Mike Brown’s “Bell Cow Quarterback”

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(10-13-2019, 09:46 PM)jj22 Wrote: We'd have to hit on all 7 picks.

It's just not realistic to fix this thing in one year.

So the plan is to bring a franchise QB into this mess. With all the aging vets over 30 on 3rd contracts, and a coach who is trying to establish a winning system.

My fear is we get the QB and by the time the rest of the holes are filled it's 4 years down the line with 4-12/6-10 seasons that have fans calling for is backup to start.

People aren't patient enough for a rebuild. They'll find someone to blame, and it's typically the HC and/or QB. We need a run of top 5 picks, especially if the FO isn't going to stockpile picks for multiple 1st round picks in the next couple drafts.

Our best bet for that may be sticking with Dalton another year and using that 1st or 2nd overall pick to get extra picks to plug some of these holes and build the team/foundation/system then plug in the QB.

With that said I'd understand/expect a qb pick with the top 2 picks.

You draft QBs for the next decade, not the next year.

In an ideal world, you only have a top 5 pick once every ~10 years in the NFL. If you're given an opportunity at an elite level QB, especially when you have a veteran on the last year of his contract and a decent young back up, you take it.

You don't have to fix the whole team in 1 year and you don't need to even play the new QB in his rookie year.

You can draft guards and tackles in the 2nd and 3rd round and they will be improvements over what we have now (It's hard not to be an improvement over Andre Smith, Bobby Hart and John Jerry) but the same can't really be said about QBs. 

Of the 32 starting QBs in the NFL, 22 are first rounders, 15 of which are top 10 picks. And 1 had their top 10 pick unexpectedly retire (Indy) and another has a top 15 pick waiting in the wings (Washington). The exceptions being Dak Prescott, Andy Dalton, Gardner Minshew (we'll see if he lasts), Jacoby Brissett, Kirk Cousins, Jimmy G, Colt McCoy (Haskins will replace soon), Derek Carr, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson. The point being, QBs are one of the only positions where you basically only find elite players in the first round with a hand full of exceptions. So when you are given the option to get an elite one, I say you take it, regardless of what the rest of your team looks like (assuming you do need a QB, which we do.)