The Titans drafted Vince Young with the 3rd pick in the draft and threw him out there with awful mechanics.    He won NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2006.   Must have been a great pick, right?    No.  Who cares.  Winning the Offensive Rookie of the Year  It was completely  meaningless and an empty achievement that ultimately accomplished nothing.     Not only is he not with the Titans anymore, he can't even hold a job in the league because his mechanics are still so horrendous.  

 

 

Some guys can't see the forrest from the trees.  They think the ultimate goal is to get a guy who wins the Rookie of the Year or ends up on the All Rookie Team, and that alone ultimately makes a great pick.    That's not what ultimately makes a great pick.  The ultimate  goal is to get a guy who's going to have his jersey retired in front of your fans in your home stadium 15-20 years down the road.   I don't care if Bortles isnt' starting until Year 4, if he ultimately has his jersey hanging from the stadium rafters, he was every bit of the 3rd pick in the draft.    I don't give a flip about starting rookies in Week 1.    Plugging roster holes with  bodies is not  what the draft is for.  The Jags have $30 million in available cap space to just plug holes with a warm body for Week 1.   The draft, particularly the high end of the draft, is about acquiring the elite, high end talent you can't obtain through any other means.  You can find any other position on the open market.  First ballot  Hall of Famers like DeMarcus Ware and Darelle Revis were available on the open market this year.     The Peyton Mannings and Drew Brees only see the open market once every blue moon, and you're going to be competing against half the league to sign them.   If you ever have a chance to draft a QB you think could eventually become that kind of QB, you have to pull the trigger.   There's only about 5-7 of them walking the earth at any particularly moment in time.   Who knows when you'll have another opportunity to get one.   

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