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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And that's why a smart executive would do both.
It's what the Chiefs did with Smith/Mahomes. They had it coming and going.
Get your veteran with a year or two left on his deal and while you have a shit team with a high end draft pick, take your chances on a high ceiling young guy.
Because at worst, the young guy craters and you still have a solid veteran in your pocket. And you keep your job.
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Yep. No question.
The problem lies with you have to go ahead and un**** to at least a base level of competency with the following:
Roster: QBs are all well and good, but you have to find 25 dudes that can play and hope you can find some depth somewhere. This is hard. Obviously, because there are some shit rosters in there. Obviously if you are getting a job, good chance the roster is shit.
General Staff: Good chance that if your administration is full of ****, so is your training staff and equipment guys. You have to make sure you address it at some point.
Assistant Coaches: You can't turn loose your shiny new problem solving dudes on coaches that suck.
There are so damn many places that can make an otherwise good coach/QB/System/Approach fail it's ridiculous. That's why the failure rate is through the roof.
But yeah, the smart guys get a competent guy to plug the holes and bring some professionalism. Then you can look for YOUR guy. Not A guy, but YOUR guy.