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Originally Posted by SNR

Why couldn't it happen to us? The Seahawks did the exact same thing by signing Flynn and drafting Wilson.

They just got lucky, or were in the right year. But if Wilson wasn't a Godsend and just another 3rd round QB, they'd have gone with Flynn for a year and stuck with him until Wilson was ready or until another QB they drafted in the future worked out.

We could have signed Palmer, drafted Geno or Barkley, then tried again next year at a QB. We wouldn't have been confined to any one guy until he brought some success, whether that was Palmer, the rookie, or even Tyler Bray or Chase Daniel.

After the Smith trade, I wanted to trade down for peanuts, get one or two extra picks, and then draft a QB, hopefully Geno, with that pick. Ideally our first rounder would have been spent on a real CB or defensive lineman or something.

There are so many better and safer things we could have done than banking on Alex Smith resurrecting this franchise. Diversify. Keep trying.

God, you don't just invest in one shitty stock in your portfolio. You try many things. In sports betting, you bet on multiple games to cover your ground.

THIS. Especially the bolded part.