Of course they don't....in your opinion and it doesn't fit your narrative. Yours and others narrative that the Packers are the only team to ever spend draft capital on a QB, while they already had a top starter is just not true, but I don't expect you to admit it.
You're aware that I respect your opinion on most topics but you're completely off base if you truly believe any of the teams you mentioned were in a situation even remotely close to the one the Packers found themselves in during the draft in 2020 (see my last post on the reasoning behind it).
I'd include some others to a lessor degree as well:
Jimmy G/Lance
Brady/Trask
Garropolo isn't even close to being a HOFer. Trask was the last pick of the second round and with Brady being 47 years old at the time Trask's rookie contract is up it made more sense than the Packers selecting Love.
Right....but those don't fit the "exact" parameters some want to be able to use in calling the Love pick a complete failure on Gute's part.
As I've mentioned repeatedly (but you continue to conveniently ignore) it's way too early to consider the Love pick as a failure. It's strange that you don't even consider there's a chance it doesn't work out at all though.
TT drafting Brian Brohm with a second round pick (#56) seemed like a huge waste too. However, it is what GM's do when they see what they perceive to be a bargain at a position that they might not be fully sure of in the near future.
Actually, Thompson drafted Brohm made significantly more sense than Gutekunst selecting Love.
I don't think it was just the "BPA" and "high value" that Gute saw with the Love pick, I seriously think he was planning for a potential future without Rodgers and this was the first step in the plan. Was totally worth a shot. Obviously as time goes by and Rodgers stays in GB, keeps playing at a high level and Love doesn't show much.....it will be very easy to use that 20/20 hindsite vision and say "See, what a waste...we would have won a few more Super Bowls had Gute used the pick(s) on other guys." Then use todays knowledge of all the studs that were drafted after Love and pretend the Packers would have taken them instead.
The fans criticizing the Love pick don't use hindsight to criticize it though as it was pretty obvious from the get-go it was a terrible idea.
You know if I recall the Packers drafted Don Horn in the first round of 1967. He was the 25th pick and the Packers were World Champions although we were in competition with the AFL. Now Bart Starr won the MVP in 1966. How do you think he felt when Lombardi took this dude in the first round? Never recall him saying anything about it. Never recall anyone criticizing Lombardi.
Finally, someone being able to come up with an example that's actually comparable to the Packers drafting Love last year.
Good find/memory. I agree, the Love pick wasn't the first or last time the situation has occurred, but some want to use it like it was a complete anomaly and thus a terrible move on the part of Gute.
I still consider it to be an anomaly if the last time it happened occurred 53 years ago.
I think most Packer fans, media and probably the players dropped their jaws when Love was picked, I did. However, its part of what goes on in Football and after it set in and explained a bit by the Packers, it made sense ....to me. At this point he is pretty much like what Brunell, Detmer, Nall, Brooks, Hundley or Matt Flynn were. A drafted QB, that served some years as the primary backup.
Aside of the fact that none of the other quarterbacks you mentioned were drafted before the fourth round.
I will add one:
Drew Brees and Phillip Rivers
Once again, the Chargers were found themselves in a completely different situation than the Packers last year though. San Diego was coming off a 4-12 season in which the team even benched Brees for five games to start Doug Flutie over him.
As a side note, they actually drafted Eli Manning with the first overall pick that year despite him declaring he won't play for the Chargers. They later acquired Rivers in a trade with the Giants.
