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Originally Posted by RealSNR
Hootie laughed at me, but I'm telling ya.... if the NFL draft is such a crap shoot, perhaps a team of knowledgable football fans who turned this into their full time jobs COULD churn out a better draft than the bottom 3rd of GMs in the league. At the very least, I don't think their drafts would be demonstrably worse.
Even in the case of the 2017 draft, you've got one of the NFL's best GMs in Telesco with the Chargers who also had the perfect chance to take Mahomes, but he had his head too far up Rivers' butt to think about what was actually in front of him. Alex Smith is 2 years younger than Rivers, and that didn't stop Reid/Dorsey from pulling the trigger on Mahomes. Had QB-starved rabid beer-drinking Big 12 dumbass fans been running the Chargers, that team would have been set for the next 20 years, not just the 3. Hell, just consider what they could have gotten in trade for Rivers, too. No, Mike Williams isn't a bust... he actually seems to be an okay player. But does that shit matter at all when a couple years down the line you have to replace Rivers and nothing is available?
The fans aren't always wrong, and sometimes in the case of the huge ****ing idiot teams like the Bills and the Bengals, the fans can be right just as often as the idiot old stubborn GMs.
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While what you are saying makes plenty of sense, lots of GM's care about the here and now. If he thinks at that point he has 5 more years of Rivers, he'll view using a 1 as a waste of a pick.
Most GM's are short sighted because blowing a QB pick is a good way to get fired.