[the Talking Can]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

People are cramming different kinds of quarterbacks into the same discussion.

If they're ever going to take a shot at a real franchise caliber first round quarterback in the first round, they're going to have to finish last or next-to-last in the league, or they're going to have to sell the farm and make a move into the top 2 spots. Because that's what it takes. And that's the kind of first round quarterback I want.

Discussions about 2nd (or 3rd) tier quarterback candidates like Tannehill (or Mark Sanchez or Blaine Gabbert or Christian Ponder or a hundred other guys over the years) are a completely different discussion. These guys are shots in the dark, comparatively speaking, and that's why you get such a variance in opinion on them.

I'm fine with taking a shot in the dark, in principle, but I think it's a move better made in a draft that has depth at the QB position, because the value that you get is likely going to be higher. And in that vein, I think that, in a QB deep draft, a player like Tannehill is a 2nd round pick at best.

So in that light, I guess it does have something to do with "better ones next year". Or rather, "better ones than there are this year, whether it's next year or the year after or the year after that".

Really though, the main thing is that I'm just not all that impressed with Tannehill.

But if they take him I won't raise much of a fuss, because they do need to try sometime. I'll just be very, very surprised if he turns out to be anything more than a guy.

QB [insert name] Isn't Good Enough x Wait Till Next Year = infinity