If AR was our #1 target...

[James in PA]

....I'm comforting myself today with these thoughts, because I admit I wanted us to take him:

1) He wouldn't have helped us much at all this year and I DO think we gave a chance to compete THIS year.

2) We had no chance of trading up anyway. Arizona wasn't going to trade with us and those lying sack of $hit Texans wanted MORE picks, not less, at the very top. A trade up was nearly impossible.

3) He could very well be a bust.

4) If he does turn out to be elite, we'd be back to having a damn QB take up 1/3 of our cap before you know it.

 

[olyfan63]

For entertainment purposes only. Richardson would have fit Pete's SB winning model by having a young mobile QB on a rookie contract. I suspect he was our target at #5. (a GUESS, backed by nothing much). I would have been OK with it if we'd gotten a couple more Lombardis before he started taking 1/3 of our cap. Maybe 2024 was the target year for culmination of the PC/JS master plan.

I'm still a bit surprised he got taken at #4. Ballsy or stupid, only time will tell.

 

[onanygivensunday]

Pete (or John) said last night that they were staying at #5 for only two players... with Devon Witherspoon being one of them.

My guess is Anthony Richardson was the other one.

 

[James in PA]

I'm guessing that too. But perhaps "the other player" was Stroud or Anderson.