(10-31-2018, 01:18 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(10-31-2018, 01:10 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: If drafting is a crapshoot, shouldn't GM's technically keep their jobs forever? What is the threshold of accountability?

I didn't saying drafting every position is a crapshoot (although it kind of is sometimes) but just the QB position.

Just go back and look at so many QBs drafted in the 1st round. RG3 was drafted #2 but some thought he would be better than Luck. Was it a bad choice to draft him or did it just not work out? A lot of people had Gabbert over Newton. He clearly didn't work out but could things have been different had he been drafted else where?

Drafting a QB has so many factors into it that's incredibly hard to quantify. Parcells tried to do it but at one point his surefire QB in a draft was Landry Jones. If Brady had no been drafted by the Pats, would anyone even know who he is?

GMs are almost always tied to their QB (whether that's fair or not) and drafting a QB seems impossible sometimes.

I can agree with a lot of that, but this franchise seems to have drafted their last 2 franchise QB's based on intangibles and not so much tangibles. Bortles was even quoted saying he wasn't a natural thrower of the football. Even in year 5, Bortles still looks like his UCF tape, so I am not sure why anyone is actually surprised.

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