If you want an effective QB…..
DRAFT OFFENSIVE LINEMEN

Draft the best OL available with your 1st round pick
Draft the QB later or maybe next year

Mike Singletary, for all his shortcomings at SF drafted two really good OL’s
RT Anthony Davis & LG Mike Iupati
THAT made the difference in Alex Smith

Now 2 of 3 of those worst case scenarios panned out. Kolb was often hurt, played poorly, and took the Cardinals for a boat load of money and the Eagles managed to draft a stud in Lance Kendricks with that 2nd round pick from the Cardinals.

Luckily for Arizona though their evaluation of DRC was dead on. He is very talented but is completely devoid of focus and commitment, making him an overwhelmingly under performing player. Which translated to him being a bad teammate and bad corner.

So at least the Cardinals can feel a little vindicated by knowing how utterly expendable DRC was when no one else did.

Yep, the same Nate Allen who’s about to lose his job to Patrick Chung.

“Patrick Who?”

Yeah, exactly.

In those games he threw for 3,124 yards, 17 TD’s, 11 picks and roughly 58% completion. On top of that 8 of those picks were in 2011. He had the team at 4-0 this year before going down.

Considering they stood him back there with no running game and pretty much let D lineman run at him free to the tune of 57 sacks in 15 games (4 a game) I think if the Cards weren’t looking for a fall guy in the locker room they’d have seen Kolb wasn’t the problem.

I’d say the Cardinals failed Kevin Kolb way before you could ever blame a bit of this on him.

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In his four years at WVU Geno Smith ran the ball 245 times for 342 yards, lighting the world on fire with an average of 1.4 yards per carry. The numbers of carries are inflated because scrambles that make it back to the line of scrimmage and the yardage is inflated thanks to a single run of 67 yards.

Geno Smith ran a 4.78 40, which was .18 slower than well known running quarterback Andrew Luck.

He’s not a running quarterback. He is a drop back passer.

For anyone trying to say that Arizona didn’t lose out on the trade… I can give you 20 million (wasted) reasons why they did.

In hindsight, neither team got great gains out of it. But does that mean either team should regret the gamble? Not really, sometimes you have to play the cards you are dealt. Things would be different if there were a ton of serviceable quarterbacks on the market that summer, but there weren’t.

To all the “trade Fitzgerald” commentors, since when does a mediocre team trading their best player improve things? Using that logic, the Vikings should immediately trade AP, the Texans should’ve traded AJ years ago, and the 49ers should’ve traded Gore years ago. (All would be horrible, horrible moves.)

The only hting Philly “won” is they have less $ involved in the release of the player. Curry and Boykin are still unproven.

Two years from now, if Curry and Boykin are significant role players/starters or better, then we can say Arizona REALLY lost this trade.

Right now, its a push.

Just WOW!

Kolb is a smart man, I bet he invested wisely and saved plenty. Too bad it didn’t work out for him in the desert……

In 6 games in 2012 was sacked 27 times. There are guys who played all 16 games that get sacked less.

Granted I’m sure some of these are due to holding too long but I seriously doubt it accounts for more than half.

Not that I ever think he’ll be an elite QB, I don’t, but a Top 20 serviceable starter? Think the jury is still out on that.

Before he got hurt last year, he had 8 tds and 3 ints with an 86.1 rating playing behind one of the worst NFL offensive lines I’ve ever seen in my life.

If he can ever stay healthy (a HUGE if, I realize) some team might actually be able to turn this guy into something.

Or not.