Mike Brown’s “Bell Cow Quarterback”

[Nicomo Cosca]

(10-13-2019, 10:33 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: 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.)

Well said.