Franchise QB

I want Robert Griffin the 3rd as the Miami Dolphins quarterback of the future. Luck would have been it, but that appears not likely anymore. Barkley seems like an Eli Manning level and Landry Jones to me is a Jay Cutler only less mobile (besides the fact that he hasn't been anything good since Broyles went down and seems unable to even hold onto the ball anymore). Both of those QB's are the "franchise" guys for their teams, both have been traded once. With them still come questions and given how big Dan 'The Man' Marino's shadow looms in Miami, I suspect both would be eaten alive by critics if they cannot perform right away. RG3 however, is an enigma. He makes Baylor a team, much like Luck does with Stanford, plus his mobility instantly helps him as a rookie (example: Cam Newton). He is legitimately smart, having graduated already and wanting to work towards his masters in law next year. My worry is that that means he will pull a Matt Leinart and withdrawal from the draft to go back to school, although he'll take much harder classes than ballet. I foresee a run and gun looking offense with him and Reggie Bush and Brandon Marshall. Bring in the grit of Bess and hopefully the improved toughness of Daniel Thomas and that offense could easily take off. Still would need half of an offensive line, a legit number 2 WR with speed, plus there would be bumps on the road for the rookie QB. But the success of Andy Dalton, Christian Ponder and Cam Newton cannot be overlooked. The success rate of young players is higher now because of the information overload. They see what the media bitches about, they know about mistakes players made before and most want to succeed so they do good and listen.

If a new coach comes into Miami, they will take a QB, and we all want a new regime in there. They could move down and get more picks or just grab best available and have another year of Matt Moore with Pat Devlin as the backup. But that would be playing the field and hoping you are either bad enough while rebuilding/improving your team this year for RG3 next year, or hoping that he'll be around where ever you end up in the draft. The best hope is that he stays ranked as the 3rd or 4th best QB after the combine and comes out this year. There are a lot of variables there, but many teams worse than the Dolphins have young QB prospects and he could easily slip down to the bottom of the top 10. Even if it would require trading multiple picks for him, I suggest they do that. I believe this year they have all of their picks finally after the Marshall trade, but losing out on a high pick or two is worth it for the potential game changer RG3 is. I believe that in the first few years Luck will likely be the better player (depending on if he plays), but 5 years after this draft Robert Griffin III will be the best QB of the bunch. Not that Luck will be bad, but Griffin III could be Mike Vick of early last year, only consistent all the time. The only thing that scares me would be the probable injury factor of the sleek mobile quarterback. However Matt Moore is doing damn fine for now and would be a perfect backup. Not to mention this team would and could easily get free agents to fill in the other holes they have. So being a few picks down isn't going to ruin the team, if all goes well the 1st rounder they give up would be in the 30's anyways.

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-Jason