The QB position

[BengalChris]

(04-28-2018, 08:56 PM)CornerBlitz Wrote: Okay so I'm sitting here and overall pretty content with the NFL Draft and how things went with one exception.  How do we not draft a QB (besides pick #249) in such a deep class?  Every team in our division drafted a QB even in the case of a Pittsburgh who has an elite one already.  

Smart teams plan for the future. Dalton is serviceable but are we willing to pay him 20-25 million per year and continue to stay average at the position?  I thought the Ravens made a brilliant move in drafting Lamar Jackson....have him learn behind Flacco for a few year and see where things end up 3 years from now. Do they really want to give Flacco 25 million a year with the way he's playing? The same question can be posed for Andy......

Every off season we sit here and argue about Andy. I think most of us can come to the consensus that he's not terrible or great and that for the contract he's worth it....but that shouldn't preclude you from attempting to solidify/upgrade the position for the future especially with the way the QBs are getting paid.

I have a different take on it. We could have traded up for Rudolph as it was obvious the Steelers set themselves to take him. We might have been planning to take Rudolph with one of those two consecutive picks, but unless Marvin confirms we were going to take Rudolph there, I have to believe the team wanted the players they ended up with.

As far as one of the top QBs, we just weren't in position to take one. And taking Jackson in the 1st would have been a colossal mistake for the Bengals.

Average Andy is entrenched.