It depends on the players. Would you trade extra first and second round picks to jump up and take Phillip Rivers when you could sit back and still take Roethlesburger at 10? Sometimes the difference in talent warrants keeping the picks.
Getting the top pick and gutting a team and relying on the top pick to step in and lead you to glory are two different things. The Leafs for example (my team) signed veterans to establish Babcocks new structure so when the influx of kids came there was something already established to plug them into.
Either way, Darnold, Jackson and Rosen will likely be out of reach and teams are going to bend over backwards to move up for them. The economical move would be to hover for the tier 2 class that we can pick without spending a ton of draft capital.
Yeah, I put Jackson up there with Rosen but realistically Rosen and Jackson go 1-2 and then you likely need a top 5 pick for Darnold. Then you start getting into the the 10-15 range where we will likely be. I don't think we are going to blow all our picks for a QB when we have so many holes in a draft class that you can still get a solid QB prospect with the picks we will have
Plus each issue is different.
"I don't want to play in a crappy NFL city with a joke franchise" and getting publicly angry over players not performing to a high enough level is far different from. "I went to get my AK-47 to threaten someone who disrespected me" or abusing others.
Every team has time to develop a QB if the end result is something special, patience is another story though. I personally would wait 2-3 years if the end result was Dan Marino.
It would be one of the few times we go after the right player at the right spot. He can probably be had in the 20-40 range depending on combine and workouts.
It's harder to judge since he's a smaller program QB. His completion% and YA have improved every year. Still, he has 1st round tools and you can get possibly a top 5 QB talent late because of the unknown from a small program.
Possibly, I'm thinking he will be ranked high enough that he might declare and we could take him at the end of the first. The tools are just as good as any QB of the draft.
Rushing yards and TD definitely counts, TD/INT ratios is a watered down stat to try to show that a QB who doesn't really throw many TD's is somehow great because he doesn't throw interceptions. Is Eric Wood a good QB? last I checked he has played over 10 years without throwing an interception which is better than Tyrod.
I find it strange that Tyrod is such a special QB that his greatness is the only one I have seen without the two most important stats a QB is typically judged by. Yards and TD's thrown.