re: Just read a very interesting Saints mock on footballs future.

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We may as well let RG take our first round pick if we draft a QB. frick that, unless Andrew Luck is sitting at 27, you can't waste a pick on someone who is going to sit the bench for 5 years. Loomis/Payton will never let that happen.

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It's not like we are investing in a top 5 QB. This is a late 1st, early 2nd QB. Same place Drew was drafted. If the value is there, and you like the QB better than other players, you have to take it.

As for sitting, I wrote this in another thread and stand by it.

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Vick was first overall and Brees was a round later. Who would you rather have?

Alex Smith was first overall and Rodgers was the 24th pick. Who would you rather have?

Manning and Luck were the 1st overall picks. But so was Carson Palmer and JaMarcus Russell.

Look at that class of Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb, Akili Smith, Daunte Culpepper and Cade McNown. Aaron Brooks was taken in the 4th round of that year and did better than half those guys.

And a lot of starting QBs didn't start right away either. Tom Brady, Ben Rothlesburger, Chad Henne, Philip Rivers, Tony Romo, Carson Palmer, Colin Kaepernick and Drew Brees. (Drew was picked in the second round and didn't start a single game until his second year.) Eli has won two superbowls and shared time with Kurt Warner his first year. And look at what Kurt Warner had to go through to get a job.

Look at two years ago with Luck, RG III and Russell Wilson. In four years we could be saying how great Kirk Cousins is because he won a Super Bowl with the Cardinals or Rams.

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I'd rather get our QB of the future a year too early, than 15 years of rotating top 5 QBs.