[Lotus]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Here's what I'd like to see in 2012.

1st QB: Rookie QB starting (by week 5 at the latest): Let's say Nick Foles. Not any inside info here or anything, I'm just putting it out there as an example.

2nd QB: Proven veteran who can step in a pinch. Looking at the available choices. I like Orton the best, (or maybe dislike him the least?). Look, I'm not a huge Orton fan by any means and maybe (most likely) a guy like Clausen has more upside. But I just want a guy who has starts under his belt and if pressed can step into action. System be damned. Looking at the possibilities right now, to me that's Orton. What, you're asking, makes selecting Orton so much a better backup than just keeping Grossman? And why would Orton come here to be a backup? To the second question, I don't know. To the first, because I don't want the crutch of Grossman anymore. The easiest way, in my opinion, for us to move forward at the QB position is to clean house there. I'm guessing here, but I think the Shanahans would be less inclined to look to their bench and go to the backup if Foles (again, just an example) is struggling, if it's not Grossman. Just tough out with the rookie.

3rd QB: Late round, even UDFA QB. We'll say Chandler Harnish because I know they've scouted him. This is the guy (meaning the position of 3rd QB) who tears it up in preseason, who can be coached up during the season, and emerges either as a valuable backup/future starter in a year or two for the Redskins or as trade bait

This is very similar to what I've been thinking. The only difference is that I would not use Foles as an example but would use Tannehill as a certainty.