FanofJerry
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No one is offering how many years in a row you should throw picks away chasing a qb?You want draft ramifications? (Said in my best Jack Nicholson voice)
One: Wallow in QB hell and not even try to find a QB. Bad choice. This usually leads to failure.
Two: If a QB the team believes can be the future is in the draft, get him whether the rest of the team is ready to win or not. This requires a coaching staff/owner to be willing to let said QB go through growing pains as the rest of the pieces are assembled for a team not ready to compete. This is not a bad option if one believes the GM can get the right players and the coaching staff is good enough to get the team on the right track. The Commanders with Jayden Daniels is a good example of this, as is Bo Nix. Dan Snyder selling the team helped a lot!
Three: Assemble the pieces first, than get the QB. Having a ready-made team for a QB is ideal, but risky. First, the QB talent may suddenly not be there to draft. Secondly, the team may not be bad enough to get a top pick, so draft capital would have to be expended to move up and take "The Guy." But if the team is ready, may very well be worth the risk. Windows are short for most teams in this league given contract lengths.
Four: Try to do everything at the same time with team building and QB. This is very difficult, but KC and Philly have pulled this off in recent years. Detroit and Baltimore are trying to do the same. Teams that pull this off successfully or at least are in the game for years are teams that have strong ownership, seasoned GM's with some degree of freedom, and experienced coaches. KC had the framework of a great team in the making when Reid pulled the trade up for Mahomes. Philly was going through a bit of turmoil with the eventual dumping of Wentz, but let Hurts grow into the role with a team that had a bucket full of vet leadership (Kelce, Johnson, Cox, Graham). Both KC and Philly have the GM's to get the job done. I believe Detroit and Baltimore are knocking on the Super Bowl door.
Five: I suppose one could just stay the course and hope for the best. Most likely that's also a failure.
Every year? For how many years?
If you do it once every two or three years and fail...your 5+ years down the road without a good QB.
I'm stacking my team with 1st through 4th round non-QB picks and looking for a vet journeyman QB who seems decent enough to busdrive and the game has slowed down for them.
I'm not wasting valuable picks on crapshoot QBs who are highly susceptible to failure.
Let's say you traded up 3 years in a row....that's 9 picks you probably wasted chasing a low percentage player.
Way too much talk about chasing QBs you don't want to pay on this site. Just stack your team, have a heavy running game and find a vet QB.
Spending years and draft capital on the QB chase is old and kinda stupid.