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Originally Posted by milkman
I am talking about making long term investment at the most improtant position on the filed.
QBs don't win championships by themselves, but having a top notch young QB in place gives you the opportunity to find and open the window for a much longer stretch than trading for or signing a backup that is already approaching 30.
If the Chiefs had drafted Brees, rather than trading for Green, they would not only have had the QB for that window, but also have that QB for the next window.
Had they built the team the right way to start with, using the draft rather than trading for and signing players that were on the downside of thoer careers, they could have opened a window for 10-12 years, rather than simply have that 4 year window.
That was why I still consider the trade for Montana a mistake.
They had the talent in place to compete for the better part of a decade, but by trading for Montana, and not having a better contingency plan in place in case of injury and for his retirement, they essentially opeend a two year window.
That, to me, was sheer stupidity and piss poor planning.
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I don't have a problem with your philosophy and, in hindsight at least, I agree that the contingency plan of using the 49ers bench as your QB pipeline was horrible, but in terms of expected value (meaning you have to account for the failures as well as the successes), I still think both trades were wins for the Chiefs.
Is there a QB you think the Chiefs should draft this year with the #5 pick?