Game 2: Steelers vs Seahawks

[Bulltalk]

^^^ My basic feeling about a guy like Foles now is that I might have been a lot more willing to draft such a potential with flaws in previous years (Sanchez, Freeman, for example) when we weren't in such a desperate situation at the QB position.

Now, however, we've given ourselves no margin for error in this regard. We have no Hasselbeck, no QB to constructively hold-the-fort while such a QB may or may not develop. We need as close to a sure thing as we can get, or we could be doomed to mediocrity at best for several years to come.

What I'm trying to determine now is how many QB's in next year's draft are close to being sure things in terms of those abilities and fundamentals (I'd add leadership) that you mentioned? I know Luck is one of them. How many others truly are? Barkley? Jones? I don't know.

Of course I understand that you never know until it happens. But I want the guy we draft in the 1st round next spring (we better!) to give me a very strong feeling that he is just such the guy.

[Sweezo]

^^^ My basic feeling about a guy like Foles now is that I might have been a lot more willing to draft such a potential with flaws in previous years (Sanchez, Freeman, for example) when we weren't in such a desperate situation at the QB position.

That's pretty much the same way I feel about it. When you had Hass/Homgren/Zorn in place, there was a framework in place and not the same sense of urgency. Now, we don't have time to take a chance.