Offensive line or QB with first pick?

[Geno Smith's Arm]

i love this post except the start winning big in 2015....

 

i would love to know the list of available fa qbs THIS YEAR. but screw the 1 year t.o. contract crap.

 

Were you born in 1990?

[frogger]

No, no no... everyone knows that rookie QBs have to start every game their rookie year. And if they don't get good protection that first year, they are guaranteed to flame out. I'm pretty sure Detroit has already given up on Matt Stafford, and it's all because they didn't put him behind a good o-line this year.

 

No, there's only 2 winning moves here:

 

1.) Go LT in the first round this year, RT in the first round next year, swing tackle in the first round in 2012, then draft a QB in 2013, and start winning big around 2015. Possibly as soon as 2014.

 

2.) Take a flyer on a mid-round QB every year, and given the <10% success rate on those guys, it should only take us 10 or 11 tries to find a Kyle Orton type. Super Bowl, here we come!

 

Look, no one is saying draft a QB in the first just for the sake of doing so. For example, if (when? I'm legitimately scared) the Bills draft Tebow at #9, I'll throw up. There's 2 QBs in this draft that rational people/scouts generally have first-round grades on. I doubt either one will last to #9, but if either does, he MUST be the pick. You can't just say you'll wait until the o-line is good, then draft a QB in the first round. Supply is very limited. Most years, there's either 2 or 3 QBs drafted in the first round. Sometimes one lasts to the late teens or early twenties, sometimes they're all gone around the top 10. When you have a chance at one, you have to take that chance.

 

agree, if one of those QBs are there, we have to draft one. I prefer Clauson, I think he will have similar career to Carson Palmer. If they are both gone, McClain or a Left tackle. and pray that Brohm or Edwards were a result of horrible coaching, and chan can fix it.