Your thoughts on Donovan McNabb...

having lived in philly for a few years, i realize that donovan is very respected by 31 nfl teams and their fans. unfortunately, the one city that doesn’t seem to respect is the one where he plays.

for a team like the rams that has WAY too many holes, giving up 2 picks in the first 4 rounds is too steep of a price for a qb that (while i still believe he can play at a top-tier level) really won’t help us to win yet. he just wouldn’t have enough of a supporting cast. and by the time we got the talent around him that we could make a run at something, he’d be too old and beaten to be the guy to lead us there. we need to draft guys that are gonna be around and playing solid football in 3 years when we actually have a chance to win.

so while i am a mcnabb fan and respect him as a very good qb, i’d have to pass on him for that price. i think if we don’t draft one in the first round this year, we should just get a stopgap qb for a year or two while we look elsewhere with more emphasis on the long-term.

I have to agree, although I think McNabb would be fantastic and would love to see him in a Rams uniform, a 2nd and 4th would be just too much to ask for a one year rental. If he was signed for 2/3 more years and the Rams could then draft their future QB next year in Jake Locker, then maybe.

Maybe a 2nd and a future draft pick if McNabb stayed after the next year, would probably be the best I could see.

However, I wouldn’t do it for even just the 2nd. As the other guys said, we have too many holes and can’t be giving away high draft picks for someone who wouldn’t be able to help much no matter how good he is and would be gone within a year or two – either by contract or because he is too beat up as has happened to Marc Bulger. Short term rentals are not the way to go for the Rams unless they cost us almost nothing.

I would much rather have him than Clausen and Bradford both. To me, if he were here for a few years which was mentioned, it is a no brainer. A second and forth rounder for a potential hall of famer, are you kidding me? That is too steep of a price? I hardly think so. I really just don’t see any QB in this year’s draft ever being a franchise QB. That is exactly what he is. I think he automatically makes everyone on the offense better. Furthermore, just look at every other QB being mentioned as a possiblity for us and then honestly tell me he isn’t twice as good as them. He eliminates the ? at the most important position in football. He has proven himself year after year and you would rather get a rookie that has a lot of ?. That makes no sense. I understand that there are a lot of needs. But last time I checked, QB was one of them.

What would you want to see happen at th QB position?

a forth rounder to me is irrelevent. Only if you are lucky you can find a really good player in the forth round. Would we really be able to upgrade from what we already have in the forth round? I don’t think so. So really to me, instead of having to draft a QB and have the ? you get a QB that is proven and only have to use a second round pick to do so. Mcnabb is a pimp.

back their 6th rounder for McNabb, but no way do we give a 2nd and 4th for a guy who is about at the end of his string. One year of playing for the Rams would about finish him. He probably could be a good mentor for a young QB that first year, which would help, but beyond that first year I just don’t see him as being healthy enough to keep going.