Footwedge;1165859 wrote:No you don't. You play the guy who does the best in camp. Draft positions should be irrelevant once camp starts. In your world, Brady would have never started.
Nobody knows how Weedon will play. If Mccoy outplays him...he starts. It's really that simple.
Jeanmar Gomez was an undrafted baseball player. Should he sit on the bench behind high drafted pitchers? Of course not.
if colt wins the job, whatever, we'll roll with him. but i guess my point is if they just wanted a qb to compete with colt with the mindset of if he beats him out, great, but if not, he can sit behind him and learn the ropes, they could have drafted osweiler, foles, cousins or wilson in one of the later rounds. they didn't do that and drafted weeden in the first round. weeden's also 28 and cannot really afford to sit out too much time. the team and the front office has invested too much in him not for him to play.
and when you say brady, i'm assuming you mean quinn. he was six years younger than weeden and the team could afford to let him sit and watch and learn the nfl game because the team was winning in 07 behind da (although i imagine the plan was for frye/da to be the stopgaps for a few weeks until quinn was ready but no one foresaw that team winning 10 games). once it went south in 08, however, the team was quick to get brady in there because you can't have first round picks just rot the bench
also, i don't get the jeanmar comparison. the baseball draft is nowhere near as important as the football draft in terms of relevance to the upcoming season. not to mention baseball players have to go through 4 to 6 levels of minor league play before reaching the big leagues. development in the minors is much more important than draft position for baseball.
