Dr. Who

Cleveland, Jets, SF, Pittsburgh, Cardinals, just off the top of my head, lots of teams will be jockeying to get one of the 2018 class. Cleveland has two ones and three twos. Jets and 49ers will not trade out. No guarantee OBD will end up with a chair when the music stops. Mahomes and Watson were birds-in-hand. I consider them potential franchise qbs. I would have taken Mahomes at ten. Unless the Bills are worse than their habitual "wretched mediocrity" it will cost them much more than the first and third they gained by trading out of ten. Peterman would have gone much earlier if he had a decent arm. He doesn't and I doubt his ceiling rises above okay backup. P.S. Forgot about the Chargers. Nice avatar. I somehow acquired a feral colony about ten years ago. I myself am servant to an ancient Persian.

Nicely played.

Popgun arm. Career backup at best unless his arm strength improves significantly.

He must mean Chad Kelly, no?

I read somewhere, and now I cannot recollect where, that McD was making all the calls on this draft, that he is very much a Taylor supporter, and that Whaley was the fella likely pushing for a Mahomes or Watson. (I rather liked Whaley and would have taken Mahomes at ten, btw.)

Agreed. Classless and lack of compassion often go together.

The rhetoric that counts for wisdom nowadays would make rocks cry.

McProcess.

Me, too. Now all we need is the new Jim Kelly.

It's not impossible that Whaley may read this board. Thank you for your efforts, Mr. Whaley. Nice job undermined by dysfunction. Best of luck and hope you land with a more rational organization.

I'm fine with a tank season. We need to be in the best possible position to draft qb in 2018.

Agree with most of this, but they have two fifths and a sixth. Unless new math = 3.

Yes, don't worry. You have job security for sure.

How about a thread for reasonable, prudential posters who don't simply emote a knee-jerk response every time?

I like Mahomes, Trubisky, and Watson. I now hope, of course, the 2018 qb class still looks as strong a year from now. Scrutiny and the uncertainty of real life tends to alter things a bit. Clearly, the scenario you paint is plausible. I saw a list of five or six names, but the three you mention are the only ones I recall.

Presumably it allows one to package two ones to get higher in the first if need be.

I would have taken a qb at #10, but this draft appears strong to me. I'd rather have quality at positions of need. I expect three starters from the top of our draft. The extra 2018 1st will help secure a qb, though unless we fail miserably, it won't be one of the top two.

I agree it is suspicious.

Do you think someone in their FO was leaking info to McD?

I would have taken a qb. We went a different direction. The folks who hate Whaley tend to like the move we made, but they don't want to give him credit for it. That's the unfairness I see.

Fwiw, Bill Polian was not very enthused about Robinson. Says his pass protection is a big problem.

If you're going to blame him for everything that goes wrong, you should credit him for good moves as well, But the haters are convinced and don't care about justice.

Excellent post. Thank you.

+1 John C. Well thought out as usual.

I would be rather shocked, but in a good way if it's Kizer. He's worth taking a shot in the second.