There is precedence here. The Brad Johnson Experience was target #1. 2008, he had a abysmal, bubonic plague awful preseason. Everyone knew he couldn't get the ball 15 Yards down the field...yet we kept him, and miss the playoffs by a game as the Rams (whom I think we're 2-14) beat us like we stole underwear. Then he was pulled for Brooks Bollinger who played at the same level of crap.
Then there was the Stephen McGhee experiment, bleck. Orton, who played decent but couldn't win the one game needed either.
If your starter goes down, you are most likely doomed. I don't see how a Weeden, Cassel, McCown, come in and get you to 500. Weeden just looks confused and really the same as Bradford looked last week. He has never even flashed winning ability
There's always a chance the light goes off for him, and I hope it does because fretting the season is over in week 2 really blows. But the odds say you likely would get about the same results if you just signed Tebow or let Showers run the read option for 4-5 games.
There isnt even an element of surprise with a weeden/Cassell ilk. So the draft pick really is more valuable.
may come as a surprise to some, but i completely disagree. 90% of the time we hear how the final rounds were wasted. usually this is by people who have a final hope a "pet cat" will be called and they can dance for joy in the final stages of what is now a pure show albeit boring as hell draft.
there are qb's who do well when coming in for the 1st stringer and we've seen a LOT of them. unfortunately it's usually against us - so hey, maybe this is payback time. but to say going out and getting experience is a waste of a pick i would totally have to disagree. if weeden should do down, there is NO ONE around on our roster today who could at least find the keys to the bus, much less drive it. at least we have that in cassel and in a season we're i think a vast majority of us were hoping for a great year, i'm not ready to throw it away just yet.
not by any measure at all, no.
so we've got a new wr. so we've got a new backup qb. so we made more moves lately than a standard chess tournament.
but we're still 2-0 and this division sucks fermented donkey eggs. we can still take this even with the hardships we've hit lately.
so take that pick and swap 'em around and give us one of the better options out there. sure some will do their darth NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO impersonation but ya know what? show me ANY move where someone DIDN'T have to darth is up. we simply weren't going to find another starting QB sitting out there just waiting for us to give him a call (hell, even a "her" these days, right?) and wa-la problem solved. so our choices were:
1) stand pat and bring up showers or moore.
2) do what we did
3) trade for brees or something. uh huh huh huh huh...get it... i got showers and brees in the same paragraph. i rule.
but seriously. we simply had to bring in the best we could with what we had on the table and in my mind that's what we did. i'm sure some will disagree but that's why we're here - talk about it.
and i'm not ready to throw the season away just yet, so get rid of those lower round picks. we are likely to get comp picks we can't do anything with anyway or hell, with the depth we're building, we'll get it back if necessary.
