(03-23-2020, 04:46 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-23-2020, 04:32 PM)PF* Wrote: The guy you go with, say Minshew in this case, is subject to anything happening to him as well and then where are you? Back to square one.

From a financial perspective, it is probably a luxury to have a guy like GM on a 6th rounders contract for the next 3 years as you could pair him with a 1st rounder making your total QB outlay manageable. Let the two of them compete for the next 3 years and got with the better guy. If they both excel, then turn one into draft capital and repeat the cycle.

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We are incomplete agreement.

But your last point raises a sub point here about the way positively or negatively, drafts tend to reverberate on or for a franchise.

When a team gets a pick (especially an early pick) wrong, teams will often spend pick after pick trying to correct that error-often unsuccessfully.  The Soward pick turned into picks spent on Reggie Williams, matt Jones, and ultimately Justin Blackmon.  

When a team gets a pick right, it pays off handsomely in so many different ways.  Getting 4th round pick Rob Johnson right in 1995 turned into Fred Taylor and Tavian Banks in 1998.  Getting the Jalen Ramsey pick right gave us best ever CB play for this team while he was here, and two extra first round picks and a 4th round pick.

If we doubled (or tripled)  up at QB and good good to great quality with all three picks, we'd have draft flexibility for years.  Even if we got only one stud QB of the three, our franchise would be so much better for it.

To wit: NE when they had Jimmy G riding the pine. 

However, does a first round pick used on another QB deny Minshew the top talent he needs to succeed? Given our draft capital, that could be construed as a rhetorical question. But what if a prize offensive player falls in our lap, do we still go with the depth at QB route? A little BPA vs. Need scenario, perhaps.

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