Maybe QB isn't our biggest problem?

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(10-12-2019, 09:07 AM)OswaldsLegacy Wrote: This is true.  We did draft Og and Fisher only to have them bust.  We drafted Price who hasn't been what we expected, and Williams got injured, so we don't know about him.

However, there are more OLine holes to fill than with QB.  If you fix the OLine, then the QB position improves.  If you fix the QB without fixing the OLine then both positions will continue to struggle.

Williams I think is a good OT.  Early showing of Thomas and Kindley are that they are both good OLine.  I don't know if Price is that bad or that the play around him is so bad that he looks worse, I also think experience will help him.

You mentioned the 5th year option... wouldn't it be better to be able to use that option on the 5 OLine players, rather than the 1 QB position?  When you do find the studs, you keep them.

Having your QB on a rookie contract gives you more cap space to address/retain players at other position groups.  Having a QB on a $20+ mil deal hamstrings rebuilding.  Having a mediocre QB on a $20+ mil deal is crippling.

There are more spots on your roster for OL than QB, so it makes sense to spend your 1st round pick on a QB you're sold on and draft multiple OL and see who you hit on.  At least that way, you have cheap depth on the OL and aren't bringing in has been vets in FA to fill out your depth chart.

Every player on the team is dependent on and feeds off the others.  There are 2 types of QB's out there, ones that up the level of play of the guys around them and ones that have their level of play upped by the guys around them.  Andy is sadly the latter.  We've been trying to build the perfect roster around him for almost a decade and it hasn't worked.  Why continue with a failed experiment?  How many teams are winning SB's with mediocre QB"s these days?  Not many, I can tell you that.