And there I thought the GM had the final say in who to draft and Gase has the final say on who gets to suite up and see the field on game day.....
As for the "Strangle the team again based on QB" comment, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the brain trust (including Ross) all decided together than the risk/reward trade-off on picking a QB with a mid-round 1st and/or spending even more picks to move up, wasn't going to return as much as using that pick on Harris. You continue to throw out these comments as if it's so damned easy to pick the winners and losers in the draft, including picking the hardest and most important position on the team.
As far as I can tell from your 100's of posts, you believe that either: A) Elite QB's are a dime a dozen and easy to spot in advance, so just trade up and get him; or B) that if identifying the right QB isn't easy, that the fan base would put up with trading picks year in and out until we get that special hit, and still be ok with the 4 or 5 years of recovering from ignoring all the other positions on the field.
As I've posted before, we had one of the best Coaches of all time AND one of the best QBs of all time, and between them, we only got to the big game once. When we reached for "famous" coaches post Shula (JJ and the Tuna), they all thought the right approach was to build the team and look for an above average QB when that obvious "great" QB wasn't available. What exactly do you know, from the safety of your arm chair, that we're all missing here?
