A) Got no time to screw around. If you can get Cousins you do it. I like him. He is a proven field general and you could build a team around him. I can see he and McD joined at the hip.
Cousins and maybe Case Keenum are the only QB's I'd want.
B) Trade up to get a top QB prospect means giving up all that draft capital, developing him for a year or two and hoping he is the guy. Kinda like the Rams did. I don't recall if they traded up for Goff.
C) The other option is to let a QB fall to us and develop him behind someone like Alex Smith.
I quess it all depends on who is available and how patient you can be. I think patience is in short supply at OBD and scenario A is most preferred. As far as which flop would hurt the team more? It don't matter. It's about time and winning now. They get a whole new clip of cash increasing in size every year and people are paid big bucks to figure it out.