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[Murdock2420]

(02-02-2020, 09:21 PM)Kingslayer Wrote: I respectfully disagree.  

Yes, Burrow alone will not fix the team, however he has a great chance of being the most important and hardest to find part of fixing said team.

To your point about the 50-50 shot.  You are correct that every first rounder is a coin flip, however not every first rounder is a possible game changing, franchise QB.  For instance, Kansas City.  They traded up and took a shot on Patrick Mahomes.  They saw him as a franchise QB and now the Chiefs are transformed into a Super Bowl contender, (currently winning the Super Bowl 7-3) .  Baltimore saw something in Lamar Jackson, and traded up to get him.  They flushed the toilet with a Super Bowl winning QB and built around Lamar Jackson.  MVP.  

My point is, a couple first round picks in the mid teens or 20's are not going to make much of a difference.  

A franchise QB will make all the difference and you have to roll the dice, take him , use free agency and the draft to build around him.  

Every other position can be improved on via the draft and free agency without breaking the bank.  You have ONE shot at drafting a franchise QB and if you pass on him for a QB who is made of glass and can't even walk to the podium on draft day along with a couple maybe, iffy , boring late round picks you are seriously gambling.  A bet I would not make

Both of your examples traded up once they had a complete team.

That is the correct way to go about it.

Trade back, build a team, then when you are a QB away, move up and get him like KC and Baltimore. 

Also, look at where San Fran found their guy after building in the draft...a trade.

Look at the Titans, who swapped out of the first overall with the Rams. Rams got Goff and then have taken a step back. The Titans signed a guy to fill in (Tannehill) while using all the draft capital from the Rams to build a playoff team. Now, the Titans can move up, get a QB and they are a Super Bowl contender.

Why draft a guy and then let him sit here and lose and get hammered behind a bad O-line and get...dare I say it Bengalized. Build a team, then plug in a QB.