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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I've just never been a Trent Green fan and the fact that Vermeil & Peterson passed on Drew Brees in order to "Win Now" probably exacerbates it.
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History repeated itself less egregiously with Smith.
In a vacuum, the Smith trade was defensible but you really would've like to see them hedge it by having another young QB brought in and ready to replace him. But the coaching staff had stars in its eyes and bought into the veteran QB too strongly. So while they liked Carr, they couldn't see past Smith and passed on him.
Well the Green/Brees situation is virtually identical. Carr won't have the career Brees has had (no Raider dicksuckers, he won't; Brees may be the best pure passer in NFL history) and Green was a better QB than Smith. So the cockpunch isn't quite as bad this time around as last.
But man, if they're going to acquire these veteran QBs with 3-5 year shelf lives, it sure would be nice if they'd have done a better job of 'life after veteran' than Vermiel and Reid did. The approaches were defensible but ultimately wrong.