reality is that if the cost is too high, you stand pat, you dont panic and throw money away.
I didn't see any money thrown away. Please enlighten me.
I love how people assume that all fans are in the same boat, I hate to break it to you but some fans are every bit as savvy as some coaches.
Maybe not all fans but most and all fans are in the same boat when it comes to figuring out a teams plans. You don't know anymore than I do and I don't know anymore then you do in that regard. The fact is, with a cagey front office and coaching staff like we currently have, we don't know nothing. Hell, even evaluating what we saw on the field on Sunday is a guessing game because without knowing the specific play call we can't even figure out who made the mistake.
I believe that at least 4 of us called the 3-4 swapa huge error, some of you argued mightlily against us but we were right. Some of us called the Mcrapp debacle what it was, and some of us have been pretty much on the money in regards to the mistakes of this franchise, thats not hindsight thats called paying attention.
You have the right to believe you were right and the rest of us wrong. I have the right to disagree with you. And don't feel like you have the market cornered on being in the minority who happen to be correct. Even a blind squirrel and all that...
You keep saying " thats what the market price was" as though that makes it ok, no that means you stand pat, improve your team and continue to get better, not throw all your eggs in one basket like Mike Ditka and hope its all ok.
Standing pat is going to get us another year without a franchise QB. Oh, it would get us some more good players and if they had done the same in this years draft as they did in last years we would have won a few more games this year. Maybe hit .500. In other words, just good enough to break everyone's heart again but not bad enough to finish in position for a franchise QB.
When are the names E Manning, A Rogers, D Brees, B Rothlesburger, P Manning, and T Brady going to sink in far enough for you to understand that in today's NFL you have to have a franchise QB to win it all? Those 6 names have won 11 of the last 12 Super Bowls.
This is a passing league now and with the way Goodell is working at increasing the protection of the QB it is only going to become more so. That starts with the QB. It is nice to say that any team can win it all but the truth is that it is seriously hard to do without an elite talent under center.
The price to move up for Griffin (or Luck) this year was steep. No question. And no question it is a gamble.
But Ryman, no one is right 100% of the time. Not even you.