You should stay. But any quarterback who’s going first overall has a career that’s in serious jeopardy. A lot Don’t realize even the best potential quarterback can be ruined by being on a terrible team.what do you think Tom Brady would have been like if he had been on the Houston team that David Carr was on? David Carr seemed like an excellent quarterback but he spent many years of his career running for his life behind an offensive line that was largely theoretical, with coaches who weren’t helping him at all.
“David Carr seemed like an excellent quarterback but he spent many years of his career running for his life behind an offensive line that was largely theoretical, with coaches who weren’t helping him at all.”
Reminds me of Archie Manning and the Aints. Terrible waste of a fine quarterback.
Then there was Jim Plunkett who was physically and mentally wrecked by the Patriots and the 49’ers before being resurrected by the Raiders.
Being #1 overall is a mixed bag. Elway and Manning did well. Elway because he demanded to NOT play for the Colts, Manning because the Colts picked up Tony Dungy as coach and Bill Polian as GM.
Otherwise, you get David Carr and Jeff George. There is a reason a team has the #1 pick; its a sh**** team and a sh**** organization. While any NBA team is only a Larry Bird or Magic Johnson away from being contenders, it takes 20-25 really good players to have a successful NFL team. One guy isn’t going to do it all.
Brady lucked out as a sixth round pick. Belichick said he had no idea Brady was such a good player (nobody else did either), and wasn’t looking for a QB. He simply thought Brady was the best available at that point in the draft.
Belichick said he traded away some of his really late round picks so he could get a second sixth round pick, because he said sometimes you get a good player in the sixth round, but almost never below it.
Pray for Joe Burrow.