Rumor from Denver

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by celts32

It would cost them 1300 points in addition to their 10th pick this year to move up to #2 for Gabbert. It's a steep price to pay but as i have said time and again on here if it solves the 20 year QB problem it's a price worth paying. Franchise QB trumps all other needs. If Shanny views Gabbert as the QB that he wants to build around then GO GET HIM.

Look at it this way...would you trade Orakpo & T Williams for Sam Bradford? I love those 2 players but I would do that in a second. QB is the hardest hole to fill and you are not even in the game until you have one...

Nope. Two quality players at the two most important positions after QB (the guy who protects the QB and the guy who rushes the other teams QB).

I understand and agree that QB is THE most important position and that franchise QB's are hard to find. BUT - the draft is a crapshoot at best, highly chosen QB's fail more often than they hit (No - haven't done the research on QB's taken in top 5 (recently) but believe this is true). Don't go reaching for QB's at the expense of building the supporting cast - it deprives the young QB of additional young talent and puts more pressure on him while playing the sport's most difficult position. If we were stocked everywhere BUT QB, then yes - by all means trade up. But we're not. Trading up for a QB when we have such an overall dearth of talent only sets up the highly rated QB to catastrophicallly fail.

Keep the pick or trade down. If the right QB is there, okay - take him. Then use remaining picks to help him. It's not like Gabbert is being touted as the 2nd coming of Manning or Elway. From all that I have read, he is not even rated as highly as Bradford was and, if Luck had come out, would be likely be the 2nd or 3rd rated QB.

Trading up is a luxury affordable to teams deep in talent. Otherwise, to build for the long term, cheap young talent that can be developed is what is needed. The QB issue will be resolved, first we need to build a team that allows a young QB to succeed and a good QB to thrive.