They hate themselves and want to punish themselves and their fans for being so garbage

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Sign a 5-year contract, don’t put any effort in, blame it all on Tepper and your reputation is clean.

All that and for what? Just to increase the odds of finding our Franchise QB from 45% to 60%?

We are more likely to find the QB if we simply draft 2 QBs in the 1st and 2nd round, set them up for a position battle, then plan to trade away the worse QB.

Sign him for 1 day. Let him retire a Falcon!

At the start of this season we were talking about how much greater AFC teams and AFC QBs were than the NFC.

Now, the top 2 teams in the league are NFC teams. An NFC QB is the favorite to win the MVP award.

Teams whiff on QB drafts all the time. No reason we can’t acquire a QB in FA or in the middle of the 1st round.

Except CP84

Not hiring a QB coach is the nail in the coffin for me

Bijan’s a great player, but honestly I feel like the RB position was at best the 4th best position to draft on. The only excuse is if we felt that there was no good QB, Edge Rusher, or WR available.

Narrator: There were a few QB prospects, Edge Rushers, and WRs available.

If the season ends today we have the 9th overall pick. In front of us is Chicago, NYG, New England, Green Bay, and a few other teams that are much less likely to draft a QB.

We may realistically just have to rank the QBs and take the best one who falls to our position. Williams and Maye are likely to be off the board in the Top 5. The best thing for our team is to come up with a ranking of the top 5 QBs entering the draft according to which would be the best for the team and for the future, then pick the best available.

Interestingly, Tankathon’s mock draft has us picking an Edge rusher in the first round over Penix.

He’s a starting QB

They have starting jobs more than 3 years after being drafted.

To be objective I made a criteria for hits/misses. If you’re a staring QB, you’re a hit and if not, you’re a miss. This is not perfect. But it is an objective measurement that I can easily measure to try to capture some kind of success rate between early picks and late picks.

Name a “better” criteria.

Disagree. I’m skeptical that QBs selected in the Top 5 overall picks are so much significantly more likely to succeed than QBs selected later in the first, second, or third round. Not saying they’re not better, but just saying the odds of a swing and miss are so much higher than the marginal increase in likelihood of a hit that it doesn’t make giving up draft capital worth it.

For the sake of argument I’m going to call each of these players a ‘hit’ if they’re still starting QB at this point. I’m only starting with 2020 and later since we’re now 3 seasons later.

• 2020:
  • Top 5 picks
    • Joe Burrow (1) - Hit
    • Tua Tugavailoa (5) - Hit
  • 1st-2nd round picks
    • Justin Herbert (6) - Hit
    • Jordan Love (23) - Hit
    • Jalen Hurts (53) - Hit
• 2019:
  • Top 5 picks
    • Kyler Murray (1) - Hit
  • 1st-2nd round picks
    • Daniel Jones (6) - Hit
    • Dwayne Haskins (15) - Miss
    • Drew Lock (42) - Miss
• 2018:
  • Top 5 picks
    • Baker Mayfield (1) - Hit
    • Sam Darnold (3) - Miss
  • 1st-2nd round picks
    • Josh Allen (7) - Hit
    • Josh Rosen (10) - Miss
    • Lamar Jackson (32) - Hit
• 2017
  • Top 5 picks
    • Mitchel Trubisky (2) - Miss
  • 1st-2nd round picks
    • Patrick Mahomes (10) - Hit
    • Deshaun Watson (12) - Hit
    • Deshone Kizer (52) - Miss
• 2016
  • Top 5 picks
    • Jared Goff (1) - Hit
    • Carson Wentz (2) - Miss
  • 1st-2nd round picks
    • Paxton Lynch (26) - Miss
    • Christian Hackenberg (51) - Miss

62.5% of QBs selected in the Top 5 between 2016 and 2020 are starting QBs. 57% of QBs selected between picks 6 and 64 between 2016 and 2020 are currently starting QBs.

So when you’re giving up significant draft capital to move up to a Top-5 pick, all you’re doing is increasing your odds of success at drafting a QB from 57% to 62.5%. That’s not a major increase.

In my opinion, the QBs selected outside the top 5 are still significantly likely to succeed and teams should basically never trade up for a QB. A smart team with a Top 5 pick would be wise to trade down in exchange for significant draft capital. In my opinion, it’s better to select 2 QBs between picks 10 and 20 than it is to select 1 Top-5 QB.

Why is Kyle Pitts not bold and italicized? Did I miss some major news?!

Give skilled position players the option to play with a flag. Penalty if you tackle someone with a flag. Tradeoff is that it’s harder to get yards after the catch, but dramatically lower risk of injury for these critical players.

I would expect nearly all QBs to use this option, and many older and more injury-prone players.

There is a logical reason to not go for Sweat or Young. Both are at the end of their contracts.

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