(05-15-2018, 12:46 PM)TurndownforWatt Wrote:

(05-15-2018, 11:04 AM)pirkster Wrote: That's why you have to be rational when you're searching for one.

You don't draft Brady in the first round.  You draft him in the sixth round, where the risk meets value.  No QB comes with a warranty.

Desperate moves kill franchises.

O'brien him self knows... his GM signed Osweiller without even bringing him in for a visit.

You can spike your franchise when you make desperation moves.  The pressure is always there to find a QB, and the franchise suffers if that pressure negatively affects decision making.  That's true of pressure in all aspects of life and life decisions as well.

Brady would've been a first overall pick in a do over..your're talking about a exception to the rule.

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"Do-overs" and hindsight are fool's errands.

You never make a desperate move for a QB.  Never.  Again, you measure risk and reward and do not pay a penny more.  Draft, develop, repeat.  Great QBs are drafted and developed, they aren't created by Free Agency spending.

Desperation is how franchises implode - desperation that leads to poor decisions.

And again... same goes for life decisions.  Stacking poor decisions on poor decisions results in perpetual suffering.  Good decisions made consistently result in long term success.  Some can't wait long enough for success to gain momentum, so they cut themselves off at the knees and never succeed.  They chase short term "gains" that end up setting themselves back in the long run.

I don't know if you were around here (or there, if you consider the board has since moved from the jaguars site,) but there were several posters here who wanted us to take Geno Smith with our first rounder.  So... no, O'brien.  You CAN pay too high a price for a "franchise" QB.

It's not about the cost, it's about the quality of decision making.

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