08-27-2015, 04:09 PM
(08-27-2015, 02:42 PM)fredtoast Wrote: A lot of crazy stuff is thrown around among fans at draft time. But no team in the league is going to take a chance on a 2nd round QB to replace a guy who had never missed the playoffs and was coming off a division championship year where he finished 3rd in tds, 7th in yards, and 15th in Passer Rating.
After 2013 would have been a tough time to replace Andy, but I don't think it would have killed anyone if we just took the gamble, didn't give him an extension, drafted Bridgewater, and then see what happens from there. I can completely understand why things happened the way they did though, most teams absolutely do extend their current QB and call it a day, I get that. Zerker just mentioned that if there was a year where we could have had a legitimate replacement, it would have likely been last offseason. You usually don't see top QBs in free agency and you usually don't see top prospects outside of the top 10 in the draft.
Not even a slam against Andy, but Teddy looked like a great prospect, and despite a couple of high volume stats, let's not pretend that Andy looked like a top QB after 2013. He still looked pretty average in a lot of games and wasn't considered a top guy by anyone outside of a couple nutbags on the old board.
