QB #2

[BengalChris]

(04-15-2018, 12:23 PM)grampahol Wrote: Kind of doubt that drafting a QB2 high in the draft is a particularly good strategy unless they have some serious doubts about QB1.. I just don't see them holding any strong doubts about Dalton. They seem very confident in Dalton and their ability to keep him after his contact expires whenever that is .
With other positions of need the top few picks will go to them and not QB2..
How many times has it been noted that if your starting QB goes down the backup is only there to play mop up duty until the following season ? In the case of Foles and Keenum they were backups for a reason and few people expected them to start during the regular season much less the post season. I'm sure that had you taken a poll of the people who expected Foles to be the winning QB in the super bowl at the start of last season you might have found 1 person, but certainly not a lot..
I'm expecting them to draft a QB late, but none in the first 3 rounds.. I'm thinking maybe the 5th if that.  

That is not true for teams who want to win a SB. Too many examples of decent backups winning SBs to ignore the comment. Foles was a starter one year in Phili and he out played Dalton that year. Keenum wasn't bad to start with and the Vikings had two 1st rounder QBs on the roster to boot. The Dolphin's 17-0 season was a season where most of those games were won by the backup QB.

For Mikey Brown though, well, it probably is true.