I get your overall point. If you truly believe a QB in the draft can be 'the guy', you go get him. But putting up the best QB pick in 20 years as an example is a little, well, skewed if I'm being kind
I can give exponentially more examples of teams who were sure they were 'getting their guy' and were smarter than all the other scouting departments, only to find out otherwise. We should know. We gave up 3 1st rounders for Robert Griffin. The odds you are going to get a top QB for decades in the draft are not great. Even the experts are wrong about as often as they are right on that front.
That doesn't mean if you think that guy is there you don't do everything you need to do to grab him. But you'd better, at least once every 10 or 20 years, be right about. Otherwise, your franchise is going to be mired in mediocrity. Again... we should know.
As far as the list of QBs we've drafted, if your point is, we've drafted far too few of them - I agree. I'd argue, given how hard it is to find a great QB, and the fact that once in a blue moon, one of them available in later rounds turns out to be very good, you should probably draft a QB every damn draft. We haven't done that. But I think that list undermines your argument. We suck at finding good QBs in the draft. Other than Kirk Cousins, that list is a testament to disappointment and failure. Whether fans say 'we suck at drafting QBs' or they say 'You know, it's a new day.... we are drafting well, I think this scouting department and front office will do better than the team has over the past 20 years' - it really doesn't matter.
If Henry wandered by this thread, he'd keep it short and sweet. He'd say 'Show me', or 'when things change, then I'll acknowledge they've changed, but until then...'
And we've thought things had changed before and been proven horribly wrong. Who among us, after Gibbs II and Daniel Snyder's reputation makeover, thought we'd have our dysfunctional owner rear up, usurp his own scouts and GM, and waste a 1st round pick forcing Dwayne Haskins on us? I mean, honestly, even me as negative as I've become would never have believed he was still capable of being that stupid and egocentric. That was just 2 years ago. Then again, even though we no longer believe Snyder saying 'never', the only exception is if he says 'I'll never change'.
Now THAT I believe.
Even with all that negativity spewed, my attitude with this current regime is that they've done well so far. Not perfect. But certainly an improvement. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to improving the roster and developing a winning tradition until I have a reason not to. That's not quite 'letting go of previous failures'. I wish I could, but it's going to take more than a playoff appearance and Jason Wright corporate speak to get me fully believing again. That's because I really believe Snyder is a blight and curse on our franchise and it may not be possible for us to have nice things as long as he is at the top of the food chain.
