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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
I agree with pretty much everything that people have said about the Pennix pick.
The one thing that they have going for them is that we judge everything in hindsight. If it turns out that in four years Pennix is a top-5 QB, then the story won't be "how foolish were the Falcons to pay Cousins and then draft Pennix in the top 10?" The story will be "The Falcons have shown that if you think that a franchise-changing QB is on the board, you don't let the fact that you've got a veteran stopgap keep you from drafting him. Other teams could take a lesson from that."
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In the end, that's it. In the short term though, if you are spending money to go "all in" and yet burn a prime asset for some (hopefully) distant future, that foresight might end up benefiting your replacement more than you.