[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by HotCarl

If the QB sucks year 1, he'll get a year 2. The team invested a #1 pick in him. Even JaMarcus Russell got a second year.

How often do #1 overall QBs get dumped after an underwhelming second year? Isn't going to happen.

If he sucked the second year, the third year there'd be idle talk about competition, maybe a veteran brought in to 'push' or 'motivate' him. But the team would slog through another year hoping to turn him into a system QB or get some pennies back for their dollar.

A #1 overall is going to get 3 years easily, and if he doesn't work out, you've got to start over drafting another one. If your next one hits, it's probably year 5 before you're ready again.

All the while, there's a pretty well proven commodity available for a second, third, possibly free.

SO.

****ING.

WHAT.