TenuredVulture wrote:I've been thinking about this trade, and my opinion of it ranges from meh to my goodness if things go well, the Eagles will be a non-factor for at least four years and this will go down in history as an historically bad trade that people will talk about for years to come. Imagining a Hindenburg type disaster isn't really hard--say Bradford gets hurt before he can be traded for draft picks and Wentz turns out to be a bust. You've got a team that really can't even start a rebuild for a couple of years. And even if Wentz turns out to be a competent NFL QB, the lack of draft picks means it's going to take time to get him the weapons any QB needs to be productive.

This trade reflects in my opinion the over-valuing of QBs in the NFL. More than any other sport, a single player, even a QB, can't make much of a difference. On average, a QB is only on the field half the time.