier with the other QBs.

I guess it depends on the metric by which they are judged, but Palmer, Boomer, and Anderson were all top 3 QBs at one time or another (I think) and Dalton was really only that high in the injury shortened 2015.  Or I could be wrong.