(10-12-2020, 12:24 PM)SamusAranX Wrote:

(10-12-2020, 11:46 AM)Corriewf Wrote: Yeah for sure we need better coaching staff. At some point though we have to risk it and try and go for an elite QB talent. It’s always going to be a risk and probably more often than not you won’t hit, but at some point we will. You HAVE to take some risk if you want to be a winning franchise and I think we have done that with Minshew. If you’re playing conservative you don’t ship off Foles for an unproven 6th round pick, but we did and I’m glad we did. 

I won’t pretend to be a college scout expert and can’t say whether this QB class is better than the last, but if you are picking in the top 5, you probably have not found your elite QB talent yet.

That's the thing; we have "risked it all" and then continually drafted to try and make the team fit the QB (and hence, retroactively justify the pick) multiple times:

Leftwich in 2003 
Gabbert in 2011
Bortles in 2014

We are 0-3 on high first round QB's. 

It's a crapshoot, and what's worse, it can muck the waters for future drafts. 

I'm not saying don't draft a QB at all next year; but don't reach because you need one, because at his floor, Minshew is a good placeholder who can deliver some wins with other talent on the field. That's not a bad floor to be at, frankly.