Where exactly did I call for a 5th Rd rookie? A veteran signing sounds perfect, thanks for making my point.
Going with the 5th round rookie assumption, if the kid had upside and he was backing up EJ....let's see what he could do! It keeps something called hope alive...(hey this kid could be the future) which our 2 current backups would not do....we saw everything they have last year....and there is no upside.
My "dream world" as you put it was pretty much all of our nightmare in 2013....and our FO just doubled down on the exact same 3 guys.
Vick, Schaub, Sanchez...say what you want about them...they have all led teams to the playoffs and all appear to be ready for backup roles. If we had any one of those 3 behind EJ, nobody would be discussing the QB position with concern the way we are now.