(05-21-2020, 01:47 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(05-21-2020, 01:05 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Top 3?? 

I don't know about that. 

Hopefully the tinhorns let O'Brien continue controlling the roster and we never know Watson's true potential.

That’s why I said 3-8. I think the top can be assembled in some order of:

1. Mahomes
2. Wilson
3. Rodgers
4. Watson
5. Lamar
6. Brady 
7. Brees 
8. Stafford/Ryan

That's a pretty reasonable list.  For those who advocate tanking, I would ask, how many of those teams tanked to get those QBs?  And, how many of those QBs were drafted #1 overall?  Okay, Matt Stafford.  That's it.  So what did the Lions get out of that other than a top-10 QB?  A Super Bowl?  Not even close.  

Tanking has many problems, and one of them is that you have to build the worst team in the league to get that number one pick.  Having the worst team in the league is not exactly a springboard to the Super Bowl, even if you draft Trevor Lawrence.  Besides, when you put Trevor Lawrence on the worst team in the league, then you have to build a team around him, and that could take years if you start with the worst team in the league.  So if by some remote chance he isn't beaten to death playing for the worst team in the league, and he pans out as a great QB (not a given), by the time you have built a team around him, his rookie contract is up and he's asking for a $200 million contract.

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