What other legit option was there?

Thigpen and/or Croyle don't fit this description.

Sanchez was a great prospect. I'm frankly amazed that this isn't a consensus opinion on here. This doesn't mean he'll excel in the league, but it's pretty difficult to question the kid's skill set and intangibles.

After starting 1 young QB and having it result in horrible things it seems a portion of our fan base had had enough of that and was ready to go back to vets.

It's because Messier didn't think Sanchez was any good, so if he didn't think he was good, surley Pioli and Haley thought the same.

Who was this young QB? Does Croyle qualify? Don't you have to play at least one full game to be classified as a QB?

Seriously, anyone who couldn't see that the Croyle experiment was going to fail was either Herm or a homer.

Brodie has always been hurt. HS, college, his first training camp as a n00b. WTF else did you need for evidence?

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Um dude saying Brodie Croyle was injury prone and destined to fail because he was made of glass caused people to freak out.

I completely understand someone wanting to go in a different direction and not take Sanchez. Cool. Pioli thought the same thing, obviously.

But to deny Sanchez's high quality as a prospect is pretty ridiculous.

I don't know, a trade? I'm not really saying I know what they would have done, all I'm saying is taking Sanchez wasn't necessarily their back up plan, and therefore those two shouldn't be automatically linked.

Thigpen would make that throw 1 out of every 10 tries.

I don't know if Sanchez will be good. Do you know Pioli and Haley had him next in line if they couldn't get Cassel?

Those 3 QB's at the top will forever be linked....for the Lions it's all 3...for the Chiefs it's 2 and for the Jets it's this guy is it or it didn't work out.

If Sanchez ends up being the guy that's the best both Chiefs and Lions fans will talk about the blunder of 09.

I would certainly hope so...

Passing on a big prospect is always of note for every team. As Mecca mentioned, Detroit and St. Louis fans will have the very same discussions if some player who went just a few picks later, and thus SHOULD have been on everyone's radar, turns into a stud.

It's just the nature of the draft. It's fun to second guess and play the what if game. Everyone knows who the top prospects are; it's no secret that Stafford and Sanchez were studs coming out of college.

LOL i mean a 2 or 3 years

If they didn't at least seriously discuss the possibility of drafting Sanchez, our entire FO should have been fired yesterday.