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I'm trying to think, but has there been a successful example of trading the farm to move up for a QB?
Certainly not RG3. Not Jared Goff. One could argue the Giants won the day by trading for Eli Manning instead of Rivers, although I'd be shocked if Rivers couldn't have had the same success Eli did in NY.
I don't know why that is. It's kind of surprising, actually. In all of those situations, one guy was great and the other did jack shit. I guess it comes back to getting it right.
On the flip side, it is valid to point out that Brees, Warner, and Peyton are all retread QBs to lead their new team to a super bowl, and they went 2-4 collectively in those games.
It can be done, but it's rare. Mostly because teams don't let go of super bowl caliber QBs.
Not sure any of this means jack ****ing shit in terms of this debate, but there's been a lot of good arguments in here, and it got me thinking. We have extra picks this year in a QB-depleted, yet other-position-rich draft. Do you package them, pull the trigger, and trade up, praying you got Luck and not RG3? Do you say **** it, we'll see who falls and fill out this roster with good players at 9 other positions?
Sadly, this is an argument that I don't think can be won until draft night and you see what happens. If Trubisky, Mahomes, and Watson are all gone by pick 10, then it changes everything. Trading up into the top 10 for a guy you are FOR SURE not playing until at least next year just seems to be really bad roster management. I get the reasons to go for it, but I think it might cause more harm than good in the long run.
Maybe.
Who knows.
Is 9:30am too early to start drinking?
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