I'm glad we got the both of best worlds -- drafted the QB, and filled the roster with talent.  This WR class was extraordinarily deep.  We managed to get two guys who probably would have been fringe first rounders in last year's draft.  Marqise Lee might have even been a Top 10 pick.   And we got it in the second round.

 

What Caldwell does is great -- because he doesn't just look at what's available now, but what will be available later.  Which is why I think he'd never take Sammy Watkins at 3 in this draft.

 

If he does it well, and his scouting is good, I think we're in for some good years under Caldwell.  Because looking at the whole picture, rather than just part of it is a failing of many General Managers in the league.  Again, you have to do it right - but if you do, the rewards will come.  Dave said that Bortles was the best QB of the ones he expects to come out NEXT year as well.  And passing on a QB last year says to me that he feels Blake is the best QB to come out between 2013 and 2015.  

 

Dave had his pick of the litter, which I felt was important.  Because we've rarely had our pick of the litter with QB's.  Two QB's were gone when Gabbert was picked.  Though I think Gene would have picked Gabbert at 1.  Which would have made most of us groan at the thought of it, though if we were picking 1, then we'd probably at the very least still have had our second rounder.  Then again, he probably wouldn't have done much with that anyway.

 

I don't think it was "QB or Bust" this year.  But I think Caldwell looked at next year, last year, and this year, and saw that what's available now, what will be available next year, and what was available last year, that the best chance was now.  Everyone always talks about how next year's crop looks better.  Dave didn't see it that way.  Next year always looks better unless an Andrew Luck comes out.  And then when it comes, the next year looks better, and the last year doesn't look so bad.  Next year's QB class will look entirely different than it looks right now.  Last year at this time, Tajh Boyd was in discussion for being the top QB.  He was a 6th round pick.  Two years ago... Matt Barkley was considered the consensus top QB for 2013.  He lasted until the 4th.  I think the idea that the media is always 3 steps behind the real scouts says that scouts are always scouting players.  The perception of those guys now, is probably nowhere close to where they are in the eyes of the scouts.  Come next year at draft time, the gap will close, and everyone will be shocked to see the QB's that drop drop, when scouts were already on that page.

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