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Originally Posted by SNR
Trading for and developing another team's backup QB has worked out TWICE in recent memory.
Matt Hasselbeck
Brett Favre
TWO. There have been more undrafted starting QBs that have done great things in that same amount of time (1992) than TWO.
And that's if you consider Hasselbeck a rousing success. Ask Seattle fans about his first three years there and how much of a headache he was. Ask them about Jon Kitna and Brock Huard.
If I were an NFL GM, I would trade for another team's backup QB NEVER. I don't care about the deal I got for him. It's a waste of draft picks.
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I completely agree with you. However if you put yourself in their shoes they're only worried about one thing. Keeping their jobs. Alex is more of a proven thing and therefore a much higher probability of not completely failing in the short term. If they trade for Smith it's not for the team's best interest but for their own.