2014 NFL draft thread (no longer too early)

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Mack's not getting past Atlanta at 6. Evans wouldn't be a luxury pick for Tampa, he'd fill a need by giving the team a viable No. 2 receiver behind Jackson.

 

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It's amazing how much the quarterbacks have fallen off the radar, at least compared to about a month ago.

It will be interesting to see what happens if all of the QBs fall out of the top 10.

 

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I think it's all BS.

Some teams are probably playing possum so they can trade up.

 

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How the Browns and Vikings could hold their breath and not take QBs with their first choices is beyond me. That's either real nerve or extreme foolhardy stupidity.

 

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If there isn't a good enough quarterback then it's more foolish to be tied to one for 3-4 seasons just because he's a first-round pick.

 

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Why do you take a QB for the sake of taking one if you don't believe they have the potential to be an upper echelon QB?

 

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Yep. The Vikings have seen firsthand what happens when you reach for a lousy QB in the first round. If they like Garoppolo or somebody a lot and can get a Watkins or someone like that at 8 - or trade down - they'd be crazy to take a QB there.

 

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The downgrading of quarterbacks by the usual anonymous sources prior to the draft is an annual phenomenon, and four years out of five, those quarterbacks become first round draft picks. If a team waits for a "can't miss" franchise quarterback, it can wait for a long, long time, longer than the men making the picks will be employed there.

 

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Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, Brady Quinn and the like agree with you Michael.

If as an organization you aren't convinced that the QB you take in the first round will be top starter why would you waste a first rounder on him? It makes very little sense to take a QB for the sake of taking a QB.

 

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I think it becomes a question of do you take Manziel or Bortles in the first if you can get Savage, Bridgewater or Carr in the second?

 

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Quarterback, being the highest-profile position, has the highest profile draft busts, too. But the percentage of first round flops is similar at all the other positions. It's just when a tackle washes out, or gets shifted from left to right in a tacit admission he's not that good a pass blocker, it's a Sunday notes item, not a national scandal.
For every QB flop cited here, I can cite a quarterback picked very high who succeeded and then some. Twenty current NFL starters were first round picks, most high picks, and while not all have been impressive, they all have that job.
Anybody remember how Tony Mandarich was the safe pick in the draft where Dallas chose Troy Aikman instead? I do.
Mizzou's point is a fair one, but the risk of waiting is that you are giving other teams power over your choice of a QB.