(01-06-2019, 01:22 PM)Caldrac Wrote: I think you're right about the QB class being stronger in a year or two from now. As much as I like Haskins. I really think the Giants are going to take him ahead of us. And I can't see this staff rolling the dice with a rookie QB knowing they'll be starring down the barrel of unemployment in 2019 if everything goes to hell.

I could see us using a combination of those 3rd RD picks to trade for either Foles, Mullins or possibly Manning and Taylor (unless he's a free agent?). I would rather them focus on beefing up the offensive line and bolstering the skill positions some more on offense and look to the future in Fromm or Tua if they have to give up the farm to land Haskins. I wouldn't be opposed to them drafting a guy like Finley or Grier on day two as well.

Just to have added insurance. But it's a major, major concern going into 2019. Not having a QB in the NFL is terrifying. We don't even have a guy that can register in the top half of the NFL at the moment. Could be in for a long, long 2019 campaign.

Perfect scenario though. We don't have to move up at all. We just luck out and land Haskins with the 7th overall pick and the teams in front of us go in a different direction at the QB position. But IMHO, once the combine starts rolling and teams actually get to sit down with Haskins and pick his brain for his football I.Q. He'll end up being a top five pick after a team moves up to get him.

Missing at QB puts a team in a very bad spot.

That is the lesson we have learned from missing on BL, Gabbert, and now Bortles.

We always seem to be a year or two off from the great QBs.

In 2003, we picked BL, and as a result, bypassed Big Ben in 2004 and Rogers in 2005.

In 2011 we picked Gabbert, and bypassed J.J. Watt, Robert Quinn, Mike Pouncey, Ryan Kerrigan and Nate Solder that year, and missing out on Luck in 2012.

In 2014, we picked Bortles, and as a result, bypassed Watson and Mahomes in 2017.

We aren't desperate to draft a QB.

We are desperate to draft the right QB.

That makes the decision particularly tough.

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