What do you guys think about trying to draft a starting QB?

I'm of the opinion we need to draft one next year (I was hoping they'd do it this year). I don't see any FA coming that make me think we should write a big check for. The backup situation is a mess, but I see that as a more universal problem in the NFL today. We need to keep Jay around until we have someone who at least shows some ability to start. So far, no luck sadly.

Ric I don't deny there have been some decent #2 type QB prospects in the last few years who may have been developed but how does that help a team that's devoid of talent on the OL to even protect who they have and on defense to run a 3-4 scheme as they wanted to do?

I'm sorry to disagree with you 'cause you know I seldom do (insert Pinocchio smiley here) but ya' gotta build from the lines outward and both needed some serious infusion of talent.  Pick a QB drafted in the last couple of year, even Garoppolo and can you honestly tell me we'd have been better off with that pick than with Goldman or Whitehair?  Two starters vs a backup QB with some potential to some day become a #1 and a third 3rd round starter in an injured Grasu.

I would also love to have a more stable situation at the #2 QB spot but not at the expense of spending a pick on a player I feel can start for me in year one or two over a speculative pick of a QB who at best won't start for at least two years.  Let's build the foundation of the house first before we pick out the paint color.

I like that ^^^^^

What I hope doesn't happen is a repeat of the Urlacher experience where we lost the QB of our defense, and we had no post-Urlacher exit plan. It really hurt our defense. I'm not comparing Cutler to Urlacher here... but I am comparing them as field generals of their units. Important, key players.  The QB, by the very nature of the position (he's handling the ball and directing the O on every single snap of the game on offense) is a key guy.

If we wait until we have the perfect OL before we think about the post-Cutler era, well, we'll have a long wait for that one. And I do agree that Fox is probably wanting to build a team strong enough that we don't need a great QB. But you still can't have a crap QB who gives games away either. That's my 2-cents worth anyway.

I'm going to be pretty disappointed if we wait until we are in full-blown crisis mode, before we try to draft a QB.

QUOTE JABF; "I'm going to be pretty disappointed if we wait until we are in full-blown crisis mode, before we try to draft a QB."

I'm gonna give Pace more credit than that. Based on Hoyer's age he may have been seen as a potential two year plan as a #2 for now while we keep looking for that one particular guy we want to develop. I don't think Shaw is necessarily that guy either. I think he was signed because he may prove to be a better alternative as a #2 than Fales.

So our QB of the future isn't onboard yet and there's no doubt we need to find one sooner than later but I still don't believe "just anyone" will do. It has to be the right one and I do believe or will take a 1st or higher 2nd round pick to get him therefore he has to be a BPA above another position we'd be drafting to fill with a kid with starting potential.

Looking at our potential needs today and the 2017 draft I'd say that a CB, a Pass Rusher, and a TE might all out rank QB on the basis of need if that player and a QB were ranked equally by Pace and his staff. So which one does he take? If true to his word he takes the position player not the QB.

We'll get one and I don't believe we'll be in full crisis mode either because I believe there's a real good chance Cutler will be here for much longer than some believe he will and he'll be playing well enough and consistently enough to win a championship. We won one with Mac and he was anything but a paragon of consistency or health and we got to one with Sexy Rexy which is still hard for me to believe.

Cutler is a far better QB than both of them combined but he's never had a defense as good as those teams had. When it was close in 2010 he did come one game short of a SB getting beaten by the team who won it. But some want to forget that like it happened in the middle of the last century or something not 5 years ago.

What has he had to deal with since then? One year of lame duck Lovie with Tice for an OC, three years with GM Emery and two with being the QB of the Trestman Follies and a rebuilding year under Fox with yet another OC and another offense to learn. Shit, I'm surprise he hasn't retired himself by now or asked for another trade. I probably would have.