Quote:I am probbley one of the few here, but I think getting the number one pick is to much of a risk.  If you get a player any postion   espailley     who won nationtial tittles in college he doesn't have much to prove. You get the later picks who have lots to prove that person could be the next tom brady.  I still say we have us our qb of the furture for some reason jags refuse to play him.   If matt scout was to start the games would get closer,and we would start winning as we build montuem for next year,and so on. if I recall the last few years number 1 picks have been a bust except  a few,but majority of them have been busts.

The risk of a number 1 pick was the huge amount of money being paid upfront to an unproven player, and the financial hole a franchise has created should such number 1 player not work out.  With the recent rookie wage scale, this risk has been eliminated.  There is always risk a player chosen in the draft does not work out.  However, analytically proven, the higher the draft pick, the greater odds that the pick is successful.  Your Brady reference to your point is a rarity, not the norm.

 

As a practice squad player, Matt Scott gets to practice with the Jags and develop.  However, he is technically a free agent that any team in the league can sign today for minimum wage and without any compensation to the Jags.  As it is midway through the season and he has not been picked up be some other team, I would not hold out much hope that he can come in this year and do anything of value.  Young QBs are coveted by all teams, if there is a belief such a QB is any good.      

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