He also sacrificed a 3rd round compensatory pick to sign Pringle. Rather than find support for Fields in his first year here, he focused our draft capital on DBs. His only major attempted FA signing was also for defense. His choice of HC was a middling DC. This off-season he once again focused our FA resources on defense, and made zero attempt to address the gaping hole at C. He’s a bad GM because he doesn’t understand how to correctly prioritize resources in the modern NFL. You can’t win by ignoring offense, and the craziest part is that despite this mismanagement we don’t even have a half decent defense to show for it. And yet this sub seems hell bent on defending him, no matter how bad this team has continued to be under his watch.

…and with that meaningless victory goes the dream of pairing MHJr with our rookie QB next season.

The point is that the baseline for a championship contending team is a good or better QB. Until you have that, nothing else matters. Once you have that, you still aren’t guaranteed anything, but from there you have a lot of different paths to success. You could build a stifling defense, put together potent weapons, build a great OL, find a genius HC, etc. Ideally more than one of those. And if your QB is better than just good? We’ve seen how Brady and Payton and Rodgers could drag an otherwise lifeless franchise to the playoffs every single year. When the Colts lost Payton for the season they went from perennial playoff contender to literally the #1 overall pick. A single WR–even a HOF one, hell, even the GOAT–doesn’t come close to doing any of that.

The responses to this thread are just showing that the vast majority of this sub couldn’t pass the marshmallow test even as adults.

That’s great for our purposes because it guarantees one of them loses (by which I mean wins).

We’ve sat through decades of bad QB play, why rush and waste another pick on the current QB draft pool that looks terrible.

This is considered one of the best QB drafts in years. While a lot can change in a year, next season is widely considered to be a weak group. And next year we almost certainly won’t be picking in range to take one of the top candidates even if one or more emerges. Williams hasn’t had as strong a season as many were hoping, but unimpeachable Luck-esque prospects are almost impossibly rare. Every guy you look at is going to have flaws, and as it stands today, Williams is one of the best prospects in years, and Maye isn’t a bad consolation prize.

Throw in Rice and Megatron at WR and Payton at zombie HB and I’m sold.

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Almost guarantee they’re basing it off his box scores more than anything. Or from watching one game on a drunken Saturday afternoon. Very few on here are actually watching the All-22 and breaking down the plays, but ask them and they’ll still give you a very definitive analysis on his strengths, weaknesses, and character.

And they were right. Draft prospects aren’t guarantees, but there is extremely strong correlation between draft position and future success, especially at QB. If you’re in position to take a top QB prospect, you do it, without a second thought. Will it always work out? Of course not. But you can’t win without a QB and have to take your shot at some point, and if you have to trade up to take that shot, it’s going to cost you multiple firsts if you can even get so lucky as to have a top team willing to trade with you.