I'd do it. Concerning Jake Long, let's keep in mind here he may be the best left tackle in the league or near enough to it, but he's also paid like the best in the league because we signed him under the old rookie contract rules. We're back in the salary cap era. That diminishes his value. Plus, he's now completing his 4th season here. How many does he have left on contract, maybe 2 more seasons?
As for Vontae, that's a blow because he's still relatively cheap and he could be a Pro Bowl caliber corner, but let's not confuse the guy for Darrelle Revis or anything. He lacks the consistency, and he always has going back to college.
The 1st in 2013 and the 2nd in 2012 are just par for the course, of course you'd lose those for the right to move up.
A quarterback gives you a rare thing, and that is long term stability for your franchise. You give me a quarterback, and I can build the rest. A good GM if he knows what he's doing is going to find you plenty of those 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th rounders, even UDFAs, that are solid football players and play roles for your team. But you know all those luxury moves the Pats make every year that help the rich get richer? You can make those when you have stability from a quarterback.
If I'm the GM, I'm thinking...you just get me the quarterback and make him young, and I'll build the rest. Or I guess rather as the GM I would be the one getting the quarterback too, but I just mean it's got to be super-top priority.