Originally Posted by SNR
(Post 8470825)
I'm with you on that, but I'm also not a fan of drafting project guys only to abandon their progress so quickly. They're projects. They take time. They need coaching, training camp snaps, and time on the sidelines during games finding out just how different the NFL is from the NCAA.
Personally, I don't see what others do in Foles. I like his size and athletic attributes a lot, but he's kind of like a smaller version of Brock Osweiler only with a slightly better arm. From the game footage of Arizona I just don't see the NFL throw. I see a guy with a big arm, but it's not connecting. It's not dissecting the defense. It's throwing to open guys down the field and checking down, just like Cassel. And the throws downfield aren't that impressive. He's not even close to threading needles like Luck does. Hell, he doesn't even thread needles like Kirk Cousins does. He's got a lot to work on his arm to make it more compact and accurate, and I'd rather not waste several seasons on that bullshit.
We've got a year invested in Stanzi. That's good. We're making progress there. What we SHOULD be doing is trying to find a team that would be willing to sacrifice a first round pick in next year's draft. Let's say Trent Richardson is available at 11 and the Redskins want him. We should absolutely take the Redskins' 2nd rounder this year and their 1st rounder next year plus some other draft pick. It puts us in a good position to have a QB available to us next year, and if we're still out of reach, now we have added firepower to trade up and grab a first round guy who doesn't need the bullshit coached out of him like Foles does.
Basically, I'm saying it's fine to have a project QB. It's fine to have two project QBs if you want to be thorough. It's ****ing idiocy to take a project QB and replace him with another project QB the next year, though. Either you upgrade the position, get better depth, or go fist your grandmother and wait another 40 years for a Super Bowl, because it doesn't do any good sitting around playing with yourself pretending you're doing something about the QB position when you're just keeping the status quo.
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