If we miss out on Daniels, is there another QB to draft in the 1st? (3 Viewers)

[Saint Taysom]

Honestly… I’ll take ANYONE. With every fiber of my being, I just know that the answer at QB for the Saints is NOT Derek Carr… as long as he is the QB, we’re going to be stuck in the mud.

KJ Jefferson? The kid from Tulane? A trade for Jake Browning?

…anything but another year of Carr (or Winston).

**The QB won’t matter as long as Dennis Allen is the HC. If Allen is still here, they could trade a 7th for Patrick Mahomes, and he’d blow it!

 

[DSnfla]

I have no faith in this coaching staff when it comes to drafting a QB, Do you?? My best case scenario is we move on from DA and the entire coaching staff except for Rizzi the special teams coach. We get an offensive minded HC like a Johnson or Waldron. If so there will be much improvement in DC. He's shown that with good coaching he can be a top 10 QB. The new HC hires a good DC to keep and maybe improve our D. We're going to either revamp out Oline or hire a Oline coach that can get them back to where they were before Marrone messed them up

 

[MV2]

Everyone but Carolina in our division could draft a QB. All of our records are similar so draft positions will be right by each other. Odds are we will have to move up past one of them if we are a few spots behind.

 

[LifeForceDave]

I don’t like penix. I feel when he misses he over throws receivers. In the NFL that leads to a lot of INTs.

 

[Jesse Custer]

Everyone but Carolina in our division could draft a QB. All of our records are similar so draft positions will be right by each other. Odds are we will have to move up past one of them if we are a few spots behind.

Don't get your hopes up. We're going to draft an OL from a Midwest dental school who's had three seasons cut short by injury.

 

[Chopper Man]

The Saints will not take a QB mark it down.

 

[Jesse Custer]

The Saints will not take a QB mark it down.

The only way it happens is if DA is fired. If DA is still here, prepare for another half-decade or more of mediocrity.

 

[BELOWSEALEVEL]

I'd like a shot at Cameron Ward, QB wsu. But Ohio State may pay more than the NFL for him.

 

[Patman255]

I have no problem with us taking the 4th or 5th QB in the middle of the first round if the right guy is there

2023 - Will Levis goes as the QB4 with the first pick of the 2nd round; not saying he's a future HOFer but he's brought life to the Titans when they were middling around with their journeyman QB (sound familiar?)

2021 - Justin Fields, going QB4 at the 11th pick

2020 - Jordan Love, going QB4 at the 26th pick

2018 - Josh Allen, going QB3 at the 7th pick

2018 - Lamar Jackson, going QB5 at the 32nd pick

And so on and so on. Good talent can be found even outside of QB 1 or 2 in a draft, and it can be found outside of the top 5 or even 10 picks in the draft.

 

[StevenAitsover]

I don’t like penix. I feel when he misses he over throws receivers. In the NFL that leads to a lot of INTs.

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit the Saints organization will end up drafting him. He remind me Jamies Winston coming out of college

 

[meily]

I have no problem with us taking the 4th or 5th QB in the middle of the first round if the right guy is there

2023 - Will Levis goes as the QB4 with the first pick of the 2nd round; not saying he's a future HOFer but he's brought life to the Titans when they were middling around with their journeyman QB (sound familiar?)

2021 - Justin Fields, going QB4 at the 11th pick

2020 - Jordan Love, going QB4 at the 26th pick

2018 - Josh Allen, going QB3 at the 7th pick

2018 - Lamar Jackson, going QB5 at the 32nd pick

And so on and so on. Good talent can be found even outside of QB 1 or 2 in a draft, and it can be found outside of the top 5 or even 10 picks in the draft.

Jake Harner

 

[woohoosaint]

Willing to bet that if we draft Daniels...we'll have people in here spelling it Daniel.

 

[SaintStephen1]

No to Penix who had season ending injuries all 4 years at Indiana and a couple of surgeries on his knees already. No to Nic who is too excitable and an absolute RPO system QB. Doesn’t pass well enough from pocket.

 

[TribuneUK]

What?!?!?! Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without saying so.

Cleveland been drafting QBs early damn near every 4-5 years.

Mayfield 2018
Mandrel 2014
Weeden 2012
Quinn 2007

Taking Watson broke the cycle of drafting a QB high, him not working out, then drafting another one once the last guys rookie deal was up.

I can see how what I'm saying makes little sense from that summary. I'm thinking of the multiple picks high in the first round under Sashi Brown, before 2018, where they passed over QB again and again, often trading down. Weeden and Manziel were late firsts, and players not actually rated that highly, and it was only when they spent their early first on a QB (Mayfield) that the franchise changed tack on the position. The most egregious example was in 2017 when they held the pick to select Deshaun Watson and traded it away.

In the end they had to throw that ridiculous trade and contract at Watson to try to fill the game's most critical position.

However, I can see the point that selecting the likes of Manziel and Weeden are also reminders of the folly of thinking you just have to draft someone at the position. They looked bad for trading the rights to select Wentz away, but after a strong start he turned out to be a poor QB.

 

[solarbear88]

After watching a few videos I'm not sure JD5 is the saviour.