Peyton Manning or RGIII your choice

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Originally Posted by biffle

He'll also use up an awful lot of cap room which could be used towards the same team building.

Maybe, maybe not.
The reports from Manning's camp suggest that he would be willing to structure his contract in favorable manner for the express purpose of not crippling that teams ability to improve.
And Bruce Allen has done a nice job creating cap space to allow them to sign a Peyton Manning.

And if we want to use those supposed odds you used earlier, the above plan has a success rate of, what, 5%?

You seem a bit salty huh?
The numbers are whatever the numbers are, the statistical outcome doesn't mean it can't or won't succeed.
We could represent the minor percentage that succeeds.

If you want to crunch the numbers and let me know be my guest.
Lets say Peyton plays for 3 years and each year they draft a developmental QB in the mid-rounds (3rd and down).

And he'll win us enough games that we'll be nowhere near the pick you would need to get the next Griffin, meaning it would cost much more than it would now, assuming we even lucked into another situation of a QB as good as Griffin being available and the team holding the pick having no need for a QB.

If we're shouting hypotheticals why not win the SB?
We don't have to get lucky for there to be other great QB prospects, there are great QB in almost every draft class.

And if a team wants a to draft a QB they can always trade up, draft position doesn't have to preclude a team from acquiring the prospect they want.