It's time to draft ... a Quarterback

There are 12 quarterbacks in the NFL this season that have been starting quarterbacks in the Super Bowl. I think only 7 of them have won it. The list of the Super Bowl quarterbacks includes a number of quarterbacks in their 30s that are near the end of their careers and Rex Grossman.

When friends and I discuss football I try not to be too much of a fan. By that I mean that I try not to let the fact that I root for a guy - or against him - have anything to do with whether I think he is actually any good. This is something I refer to as the Elway Argument. It was impossible as a Seahwaks fan to root for the Broncos quartback, but that doesn't mean that I didn't think he was the most exciting football player I ever got to watch play in person.

If any team does not believe that it has a quarterback that can actually lead it to the Super Bowl they need a new quarterback. It is pretty simple really.

I like Matt Hasselbeck. But it is time for the Seahawks to draft their quarterback of the future.

It is clear that Seneca Wallace is an able backup quarterback and not the quarterback of the future for the Seahawks. There has never been a real chance of him beating out Hasselbeck and if anyone else had thought he was a real starter then he would not have signed a long-term deal to be a backup. Charlie Frye is not the answer either. There is a difference between being a backup and a future starter and neither of them measures up to the future starter standard.

So, this Spring the Seahawks need to do the one thing that they have failed at miserably in the past; draft a quarterback.

Jim Zorn, Dave Krieg, and Matt Hasselbeck are the three most successful quarterbacks in franchise history and NONE of the three were drafted by Seattle. Kelly Stouffer, Rick Mirer, and Dan McGuire all cost the Seahawks first round draft picks. Still ... with Hasselbeck's durability clearly in doubt and neither backup the quarterback of the future ... it's time to get the next guy and start grooming him.

I still think that Hasselbeck has a couple years in him if healthy. But, with back problems and missing a number of other games the past couple years due to other injuries, it is clear that he is near the end of where the Seahawks can count on him being a Super Bowl quarterback at 33 and into the future.

If any team does not believe that it has a quarterback that can actually lead it to the Super Bowl they need a new quarterback.