Should we pursue Torry Holt?

His price will be too high, both in terms of material cost and, more importantly, in what we’d have to give up draft-wise.

You are saying that there is no sense in improving the positions that we can improve because we can’t improve another position?!

This thinking would really hurt our chances to even get back to where we were last year. The passing game is made from the talents of virtually every position on the offense. The OL must block. The RBs must keep Defenses honest with hard running inside, catch passes, and block. The receivers must create separation and run precise routes. The QB must throw good passes, create plays when things break down, and protect the ball. The coaches must find weaknesses in the opposition so all the other players can do their part.

The point is that the passing game is made up of about 20 people in total. In my opinion, only about 10-12 of them are doing a good job on a regular basis, and many fans act like the only way we can improve our pass game is by adding a really good QB (like they are just falling from trees to begin with).

Would the passing game improve if our OL did a better job of protecting the QB?
Would the passing game improve if our receivers, as a unit, stayed healthy and were more consistent?
Would the passing game improve if our coaching staff did a better job of putting our players in a position to succeed?

The bottom line is that we need to improve the passing offense where we can. With the players available this offseason we should be able to improve the OL, receivers, even perhaps the FB, but there isn’t crap in the way of a QB out there.

Sometimes you just have to do what you can do to improve things. If you want to improve QB play, you can improve the people around him. With receivers who get open more often and blockers that give him more time, the passing game will improve.

But there is no news, other than the Cutler rumors, that a viable, Franchise-type QB is available anywhere. So we are talking about a guy who is a great player, a good guy and still has some gas in the tank.

Hey Fran,

Let’s say you are on a long trip in your car. It starts blowing white smoke and generally loses power. You bring it into the shop and they tell you that you have a blown head gasket and your right front wheel bearing is about to separate and the wheel will fall off.

You have 250 miles to go, and the mechanic tells you the car will likely run for another 500 miles before it dies with the head gasket the way it is, but there is no way to know how long the Wheel bearing will last. He does not have the gasket you need in stock, but tells you there might be a shop on the way that has the gasket and can fix it on the way.

You are on your way to Miami, for the Biggest event of your life.

You could fix the wheel bearing with the cash you have and continue on your journey, most likely finding the head gasket you need along the way. Or, you can say F@*& it and not fix the wheel bearing, wait until you find the head gasket you need, only to find out that the only place that has the wheel bearing you need is the place you just left.

What do you do?

Man, that started out as being a simple analogy, and morphed into something way longer than it needed to be.