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Message: [QUOTE="nomar, post: 2876239, member: 651"] In hindsight, are you taking Akili Smith over Marshall Faulk?* I get the economic arguments, I do, but at a certain point investing money into a QB who busts is not smarter than paying a lot of money to a guy who can score 25 TDs a year, no? The notion that Barkley could be a 10-time MVP and Darnold/Rosen/Allen could be not great, and this would still be a bad move because we didn't draft a QB -- any QB -- is crazy to me. And forgive me if I'm misinterpreting the argument, but that's what it seems to be. It's like going for it on 4th and 5. Depending on the circumstances, the numbers might tell you it's not the right move. But if you have a good feeling you're going to make it, and then you do make it, was it still the wrong decision? Is the argument simply that Gettleman made the wrong decision at the time? We're past that. I agree that if Barkley just turns out to be a very good RB, and Darnold or Rosen end up being very good QBs, it will have been a mistake. We're all on the same page that the idea was that Barkley would be a lot more than that. And so far, it seems that's going to be the case. [SIZE=3]*I know they weren't in the same draft class. Just using them as examples.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]