Admittedly, there is a lot at stake when you trade picks to move up. The final cost is the combination of what you had to give to move up, plus what you received in return, plus a higher salary. So I don't take that lightly.
But how many of Marino's backups over his seventeen year career set the world on fire--regardless of how they were acquired? And how many of his "replacements" over the past eight years have set the world on fire? If your math is as good or better than mine you realize we haven't drafted a good QB since Marino, we got lucky with Woodley (for a little while), and of course we did very well with Griese. Damn, is that two and a half men over the past forty-some years? Pretty damn pathetic.
If the FO thinks trading up for Quinn is the way to help us turn this thing around, I'm not going to argue with them. Every other option, in recent memory, has failed us. If the worst thing your opponent can say to you three years from now is, "So and so is a great QB for you guys, but you gave up a little bit more than you should have for him" I will laugh all the way to the playoffs and beyond.
It's not reaching or losing on a trade that has killed the Dolphins lately, it's whiffing on the players we reached or paid too much in trade for. If you have to pay blood money to land Quinn and he turns out to be an awesome player, who cares? Everyone in the league that doesn't have an awesome player at QB will wish they could have made that same "mistake."
I am really expecting a powerful draft out of Mueller this year, and until proven otherwise he has my full confidence. The handcuffs are off Randy--make us proud!
