But IMO if you are going to take a swing then put your best swing on it. I think that's what Dakota is saying and I agree. In any draft every pick is a swing but we all have to admit the 1st pick is the best swing. We all saw that with our GMs 1st draft. In his original slot the best player was available for him at the position of need. He ignored that and went down and grabbed the 3rd safety selected. QB is the more prominent position. You miss that and the show is over for at least 4 years and in reality much longer because the cycle will be repeated. The Atlantic had an article that points this out.VikingsVictorious wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:26 amIsn't a team using it's first pick in the draft taking a swing?Dakotavike wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:47 pm I'm gonna chime in here with my two cents. I don't know the X's and O's of football that most of you do. So I'm not gonna get into which players I like/don't like because I honestly have no idea. But I don't really understand the "don't trade up" philosophy some of you have. I just want the Vikes to get 'their guy'. That may mean we have to trade up. Fine, do it. Or that may mean we can stay at 11 and 23 and get Penix. Even better, do it. All I know is this franchise has never drafted a QB in the top 10 and look how that's panned out. And this is the first time in a long time we have the draft capital to go up and get their guy if need be. In my humble opinion getting a true, game changing QB is paramount and everything else comes secondary. So do whatever it takes (within reason of course) and get him. Sure, you can win some games without one. But we'll be stuck in the same purgatory we've been in forever. And sure, whatever QB we get may be a bust. But we HAVE to at least try!!! My biggest fear in this draft is KAM misses out on whoever KOC deems 'the guy' because he's playing moneyball. I'd rather them swing and miss then not swing at all.
https://theathletic.com/5256546/2024/02 ... ncy-draft/
Thirteen of the 67 quarterbacks who will have started a Super Bowl by Sunday were the top picks in their respective drafts. That includes 11 No. 1 selections in the standard NFL draft, a No. 1 pick in the 1965 AFL Draft (Joe Namath) and the top choice in the NFL’s supplemental draft in 1984 (Steve Young). That’s a staggering 19.4 percent of starting Super Bowl quarterbacks who were taken at the top of the draft.
I do think Penix will be the pick because it's the easiest and more ready to be a starter. In my mind I want nothing to do with him. He gets hit for that terrible championship game performance but he deserves it. Mr Happy feet. Harbough said before the Champ game Penix has the "IT FACTOR" That's a bunch of blabber. The IT factor is nothing but a talking point to avoid the question asked.
He couldn't say we are coming at him and he will eventually get happy feet because he will start seeing ghost rushers.