(02-02-2018, 08:16 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(02-02-2018, 02:15 AM)I\m Upper Wrote: Best case scenario Bortles takes another step and then becomes very expensive himself after one year and we're in the exact same situation we would be in with Cousins. Best is not actually any better. Any other scenario is worse. There isn't a scenario that's better than just signing Cousins now. (Ok fine there is one, we draft a QB who 28 teams pass on at least once who in year two immediately becomes a franchise QB capable of cheaply leading a team to a super bowl...obviously very very unlikely).

Yeah. Drafting a QB as good as - or better than Bortles is probably impossible. It would be like landing a pro bowl DE in the third or a second team all-pro LB in the fifth. 
Probably shouldn't even try, huh? 

Just draft a damn QB. 

If he's no good, draft another one next year.

And what if we end up like the Jets and get a bunch of Geno Smith's, Hackenburg, Petty, etc. We never find a QB solution and we waste this defense?

It's a big gamble hoping Blake takes another step and/or we can draft a QB that ends up being the guy.

This year was the perfect storm. We lost ARob, but no major injuries outside of that all year. Played the 25th ranked schedule in the season and two division rivals lost their QBs for the season.

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