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Originally Posted by AdumbGuy
At least some of the "homegrown QB" rhetoric comes from the knowledge that other team's castoffs rarely if ever succeed elsewhere. Our own QB track record is the perfect evidence for that argument.
I would love it if Reid/Dorsey would draft a QB just to make me personally happy, but that's not why I'm pissed that they don't take a chance. I'm pissed because my experience has taught me that there is an incredibly high probability that the strategy they are trying is going to fail. It has been demonstrated repeatedly.
Even if Alex Smith is a good QB, is he better than the 49ers current QB? So basically, we're going for at best, the 2nd best possible QB? I'd rather have the hope of the unknown, boom or bust, rather than the safety of known mediocrity.
That's just me though, I can completely understand somebody else not feeling that way.
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I wish Montana would have stayed for the 1995 season. Gannon was a castoff that had some good games for the Chiefs and he did better with the Raiders (league MVP and Super Bowl appearance, may have won a Super Bowl if Tony Siragusa did not cheap shot him in AFC title game) after we picked Grbac over him. Grbac had some good numbers, lacked leadership ability. IMO, Trent Green was good enough to win a Super Bowl if our Defense was better and the Patriots were not so good those years.
As far as a relocated QB, I think it depends on how they became available, some are available because some other QB on the roster has won the job when the other guy is injured like Kurt Warner and Trent Green, or there is a QB waiting to take over like Phillip Rivers and Drew Brees.