Stand by your man, or how I learned to stop worrying about my franchise QB...and started weeping about it

With our team's first pick in the NFL Draft, we select...a failure.

It happens every year. Several QBs are taken by desparate teams looking for the face of a franchise. And three or four years later most of those same teams are still looking for that face in the crowd.

The QB pick is the hardest to get right, and unfortunately, it is also the most important. For every Peyton Manning there are 5 Ryan Leafs out there with promises of a strong arm or "good pocket presence". Of course they end up playing in Canada or attacking reporters or playing for the Buffalo Bills.

Which brings us to one Rex Grossman.

Rex has been benched, and there is little doubt that he will never be a starting QB in the NFL again. I mean, when fans are chanting the name of Brian Griese to replace you, you know you are never going to play starting QB again.

But why did it take so long? Rex Grossman has sucked for years. He cost the Bears the Superbowl by playing like...Rex Grossman. Trent Dilfer won the Superbowl with the Ravens. He WON THE GAME and he got released cause they didn't believe in him.

Why? Why do they hang on to the shitty QBs they draft when it is hopeless, but cut and run with the ones they bring in who are only mediocre? I really don't know.

Is it ego? Is it a need to be the one who drafted the franchise guy? The one who coached a franchise guy?

Grossman, Joey Harrington, JP Losman, Vick before the dogs...all these guys sucked, and I mean SUCKED for years, but they still got the pass. Harrington was finally let go by the Lions after 4 years of shit.

Dilfer, Plummer, Culpepper, Bledsoe...all were brought in an dumped in record amounts of time when they didn't perform well enough.

Maybe the thing is, nothing sticks to your franchise like drafting a bad QB. So maybe it is the need to wash away the stink of failure that causes these GMs and teams to stand by their men. I don't know.

But I do know this. If I were a fan of the Bills, 49ers, or Cardinals I would start weeping, cause your QB sucks and your management is not going to pull the plug for years.


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Postscript
I will say that that the only good QB to come into the league in the last 2 years is Vince Young. Cutler looks OK, but not spectacular, and Leinhart...sorry.