Hypothetical 2021 #1 pick

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(08-05-2020, 12:57 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: I'm okay with not getting full value, if you get the right guy by drafting them both. 

A first overall nets a decent haul but never forget we got two first round picks out of Carson Palmer. 

If you draft Lawrence, they compete and you get the one that is the right fit after competition and then trade the other for 2 first round picks... that is still damn good value. Sure, you lose out on a 2nd round pick maybe in this exchange, but I'd rather lose the 2nd and know we have "the guy" that will lead us.

 Burrow or Lawrence, whoever wins it outright, but nothing would hurt worse, then having a chance at Lawrence, trading the pick and seeing Burrow be good, even above average but not getting the team to the Super Bowl, and seeing Lawrence lead another team to a title. 

As you said last year leading up to the draft, an elite QB can change a team, and when you get the chance to make sure you have one by taking the guy who set records and then a guy who has been hyped as the best prospect for years and letting them settle it on the field, how can you pass that up? 

Actually seeing Burrow go somewhere else and win a Super Bowl and pick up right where he left off in college while Trevor Lawrence became yet another QB who couldn’t get us over the hump would absolutely hurt worse. If Trevor has the better career so be it, but Joe is our guy, and it would be very hard to live with giving up on him prematurely. It could end being like Tampa giving up on Steve Young.

And far as the Palmer trade? Hue done ****** up with that one.