The "Inside Word" on the QB Search

[celts32]

Originally Posted by 30gut

If we sign Peyton Manning I wouldn't draft a QB in rounds 1-3.

Those picks would be better spent trying to add pieces to improve the team.

I would target developmental QB starting round 4 and down.

I think the Redskins would feel the same way and this is the exact reason I am lukewarm on the idea of signing Peyton.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by celts32

I think the Redskins would feel the same way and this is the exact reason I am lukewarm on the idea of signing Peyton.

Which was the same plan with McNabb and that set us back big time. I don't want go down that road again.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Which was the same plan with McNabb and that set us back big time. I don't want go down that road again.

Edit: nevermind, I see what you are getting at now. I agree. Can't get PM without also getting a young stud. Otherwise we might reprise the Curtis Painter Experience.

[celts32]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Which was the same plan with McNabb and that set us back big time. I don't want go down that road again.

Exactly...it's to big a risk to take without backing it up with as good a rookie QB as you can get your hands on. No one knows if Peyton is playing 1 or 100 more games...

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Which was the same plan with McNabb and that set us back big time. I don't want go down that road again.

The reason the McNabb fiasco set us back was because it was a trade and Shanahan did not have a viable young QB in training (and no Beck was not that). The following year, MS still did not select a young QB, so there you have two years down the drain and still at zero in terms of the QB position.

Peyton Manning will very likely be cut by the Colts, unless they want to keep him and pay him 28 mil. He will not cost us any draft picks and will allow MS to draft a QB in the first three rounds. The only risk from this will be paying Peyton, and that is it. If MS drafts a Tannehill or another young QB, you will have an immediate answer to the position and a future answer to the position.

[Mechanix544]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Which was the same plan with McNabb and that set us back big time. I don't want go down that road again.

Sorry, not the same thing. If he gets a clean bill of health, and is confident enough in himself, a healthy, motivated Peyton manning, and Donovan McNabb are nowhere in the same fvcking ballpark.