If the jets think they have found their QB in this draft ..go for it but honestly I think our QB will be in the next draft We should be patient on this and put Moore,Sanchez and Mcelroy into competiton .
True, but if memory serves me well, Eli's dad made it clear to SD that he didn't want play for the Chargers. SD picked him anyway with the understanding that they would trade Eli to NY so as to squeeze an additional #1 pick out of the Giants. Young went to the USFL LA Express and as for Elway, he went the Eric Lindros route and told the Colts (who had the pick) that he wouldn't play for them. He even tried to dangle the threat of playing RF for the Yankees who owned the rights to him. As for 2013, no need to force the QB issue in this year's draft. Grab a fill-in (or Sanchez/McElroy), shore up the other (many) weak areas first THEN go franchise QB shopping in 2014.
I think we all agree with the premise. However, who is out there that really excites you this year? The guys who will be first rounders would have been 2nd rounders, at best, last year. And 2014 doesn't look much better (I dont think Manziel is an NFL qb). Sometimes you have be lucky to be bad in a certain year (the Colts did it twice). And the Jets are usually never bad enough in the correct year to draft a guy like Manning, Luck, RG3, Newton, etc..
lol @ struck gold with Luck. If striking gold is like walking up and some guy just handing you a pot of gold and running away. To me striking gold isn't finding a guy who was hyped to be the best thing since Peyton Manning. Just my little editorial note.
Twice as fast as a guy that could have made the Olympic team in 100 meter hurdles? Hyperbole, thy name is abysmul.
^^ Correct, TB grabbed Young in the supplemental draft and got him when the Express folded. TB views Young as a bust, tabs Testerverde in the '87 draft and Bill Walsh nabs Young. Typical Midas touch Walsh.
The problem is, it doesn't appear like any of the quarterbacks in this draft are at that level. Most of the quarterbacks that have won big lately were high draft picks who were highly thought of coming into the draft. Drafting a QB just to draft one leaves you with Christian Ponder and Jake Locker.
We already have the stop gap QB on the roster (McElroy) we are cap strapped so we should try to avoid spending as much as possible right now. Hopefully we get lucky with a late 1st round QB like Flacco, Elway etc in 2014, in the event we have a better than expected season in '13. If we get a top 5 pick we need to take the best QB available.
He needs multiple rings and decades of top of the NFL seasons, needless to say both are a long way off. If he can't run he's half the QB, he's on his second knee reconstruction and this surgery meant cutting both knees since the injured knee was already out of cartilage to use. It's a giant if...
The Rivers/Manning thing is a technicality that has nothing to do with the point made by the OP. They were traded for each other within minutes of being drafted, so they were essentially drafted by the teams they play for.
This is just a ridiculous post made to incite a debate and to shock people. If he NEVER played again he's already a better draft pick than Gholston.
Eli, Rivers, Elway and Favre are "technical" glitches that still prove the point. They were drafted and traded on draft day, and that doesn't count. That's the team going after what they consider to be a franchise QB and being right.
That wasn't a sure thing at all. The Giants gave up a ton to make that deal and the rumor is if they couldn't make it they were going to draft Rothlisberger instead of Rivers.
It's not just a matter of drafting a QB. Every decision made has to be made through the prism of how this impacts the development of your young QB. We've failed miserably at the latter.
McElroy is not a stop gap. If anything, he's probably a "gap opener", but then again some might like that (higher 2014 draft pick).
Joe Flacco, Kaepernick, Russel Wilson, Brady, ect werent thought of as elite prospects. The first 3 were good prospects, but most definitely were not viewed as being top 8 QBs in the league. Im sure the teams that drafted them hoped they would be, but they were no Luck or RG3 prospects.
Imagine Tannehill with a real offensive line, a number 1/2 receiver, and a running back that doesn't dance around and wastes down... You guys better solve your QB situation soon!
