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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

There's a trend with Shanahan where he seems to think that spending a high pick on a quarterback is not necessary because there's an abundance of undeveloped quarterbacks out there with high-round skill sets he can get basically for free. The reasoning can essentially be summed up as "why spend a first round pick on an undeveloped Blaine Gabbert if I can get an undeveloped Jonathan Crompton for free?"

I don't know if he's right or wrong (I suspect his guess is correct), but we're a year in now without McNabb, and Rex Grossman's still the starter, which at least suggests that Mike Shanahan hasn't quite discovered how to take an unwanted quarterback with a good skill set and make him a franchise level player.

I think he's on to something, but if John Beck is the best example of an unwanted player who fits what Shanahan is trying to do, I think it's difficult to believe to think Shanahan is close to finding an elite quarterback in the trash heap. And I think to a degree, both Mike and Kyle Shanahan expected to be further along at the QB position right now, even if no one else in the world did.

Well, Shanahan did extend an offer to Romo during his time as Denver's HC, but Romo decided to go to Dallas.