Should the Bengals be shopping for backup QB?

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(08-15-2023, 09:15 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Sorry, not quite making the connection between backups behind Favre and what the Packers attained for Rodgers having to do with the Bengals not having a competent looking backup QB behind Joe Burrow.  You may be onto something, but you're going to have to do a little more leg work, in order to make it cohesive.

Exactly.

How about:

- Ty Detmer
- Doug Pederson (didn't draft, but developed him)
- Jay Barker
- Kyle Wachholtz
- Ron McAda
- Aaron Brooks
- Craig Nall
- Ingle Martin
- Brian Brohm (in the 2nd round!)
- BJ Coleman
- Brett Hundley

How about all of those guys? The drafting pretty much stopped when McCarthy came onboard (Brohm and on), but just look at the waste of draft picks on QBs that didn't amount to anything: if this strategy works for 2/10 times, it is absolutely NOT worth it (and while Brooks was good, he was released, so he doesn't fall under the Brunell/Hasselbeck sitch).

To put in perspective, this is what we did in that same time period ('93 to recent):

- John Walsh
- Scott Covington
- Casey Bramlet
- Jeff Rowe
- Macaroni

And one of those (Macaroni) at least started and won games for us (in spite of him, actually lol). So yes, this whole, "draft a QB to develop and trade," almost NEVER works out, thus I wouldn't look to GB as the model on this.