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Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

1.) I'm not changing the subject at all. You've made the same statements about not taking OL as about not taking Curry at #3.

2.) And, AGAIN, I'm not a Curry advocate. I pointed out that I'd look to Raji at #3 before anyone else. Seriously, if you're not going to bother reading, what's the point of this?

3.) It's not throwing the entirety of modern NFL draft history out the window, as you well know.

4.) Of course I'm removing QB from the discussion. If Pioli takes a QB at #3, that would be far more groundbreaking than taking Curry there, unless you can remember a time that a team has ever drafted a QB in round 1 after trading for a franchise tagged QB. I believe that, if it happens, it'll be a first, unlike a LB being drafted in the top 5.

How many times has anybody traded for a franchise QB? I honestly can't remember one. So trading for a franchise QB is unprecedented in and of itself. Therefore the idea of taking a QB at #3 just jumped the shark.

As for a LB being drafted in the top 5, that's a much different situation. There's been 15 drafts since the inception of the franchise tag (to make it a fair comparison) and how many non-pass rushing LB's have been taken? 1? 2?

Anyway, I'm done fighting about Curry. In the end, it looks like the two of us agree and we've entered this argument not because we believe deep down but we saw some compulsion to argue on merit alone.