Varking

It guarantees you that you are relying on less teams to mess up your chances going after “your guy”.

With no team around him Fields last 6 games: 94 of 138 ( 68% ) passing for 1000 yards, 10 passing touchdowns, 6 rushing touchdowns, 636 yards on the ground and just 4 INT. 0 lost fumbles. That’s a trash roster around him on offense and he’s doing work. Looking like anything but a bust at the moment. I won’t even compare that to how trash we’ve been at passing the last 6 games.

My logic is that QB is the most important position in football. If we pick high we have a better shot at the guy we identify as our guy. When you pick 24th you are at the mercy of the rest of the league. That’s my logic. As simple as that.

If you pick 2 or 3 you only miss out on 1-2 players. I’m sure there’s a guy still available that we would have liked. When you draft that high you are one of the few teams in the NFL that isn’t super at the mercy of everyone else hoping your guy falls. And if you are, it’s a lot easier to trade from 2 or 3 to 1 than it is to move from 10 to 1, for instance. I don’t claim to be smarter than any other fan on this board. I just see what we have been doing and can also see that it’s not been working. You can lose games or trade picks to move up. I don’t care which one we do. Just identify our guy and go get him. edit: I’ll also point out that I DO root for us to win every single week. I’ve said that in multiple posts. But when we lose I switch over to draft mode. I just want us to get a QB.

Not sneaking him in at all. I brought him up because he’s a young QB we passed on. We have made terrible decisions regarding QBs for the longest time. We have wasted a lot of picks and resources into going after guys who aren’t good. It’s time to take a chance on a rookie first rounder.

The kid from now too far down the road in Georgia? Justin Fields? Who Tepper wanted? And is emerging as a young stud despite whatever Nagy was doing in year one? And the year before we missed out on Herbert because of a late season “culture win” and yet our culture is no better. We need a QB.

Lawrence has been the best QB in football since the beginning of November. I think we need to define what young is. Under what? 30? 28? I think there are a bunch of good young QBs in the NFL. I think the Brady and Rodgers type guys have finally fallen off.

I want us to win every game. When we lose I pivot to well at least it helps our draft stock. I think there is a growing segment of posters here who are tired of winning “one pointless game” towards the end of every season that hurts our draft positioning and causes us to miss out on a guy like Justin Herbert. The folks who typically argue with “it’s not just a game, it’s good for the culture to win” have had it their way for years now and we haven’t gotten better. This organization desperately needs a QB fans, and the building, can actually believe in. For me, I would rather lose out and make it easier to stay where we are at, or even move up, if we determine XYZ is our guy. Years ago folks wanted to trade up to first overall and mortgage the draft for two years to pair Joe Brady with Joe Burrow. Looking back, I think this would have been the right move. A win at the end of the season moves you down the draft board and makes it harder to move up. But, for the culture, right? We missed out on drafting Justin Herbert by 1 draft slot. A slot we would have been in, or better, if not for one “culture win” to end the season. Then we passed on Justin Fields to grab an elite corner. Topper wanted Fields but Rhule wanted a corner. I think this was the third straight draft where we should have gone after a QB and we didn’t early. There were no worse cultures to be in than the Jaguars. The Jags couldn’t win games and their coach was toxic and wasted a year of a stud rookie QB. But in year 2, that QB is coming along and they are in the playoff hunt already. And they have reasons to be excited for the future. Chicago has reasons to be excited for the future. Carolina does not, yet. We need a QB. It’s time to go get one high up in the draft and develop him. I am tired of winning five games with retread QBs while we waste young talents rookie years under contract.

It’s based on Playoff position at that point. I believe if you make the playoffs the worst you can pick is 18th. And if you win the whole thing you pick last in the round.

Lawrence and Burrow both went first overall. How are they not two of your best young QBs in the NFL?

I don’t think the Jags were ever going to trade that pick.

Offensive coordinator too. Fields , Lawrence look much better with better offensive coordinators. Mac Jones misses McDaniels. Who happens to make a bad head coach. But he’s a great coordinator.

Blame Meyer on wasting a year of his.

Came in off of cramps and got an IV. Had to tell one of his WRs what to run after each play and he still threw another TD lol

I would have been willing to go up and get our guy for like 3 straight years lol

He did admirably but he shouldn’t be our long term head coach.

I think they know that have a stud there. He’s not going anywhere.

I blame this game, right now, on red zone play calling. That was such a stupid idea to run Darnold

And theirs is trash, too.

This is so hard to watch. Cmon boys!

We can score here. And then we are right back in it!

Trevor Lawrence with wither TD pass. They are back in the game against the Cowboys. Down 24 to 28

Absolutely stupid to run there down 14

Whistle was blown. We didn’t lose the ball. But that was an awful playcall. Wtf