Originally posted by dreadlockera
It would take both #1 picks and alot of luck to land any of the top three QBs in the draft. Even less likely we will get a good fairly young QB via free agency. Manning would be ideal but very unlikely. Couch will stay put with the uncertainly about starter in Cleveland. Brunell, Garcia and Warner are stop gaps until we can get a young kid to take over the reigns.
Baltimore gave up this years #1 to get Suggs last year (not bad though). Wright is putting up good #s and led them back from a 21 pt deficit earlier in the year and into the playoffs almost beating a great Tenn team. He has the mobility to create havoc on D and I really get the feeling the coach loves the kid, he was 3rd on the depth charts starting the season. I dont think its impossible to trade one of our #1 picks to them for bolller, assuming Wally fetches us a #1 pick. We could then go either WR or T with the other and have a solid foundation for the future. Last years QB draft was exceptionally deep and it was 3-4 good QBs. This year is much less, 2 maybe 3. If we could get a top 5 pick most years (in Boller) for ONE #1 pick that would be the best option. Boller has great upside and perhaps is better than Rivers and below in this years draft. Perhaps better than Ben too. Most will say its impossible, but without a #1 Baltimore will feel the sting of last years trade. They may part with one of their good young QBs and Boller will fetch the pick they want before wright will.
Why does everyone think it will take so much to get a top 3 QB (as in Eli, Roth, or Rivers.....yes, rivers is better then Loseman).
It's not about the talent of the QB. It's about what teams need. Look at the draft order, and tell me who's taking a QB in the first round that's ahead of us.
Charges are the best possibility, though they have Breese.
McNown played well for Arizona at the end of last season. That puts them on the fence for drafting a QB when they have much m ore pressing defensive concerns on their team.
Raiders- SHOULD draft a QB, but that's far from a given.
Those are the most likely candidates for drafting a QB in the first round, and ALL are on the fence. Not many teams draft a franchise QB high in the draft without having a glaring need. Not many teams are willing to give up a first round pick high in a draft with this many great looking WR's for a QB that they might or might not need.
I think it is VERY possible for us to trade high in the draft. If we get 2 first rounders, and trade away a pick from next year, we're top 10 material. That's an eli possibility, and a Roth probability.
We have what we need to get the picks, we just have to get the balls to do it.
Now, as for that glaring need on our O-line. YES we have a glaring need, NO we shouldn't draft an OL higher than a QB in this draft. It takes 2-3 years to groom a good QB, we need to start on that now..SHOULD have started on that years ago. But we've neglected it. We'd be foolish to draft an offensive line and not have a QB behind it to throw. Whereas, if we draft a QB high, and try to fill gaps on the OL low, and in FA .......hoping for the best we could be set. At the very least we could draft OL next year, as OL are MUCH quicker to become starters in the NFL compared to QB's.