Desjuan is the new Hoecht
Rams waive Nick Hampton
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Those names and several others are the reason that I'm reluctant to see the Rams use draft capital for a QB "with upside".
Yeah sure, there's been several other positions that were top 10 pick busts, but I think that recovering from a bust as a QB pick is probably the toughest thing for a team to recover from.
As you mentioned, Sam Bradford, RG III, Ryan Leaf, Wentz, JaMarcus Russell, Trey Lance .........
If you're saying that QBs bust at a higher rate than other positions, I agree.
If you're saying that it's harder to recover from a failed QB than for other positions, I disagree. The 9ers recovered very well from Trey Lance and they paid an astronomical price for him. The key is be decisive and move on quickly when you see he's not it.
If you are saying that Purdy is a recovery from the Lance pick, I'd have to say that is actually a case in point.
I'm not really sold on Purdy. And I can't think of another decent example of that, even if you argued that Purdy actually is a good example.
But yeah, mostly it's a QB position issue.
I wasn't actually focused on Purdy. I was considering that the 9ers have been very competitive throughout the Lance fiasco. They've been strong playoff participants and SB contenders despite it. That's the bottom line at the end of the day, which means that failed pick didn't cripple the franchise.
IMO, the biggest reason for that is because Shanahan didn't invest too much time in Lance. He never turned over the keys to the kingdom. The Lance scenario and the Rams still being a great team despite lacking 1st round picks eight years in a row show that the key for recovery of a failed early pick is a strong team infrastructure that drafts well overall and coaches that talent up.
Most of the teams where one of the top QB picks ends up being a bust don't do very well for a longer period of time than say, a top DB bust or maybe an OT bust type of player.
That's my point. The whiners have better coaching and defense than teams like Cleveland or the Jets, and have done better than other teams because of it .
Oh yeah ......... and fuck the whiners.
Hampton on the practice squad so I assume they can call him up if needed, but he was very pedestrian when on the field this year. Maybe he had a basement to his floor because he didn't seem to have much of a ceiling.