It's been a long time coming. Adiós.

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Originally Posted by Cochise

Never said that or anything like that.

We've just discussed two teams that followed the CP prescription, and they have been pathetic for a decade because they came up collectively 0/5 on the 1st round QBs.

That is not to say that drafting a QB is not what we should do, we definitely should do it the next time we have one that we think is among the 20% or so of first rounders that stick as starters. It's just a statement of fact about the odds being heavily stacked against you.

I don't think we could find any team in the league that has followed the CP prescription of "1st round QB regardless of draft position, start him from day 1, if he sucks after year 2 give up and draft another, rinse repeat", but the closest followers do not have success stories.

Of course, people will say "They picked the wrong guys, they should have drafted better" but the consensus on most of these QB is pretty close. Everyone agreed that Gabbert was a top 15 or so pick for example.

There isn't a franchise QB in the draft every year. The intelligent way would be to target them as individuals and not pick one - any one - just because you are QB poor at the moment, but that seems to be what people here want. That drafting any 1st round QB is always the right decision, but wishing don't make it so.

I think most have softened on the 1st round or bust thing but the fact that 7 of the final 8 playoff teams had QBs drafted or signed as a rookie FA by their original team tells you that is the way to go if your goal is to do more than "just not suck"