I'm one of those tanking crowd … and you're right, I'm not happy about the move, and I agree that Fitzpatrick is Matt Moore on steroids. Well put.
Your prediction that this will be an exciting roller coaster with FitzMagic at the helm seems spot on to me. But I also know that Fitzmagic doesn't tend to start every game. For whatever reason the coaches always seem to go with the young guy when Fitzmagic starts running cold. The other shoe that worries me as a tanker, is that this move looks like we may reach for one of the bad QB's everybody is hyping up.
This QB draft reminds me a LOT of the one where everyone hyped up Jake Locker, Blaine Gabbert and Christian Ponder. Yeah, they all went in the 1st round too, not just Cam Newton who went #1 overall. So when I see Haskins, Lock, Jones and any QB not named Kyler Murray, I just keep thinking about that 2011 draft … and all those over-hyped products. Newton was legit … but the second best QB out of that draft was a 2nd rounder named Andy Dalton … and that's just not good enough for my tastes.
I'm hoping we successfully tank in 2019, despite the accurate description you have of Fitzmagic. And I'm hoping we don't draft a QB in 2019, which also seems unlikely. And I'm hoping, beyond hope, that we actually land one of those 3 actually elite QB prospects in 2020 … and avoid yet another decade of mediocrity.