If Carr were 32 I would agree, but he is still young and ascending. He would be a great pickup for them. He is a proven commodity, Claiborne is not. Did you see how awful their secondary was last year? They could definitely use him him to help stabilize that secondary.

Clearly you don't get it. WE CAN'T GET RGIII FOR WHAT THE GIANTS GAVE FOR ELI. Not even close.

Actually I do get it. The point is the Giants took a chance and gave up what it took to get Eli (regardless of what it would take to get RGIII this year) and were richly rewarded for it. We play it safe even though 40 years of history says that way won't work for us.

I have maintained my position that you build your team as if they have to support Matt Ryan, but you aggressively pursue QBs that you hope will become Peyton Manning. Taking a risk on a franchise QB is one thing. Taking a gamble that your QB will become Peyton Manning is another.

I am a big supporter of trading aggressively for RGIII. But if it means sacrificing 2+ years of marquee draft picks, then forget about it. It's stupid to take that enormous risk because we have to overcompensate in a really horrendous QB draft class. I'd rather wait until 2013. There will be deeper QBs and regardless of our draft position, it will be significantly to trade our way into a QB that has true first round value.

So you're saying our first this year, next year, and Carr would do it? I'd even sweeten that deal with a 3rd somewhere.

No, what part about "the Rams don't have the cap, nor the urgency to win now to pay that much for Carr" do you not understand?

? What? What does taking RG3 and trading for him have to do with thinking he will become Peyton Manning? He doesn't need to be Peyton Manning. Peyton never played on a team as good as the team KC has right now...

RG3 has a lot going for him. Brains like crazy, a better deep ball than Manning, and his athletic ability is just icing.

Yes. So you give him a 2-3 year window to win now, which is crazy to expect out of a rookie. If you have ineffective drafts two years in a row, those young guys you have on your roster for cheap, suddenly either get overpaid or you let them loose. That means either you overly stretch your cap, or you have to let some good players go and make your team worse (and you'll have no one to replace them with).

It's not rocket science. We all know that great teams build around a franchise QB, but they also build around the draft.

What makes you think that team can't be competative with good db's and an OL to keep Bradford upright? Not to mention what they get from their draft and the bounty they reap from their pick.

If you really want to cite their cap situation, then you are uninformed. They are currently under the cap, and have highly paid guys who can go, a few contracts that can and should be extended to change their current cap hit. Like 4-5 of those off the top of my head. On top of that, they don't have any FA's who can't be had back reasonably.

All of these things due to change suddenly, plus new leadership and they can't compete at all? They have an opportunity to drastically change for the better.

Tell me... when was the last time a team traded away a top 5 pick for a 2nd contract free agent?

(Jeopardy theme song)

Tell me that it matters.

there is absolutely no way we will end up with rg3. 3 teams can all outbid us. the best chance u have of seeing him play is when we play the browns next year

**** Tannehill he has bust written all over him

yeah hes such a waste of time. Great qb's dont play one year of college quarterback. Draft someone later. tannehill is NOT worth the 11th pick. jesus

It matters because teams are smart enough to know that it's better to go with a young, elite, blue chip prospect, especially now at a far cheaper price, than to go with a second contract veteran.

The idea that you build through the draft and not free agency is a common sense principle that everybody knows, yet we are so firmly convinced that St. Louis would do the exact opposite... even with a blue chip pick.