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I have a pretty good LT who wants to get paid and WILL play for my team for at least one more season since he signed the franchise tag. I've got some meh options at RT who might be good or they might not, but theoretically I should be able to find a reasonable starter out of those three choices (Stephenson, Allen, Schwartz). So I can solidify either tackle position in a league that doesn't seem to care about great LTs, and where the past several Super Bowl champions have won without top 10 players at the position. Or I can take the top QB in the class, who only has correctable flaws in his technique, but is a demonstrably hard worker and dedicated football player. I can sit him for one or even two full years under the tutelage of Alex Smith (starter before Kaepernick) and more importantly, Andy Reid and Doug Pederson. I'm not going to settle for the temporary value of having a slightly improved offensive line (theoretically) that will solidify the group even if Albert leaves. That's what crack whores do. THAT'S what desperate teams do. Patient teams think about the future that won't always have Derrick Johnson, Tamba Hali, and Jamaal Charles. It knows that Dwayne Bowe and Brandon Flowers have only a few seasons of prime left before their skills may deteriorate. And to make up for those deficiencies, the best way to win through that talent loss is to have a carefully developed starting QB. That's EXACTLY how the Ravens won the Super Bowl. And if we wait much longer on that QB, it may be too late before the structure we've built collapses like a flan in a cupboard. |
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I think Geno Smith is going to be a "very good" QB in 3 years.
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04-17-2013, 12:03 PM | #49 |
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**** you. I shouldn't have to clarify that I mean the top QB in a class. You know goddamn well I didn't just mean any turd of a QB.
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04-17-2013, 12:04 PM | #51 |
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Suddenly we're supposed to hang on Mel Kiper's words? That seems a bit hypocritical.
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Mel Kiper was one of the more prominent ones saying he liked Gabbert over Cam Newton.
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Yes, you shouldn't have to make cogent arguments at all. We should all just accept your wisdom without question. Get over yourself, girl.
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I didn't even say anything about Vandenberg. He was part of a question I asked. Good lord.
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That may be true, but you were still embarrassingly wrong.
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But this illustrates what I, and others, have said about this class. People have been looking at this class through prism that has been skewed by recent drafts. It has only been a recent phenomonom for QBs to start right away and be expected to excel from the very first game. Prior to the last couple of years, even if QBs were asked to start right away, everyone recognized that there should be a development period. QBs were drafted high because they had the potential to excel, in time. Almost every draft expert agrees that Geno has potential. But now, they downgrade him, and Barkley, and others, because they might not excel immediately.
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