I think that draft picks should be a league wide lottery Killah. How it does work is irrelevant; how it could or should work is fine, this is a discussion and none of us have the power to actually effect a change. I wish Luck would go to a team like the Titans for sure, it would be fantastic.
WaterBomb, average is by definition something like being exactly the 50th% of everyone. In the NFL this is hard to approximate since there is a perpetual revolving door due to injury/poor skills between the 25th-32nd best QBs or so (see Kerry Collins and Curtis Painter both getting play, both Jags QBs, et cetera). If you want to talk about average, #12-13 is the absolute highest you should talk.
Skullfuckingly elite quarterbacks:
Brady
Greater Manning
Rodgers
Brees
very good quarterbacks:
Romo
Roethlisberger
Lesser Manning
Vick
Rivers
Schaub (still looks more competent than a lot of quarterbacks even without Andre Johnson!)
probably very good (I want to see if they fall off the next 3-4 games, especially Newton):
Stafford
Fitzpatrick
Newton
Wow! As a professional curmudgeon, I usually end up putting more things in life on the dislike list than like list, but if you throw in an apparently revived Hasselbeck, you have a very good list of clearly above average quarterbacks. I do not see any real dropoff here...all of them are winning games. Matt Cassel, Tavaris Jackson, Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan...these are average quarterbacks.
If the three new star quarterbacks are legitimate, one or two of them might even stunningly join the elite quarterback group - for that we need another year to see though, not just a few games. I feel like luck turns into "swagger" at some point, and the Lions might really have reached that point, so Stafford might actually get BETTER as the season goes on. I am definitely fucking excited either way. Ryan Fitzpatrick got up to 23-15 last season on TD/INT, which showed maturity. This season he is on pace for 32-13, and that would show being elite. As for Newton, if he can complete even 60-61%, it seems like he might be the most unstoppable quarterback in the league...he already has a positive TD/INT rate while having all the responsibility put on him and throwing too much, and do not forget he has 5 TD to just 2 fumbles on the ground. 12 TD to just 8 turnovers for a rookie is fucking fantastic. 1610 yards in 5 games, even in the year passing went nuts, is mindfuckingly fantastic for a rookie. He is certainly making too many mistakes, this is because he is a rookie and having to force/wanting to force too many passes. I do not think he is destined to always be sloppy; I think he is destined to be fucking incredible. He has one less 20+ yard pass than Brady, both of whom are at least 6 more ahead of next place (Eli Manning 8====D). He is competing just small amounts worse than Brady and Rodgers as a rookie...saying he is not good is sheer ignorance. I am not a good study of history; I do not know what the most touchdowns for a rookie ever is. He is on pace for 38 TD and 5000+ yards as a rookie, and while passing yards are definitely inflated this season, touchdowns are not so inflated! Scoring is 2 points per game per team more, not 7.