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Who is andy dalton......i guess if i have to ask i wouldn't spend a third round pick on him.Let's just say for the sake of argument that (A) he's still available, and (B) whatever your top 3 needs are, BB's addressed them in the first two rounds.
Would you consider using a third rounder on him? I don't think he can be worse than, say, Kevin O'Connell. . . .
Who is andy dalton......i guess if i have to ask i wouldn't spend a third round pick on him.
Yes.
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IIRC, Hoyer is going into his contract year. It's simple to say, "Yeah, he's fine. We should just re-sign him and wait to draft Brady's heir-apparent until couple years before he retires." But, nothing can happen now with any Hoyer re-signing/extension until the CBA situation is resolved. Even after that, Hoyer may decide it's in his best interest to test the open market (I'm sure the Bengals would sign him in a heartbeat right now, if they could).
No, of course he wouldn't command Cassel's salary and the Pats would probably be lucky to get a 4th for him in a trade. The point being that, currently and maybe through the draft, the situation with backup/developmental/heir apparent QB is anything but settled and we never know when Brady may get injured again.
If Dalton is a guy who can eventually run the Pats' offense successfully (and I think he might well be) and the 3rd is were we need to take him to get him, NOT doing so would seem a bit short-sighted.
I agree with you, but, to play Devil's advocate for a second, what if the Pats felt that Greg McElroy could do almost the same in the fourth or fifth round? Would that change your assessment?
The gingerness concerns me. But I think we've got our back-up, and a developmental guy shouldn't be drafted with a 3rd.
If Dalton drops to the 4th, I'd be interested. But I'd be happy with McElroy in the 5th or 6th. Though I think both are going to go higher than anticipated. I'm reading a lot more on both that makes me think a lot more teams are interested.
That was part of the point I made in the earlier post - we don't know that "we've got our back-up" past the end of 2011, and the Pats may not even have a chance to speak with Hoyer now until after the draft. We also don't know that Brady is going to be able to play through the end of his new contract. If BB thinks that either Dalton or McElroy has an equal or greater chance at being Brady's heir as Hoyer might, it's not out of the question that he'll grab one or the other wherever the market forces him to, even at #74, if need be.