(12-20-2020, 09:47 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(12-20-2020, 09:21 PM)enigma Wrote: How you grade a player should not be reliant upon "if he's there or not when we are picking".

You start ranking from #1 downwards...

Lawrence has always been the best player and it will remain that way - regardless of who is picking #1.

Does it really matter? If we stay at #1 and we take Lawrence, I'll be thrilled. If we fall back to #2 and we take Wilson, I'll be thrilled. Both are franchise QB's that I have ranked so closely that they are almost interchangeable. I just wanna stay at #1, because I don't trust this team to steer clear of Fields at #2. I'm tired of getting let down by this franchise. After 25 years of constant disappointments, we deserve a moral victory.

We deserve more than mere "moral victories."

"Moral victories" are like that win over the Colts at the end of 2011, so this team could learn how to win and take that momentum into 2012, while the Colts never experienced the value of that moral loss and had to suffer the next 7 or so years with that stiff by the name of Andrew Luck.

We deserve the number one overall pick in 2021 and all of the power that it brings to the team. 

Power when it comes to the ability to pick the best overall player in the draft.

Power when it comes to the ability to command a huge trade (though I would not trade the pick at all if we have the number one pick and Lawrence is in the draft and he has not stated he does not want to play for the Jaguars).  Barring anything like Lawrence pulling an Elway or Eli Manning, there is no way I deal that pick.  I don't even listen politely to any other GM making inquiry into the trade for that pick.

Power to give the team an entire fan base legitimate hope.  Power to give the ticket sales guy the possibility to see a major spike in ticket sales.

Power to command their choice of GMs and coaches to come here.  With the #1 overall pick, the ton of draft choices and cap space, we'll pretty much have our choice of all available coaching candidates.  Most likely we won't have to settle for second and third tier candidates.

Power to help lure top tier free agents to come here, with the chance to play with Lawrence.

Also, power to see NFN and ESPN's heads explode during their draft coverage, as they decide which of their common practices wins out:  Hyping the #1 overall pick, especially if he's supposedly the best QB prospect to come out since Andrew Luck, or cutting to commercial when the team with the #1 overall pick-Jacksonville- is on the clock?

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