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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 875252" data-attributes="member: 7261">You are right, that wouldn't be fair, the Packers did not have the 1st, 5th or 6th pick in the draft.  Moreover, if they had wanted to obtain one of those picks to select any of those 3 guys, it would have cost them a ton of draft capital this year and into the future.The next QB taken after Love was Jalen Hurtz at 53.  Again, he would have cost us our #30 pick or probably our 2nd and 3rd.  I doubt many here would have been happy with that.So you wait until 2021 and then what?  Wait for the 4th QB to drop again or make your big move and shift most of your draft capital to a high pick?Nobody has a crystal ball to know what the 2021, 22 or 23 draft will look like, nor where the Packers will be picking.  However, when your average position has been the 26th spot over the last 10 drafts, odds are probably good that you are fighting with a lot of teams for that #1 or #2 QB prospect and having to invest a lot of draft capital to get him.  The more I read and the more I hear Gute talk about the Love pick, the more I am convinced that the Packers think they got one of the top 2 QB's in this draft at a very reduced price.  I guess we will see.  The "silver lining", if Gute was wrong, it cost the Packers a lot less than a top 6 pick would have cost.</blockquote>

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