Have you seen him talk though? He’s awfully goofy man. Forget the religious stuff, he’s like a Star Wars nerd who plays dungeons & dragons.
I think most stuff like this comes down to whether the guy is good or not. If he is, no one cares. If he's not good, people have less patience for personality traits and views they don't agree with.
QB with 3d or 4th round picks is just a waste of a pick. If you look back, we have only Dak as a starting QB drafted that low, and that was 10 years ago. The League has accounted for that by now. Purdy I am not even counting, Shanahan makes everyone half decent look good: Jones looked just as good, Jimmy G, etc... The point is, you can't even name a QB picked that late who was a successful starter who led his team to play-offs. However, there are actually quite a few QBs drafted high, even recently, that did or are doing it this year. Caleb, Daniels, Maye, Nix, Stroud, Lawrence, Burrow, Herbert, Love were all drafted since 2020, are solid to great QBs who played major role for their teams to make play-offs or will make play-offs this year. Tua and Mac Jones also had very good years at some point and helped their teams make play-offs, and Young has a chance this year. Most of these guys top 3 picks but some are later in the 1st, though all but Love top 12. My point is that you CAN pick up a QB in the draft and he can lead you to play-offs, this is not so unusual. It's been done as you can see quite a few times in recent memory. But you have to spend a high pick to do it, 1st rounder and likely very high 1st rounder. It's NOT been done in recent history with 3d or 4th or even 2nd. So why not do what other teams did with success? Yes, it will cost you, but do we want to try to make play-offs or not? If yes, we need a top talented QB. And that means a high 1st round pick, and probably top 3. Mel Kiper is not end all be all, but he does represent close to consensus view: https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/...per-big-board-top-prospects-players-positions . He has Moore, Mendoza, and Simpson as top 5 overall prospect, with Moore and Mendoza as top 2. Which is why I am hoping Moore will declare. This is not Kenny Picket draft we are talking about here. Now, to your point not everyone picked high will be successful. We know it first hand with Zach and Fields. But we have to keep trying because there is a reasonably high probability of getting someone decent as I showed you. But not with mid round pick, but with a top pick, and we need to try to do it this year because there are some top guys who might declare.
Agreed Which is why if we don’t use a first round pick on a QB this year, I’d prefer not to draft a QB at all…for most teams, but surely for us, using any other pick on a QB is a waste of a pick, whether it be a 2nd, 3rd, 4th rounder, don’t matter, it’ll be a throwaway. Use that pick on a positional player instead of wasting it on a delusional pipe dream that we can somehow “develop” a mid round QB into a viable starter. It’s a myth.
