Magic Hypothetical Bradford Button Poll

[tempests]

Our alternative options at QB were really, really crappy back then. I'd take my chances with a healthy Bradford.

 

[Corbin]

Yeah. I remember it clear as day.
I'll have to dig it up, but that was Holmgren's last plea to Devaney. And when Devaney said no, Holmgren said "you made the right call."

http://www.turfshowtimes.com/2010/4/22/1437727/2010-nfl-draft-browns-prepared-to

Following up on the post below, Browns president Mike Holmgren says he's prepared to offer most the Cleveland Browns 10 picks in the 2010 NFL Drat and some of next year's picks to the St. Louis Rams for Sam Bradford.
IN a word, wow.
The catch is , he thinks the Rams will and should turn him down.
Should they?
Rams say there will be no surprises with the first pick



This is the best I could find

 

[Loyal]

I had this thought earlier... what would you do if I gave you a magical button that could do exactly one of two things:

1 - Go back to 2010 and make it so Sam Bradford never gets injured (knee, ankle, nothin' - no injuries)
2 - Go back to 2010 and make it so the Rams draft someone else (Suh, McCoy, whatever)

Which would you do?

Dewey, gotta go with #1...The one aspect to Bradford that I didn't like was his ability (or lack thereof) of elevating the play of those around him. But certainly, no trade for Foles would have happened with #1.

 

[Loyal]

Very good question.

I'd probably not draft him if I KNEW that the Browns for sure were offering most of their draft (and something the following year) for the rights to draft Bradford. Coulda signed like Matt Moore or Gratkowski and drafted Earl Thomas or JPP. Or both.

X, if I had been asked which way you would have swung on this question, I would have bet all that own that you would be going for the magically healthy Sam Bradford..Duuude..lol....ha!

 

[bluecoconuts]

Health, if he's healthy we are a totally different team, we're a more dangerous team and we're a playoff team. Our receivers are further in their development as well.

 

[Yamahopper]

I'm pushing the " He's just another player on another team now " button

 

[Alaskan Ram]

Draft hind sight, letting the Browns go Ditka for Bradford.
Build up the team with talent and find the next Kurt some other way....
Many qb's can be thrust into a perfect situation and potentially light it up....but very few can turn shit into gold.

 

[-X-]

X, if I had been asked which way you would have swung on this question, I would have bet all that own that you would be going for the magically healthy Sam Bradford..Duuude..lol....ha!

Yeah, I thought about it for a little while. But I came to the conclusion that even a magically healthy Sam Bradford is still just one guy. Throwing to the same group of also-ran receivers while playing behind the same meh O-line wouldn't have done us much good. In hindsight, we really should have built the rest of the team up after the fire-sale of 2009. Would have been more productive in the long-run. But that also takes into consideration that Devaney/Spagnuolo actually knew how to build a team. I don't know that to be true either.

 

[551staaa]

I picked the second option, but in reality, I would pick neither. I believe in my dad's often used maxim: "What's done is done". You have to live in the here and now. Everything that has happened prior to now has led us to this present moment and, quite frankly, this is a pretty exciting time to be a Rams fan. I could be wrong about the future (50% chance) but this team is starting to have that dangerous look to it. Let's play some football already!

 

[Legatron4]

Suh doesn't have us knocking on the door of the playoffs in 2010. And a Suh pick would just extend this decade long rebuild process another year or two while we wait for another competent QB to fall in our laps.

DAMMIT CHARLIE WHITEHURST.

 

[Rmfnlt]

Yeah, I thought about it for a little while. But I came to the conclusion that even a magically healthy Sam Bradford is still just one guy. Throwing to the same group of also-ran receivers while playing behind the same meh O-line wouldn't have done us much good. In hindsight, we really should have built the rest of the team up after the fire-sale of 2009. Would have been more productive in the long-run. But that also takes into consideration that Devaney/Spagnuolo actually knew how to build a team. I don't know that to be true either.

This is what I think they should have done... and I felt it at the time of that draft. Just too many holes. And, obviously, Devaney and Spagnuolo didn't know how to build a championship team.

They masked the problem the first year by dinking and dunking all over the place and it almost got them into the playoffs. But the underlying problems still existed and, when the boy genius - Josh McDaniels - came in and forced his sytstem on the offense, the Emperor's New Clothes were revealed.

One of the biggest mistakes Spagnuolo made (among many) was hiring the ego-driven McDaniels. It got Bradford injured and the team lost any momentum they might have had from the previous year. And off went Spagnuolo and Devaney. Such is life.

 

[Loyal]

Yeah, I thought about it for a little while. But I came to the conclusion that even a magically healthy Sam Bradford is still just one guy. Throwing to the same group of also-ran receivers while playing behind the same meh O-line wouldn't have done us much good. In hindsight, we really should have built the rest of the team up after the fire-sale of 2009. Would have been more productive in the long-run. But that also takes into consideration that Devaney/Spagnuolo actually knew how to build a team. I don't know that to be true either.

Well, if we are magically thinking BRadford and he couldn't be hurt..Maybe we got the next Brett Favre! Super Hero Sam.....

 

[FRO]

Bradford has all the talent in the world and is a good dude. All he needed was a better support cast and health. Not one of his former supporting cast went elsewhere and played better. Pretty much everyone played worse. It's a shame he could never stay healthy.

 

[iBruce]

We would've been in the playoffs with a healthy Bradford. Not sure the same could be said about Suh.

 

[MFaulk107]

Imagine Suh on our already stacked line! We'd be stomping teams! .........Literally

 

[LesBaker]

When he was healthy what did he actually DO. Not what potential he had, what did he accomplish.

I'd trade out of the pick if I had a time machine.