Having turned the page...

Just wanting the draft to happen. I want to know who the new QB is going to be (honestly, have low hopes for developing him - just hope he is a guy that can rise above our screwed up process) and how Poles is going to navigate our needs with 4 picks. I'd like another impact player at 9, but he will probably trade down (lol, he can't resist a little Madden) since we have so many needs. Want this stuff over and want to see how we look in preseason (not a great gauge, but it will be our first look)

I want to explain where I think "sitting a QB behind a vet for a year" does not actually yield the results of success people think it does.

Please, this is only my opinion. I am not, you know, critiquing anyone's ridiculous idea this works 😀.

For every "Pat Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers sat behind good QBs and now they are now good", there are a hundred guys like Ryan Mallet, Jim Sorgi, Jimmy G, and Matt Cassel. If this were the case, CJ Stroud should have been terrible his rookie year.

What is the case with Aaron Rodgers, Pat Mahomes, and Jordan Love, is when they started playing, all of them were in an established system with good players around them with good to great coaches and a good front office that is ahead of the game. They were picking with the luxury of not needing a QB desperately RIGHT NOW.

What is usually the case with a team having the #1 pick is that it is a dumpster fire. It has terrible coaches and few good players. The team management does not have the ability to guess what makes a player good, and rely on luck and their "instincts". And if the ownership decides to get involved like Carolina's does, say good night to your hopes and dreams.

With that, I think maybe Caleb Williams has a puncher's chance of succeeding here with the Bears.

tl:dr: Brasil talks about QBS. Safe to skip his meanderings and get on with drinking your coffee.

corrected one thing I can't find. 

I agree 100% that teams don't know how to develop QBS. A few things play into that.

(1) Mainly, OFFs are so complicated that the starting QB needs almost 100% of the reps. Toom Moore when he ran the INDY OFF was asked why the backup didn't practice more. He said it was because Manning needed all the reps and if Manning went down they were F----- and they don't practice F-----.

(2) With a few exceptions college QBs coming out are the best players on the best teams with the best WR/RB/TE/OL of all the teams they play. As a result college open is different from NFL open and NFL DEFs are faster and more difficult to adjust against. Some guys after 2-3-4 years of throwing to college open, can't adjust to NFL open or read the DEFs. (Processing.)

(3) For QBs drafted later, few teams have a process or can afford to set up a process to retrain these guys. Its the nature of the beast. NFL coaching staffs average about 3 years I've read. So you can't invest in a 4th round QB. Its sink or swim.

My biggest frustration with the "sit the QB" crowd is they only give lip-service to one very important fact. Most, if not all, of the QBs who sat (and they really only name 3 - Mahomes, Rodgers and Love) were sitting behind AP HOF QBs who were still playing at a very high level. ASmith had his best season and was mentioned in MVP conversations. We are also talking about Mahomes--soon to be GOAT QB and Rodgers--a first ballot HOF. I believe 100% that they would still be the QBs they are if they had started from day 1. Others disagree, I'm not fighting over this. If you disagree, fine. We disagree. Burrow also sat for a year but he's had injury issues so he's on my wait and see list. Allen didn't sit, Hurbert sat for 1 game, Stroud didn't sit, Lawrence didn't sit...

We like to act like sitting your QB means you end up with a HOFer. Not true. Not even close.

If there were an advantge in sitting, I think we would see more 2nd round or later drafted QBs emerge after 3 seasons. But we don't. To me, thats the biggest issue. We still only point to 3 QBs (you only named 2--Rodgers and Love) where sitting worked. Where are the rest of the QBs that sat?

Cousins? Dak? Do they count? Why don't their names come up?