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Originally Posted by RealSNR
If we miss out on Trubisky or Kizer, the next guys on my wish list are Barnett and Watt.
I don't know what you're trying to go for with this "desperation" narrative, but it's bizarre and kind of stupid. Not one person is advocating QB no matter ****ing what
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Exactly.
If they take Watson or Kizer, I'll just say "eh, I guess they know what they're doing" but I don't like either of them. Kizer I could talk myself into due to his long-term upside, at least.
Watson would have me in the same boat that I was in when Pioli traded for Cassel - dude had better be right because I'm not seeing it at all.
And for all the yap about the '18 class, nobody but Darnold will be able to step in and play better than Mahomes in '18. Mahomes will have a year under his belt by then.
The 'wait 'till 18' crowd seems to be completely ignoring the fact that this front office isn't going to walk away from Smith to install a rookie - they just won't. So if we wait until '18, that means 2 more years with Smith.
IF there is a gap between the caliber of QBs available to us at this point in the draft and the caliber of QBs likely to be available to us at a similar point in next year's draft, it isn't so great to justify another year with Alex Smith. If Falk falls into the teens, it will be because he isn't the world-beater that folks are trying to say he'll be. Likewise with Rudolph or Allen or Browning or Rosen. If any of those guys make it to the 18-25 range, it will be because they simply aren't the prospects people are claiming they're going to be. If they're clearly better than Mahomes and crew, they'll go top 10. If they're the same, we'll pay the same to get them only wait a year to start on their development.
"Wait until X class" simply doesn't make sense. Not with as willing as teams are to move up to get their guy anymore. If the draft is full of studs next year, we'll still be left out in the cold because the teams that desperately need them will pay more to move up less than we will. And we'll end up looking at the same kind of flawed prospects in the late 20s that we're looking at now.