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Old 05-01-2013, 06:58 PM   #170
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Originally Posted by BigRedChief View Post
I know its not what we all wanted but we picked a bad year to suck worse than anyone else.

A better O-line is better for the team. We didn't really need one of the top DE's or CB's. We wern't picking a QB. It is what it is.
That "it's a bad year" thing is just a convenient excuse for a permanent team philosophy. This franchise will never select a high round quarterback. Ever. It doesn't matter what year it is, where they pick or what's available in the draft or who the GM and coach is at the time. I's something that trickles down from the very top. Quarterback for this franchise is a complementary position, and all they have ever wanted is "good enough". The only way they will ever have "one of the best" is if it's a freak occurrence like Tyler Bray slipping into UDFA territory and getting a brain transplant. Because all they care about are finding bargains. It's like they have a pathological obsession with doing it another way, finding some diamond in the rough, pulling somebody off the scrap heap, turning some backup into a star so they can show the rest of the league how smart they are.

And when it finally happens, and they finally find a franchise QB despite themselves, all the fans who blindly follow along cheering every move they make will shout "see! we told you it would work!" utterly disregarding the 3247 times before that it didn't. Maybe that time will be Alex Smith. Maybe it will be Tyler Bray. Maybe it will be somebody 27 years from now. Who knows.

What I know is that there aren't really right ways and wrong ways so much as there are easy ways and hard ways. And this franchise and by extension much of its fanbase seems pathological about making it as difficult for themselves as humanly possible. Who cares that the league is about passing now, who cares that time-after-time and year-after-year quarterbacks are making a bigger difference, let's keep beating that free agent backup game manager drum. Let's get as big an offensive line as we can and build around running game and (castrated) defense. It will work! Eventually!
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