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North End Zone bar rail, $150 per game: Seats located at the front rail of the new endzone platform, price includes food and drink.

North End Zone party cabanas, $150 per game per person: Groups seating of 20-140 people with the same access and perks as the pool cabanas.

Pool cabanas, $250 per game, per person:. For groups of up to 300 people with lounge furniture, TVs, includes food and drink.

Field level seats, $350 per game: Field level seating on EverBank Field's east side with food and drink included.

Kickoff club tables, $375 per game: Private area with four-person tables above the 100 level with food and drink included.
 
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GM Dave Caldwell on qb's from the pre-draft luncheon

Q: Do you believe that the quarterbacks aren't ready to start from the get-go?

D: That's been our feeling from the get-go, and that's why we signed Chad right away, and we can go into the season with Chad as our starter. We felt like if we got playmakers around him, that he could - you know, he was .500 the last 8 games last year, and he'll have another year in this system. So I think each individual quarterback you have to take [differently]. I don't think you can take a hard stance - 'they have to play right away, or they have to sit a year'. I think you take each individual quarterback separately. You can make cases for each one of them. 'Well, this quarterback played right away, and he was successful.' 'Philip Rivers sat for a year, and he's been one of the top quarterbacks in the game for 10 years.'

Q: When you look at the national rankings, outside of Manziel, the other 4 quarterbacks didn't face top competition on a weekly basis. Does that not matter as much?

D: Yeah - I think it's more of the systems that they come out of. The college game right now, you got the spread systems, they don't do a whole lot of pro reads, and taking snaps from center. So I just think a lot of the finer points of the game that they're going to learn here is going to take them some time. The quarterbacks that have had success - Matt Ryan early on in his career, Russell Wilson - they came after 5 years in college, and they came from pro-style offenses. That helps. Not to say that you can't do it - RG3 did it, and he came from Baylor, which is a spread, and he played really good his first year. I'm not saying it has to be one way or the other, I'm just saying - you have to take each individual quarterback and make your decisions based off that.
 
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malbaker86 said:
I'd rather have Clowney more than anybody but would loooove Watkins as a consolation prize
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Man I wanna stay away from watkins. If we're not going QB at 3 give me mack. Watkins success is too dependent on the quarterback and right now that's chad fukking henne so yea
 
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I'm thinking the QB they take will be Garoppolo...slight chance in Carr if he makes it out of the first.
 
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NFL Draft: Do you have to find your QB in the first 2 rounds? - Big Cat Country

The vast majority of players picked outside of the first round end up either never starting an NFL game or end up just being spot-starters and backups.
A recent trend has seen some successful second round quarterbacks have success, but they're generally on teams that are "filled out", so to speak. Since 2001, there have been 14 quarterbacks picked in the second round with roughly three (Drew Brees, Andy Dalton and Colin Kaepernick) being at least mid-level NFL starters, four if you want to count Chad Henne, but I don't. That makes it a less than 22 percent hit rate.

The feeling that you have to get quarterbacks early is also shared by some of those in the NFL, including one general manager who spoke specifically on that subject.

"I just did a little study. It's very interesting," Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery said at his pre-draft press conference last week. "That developmental theory doesn't hold a whole lot of water. There's entire classes of quarterbacks, since '06, I went back and looked at from Jay's on -- when people say developmental quarterbacks, OK, so who has gotten developed? There isn't a single quarterback after the third round since 2006 that has been a long-term starter. So you're either developing thirds, and most of them have been wiped out of the league. So to get a quality quarterback, you've got to draft them high. That 2012 class is a blip on the radar that's unusual, highly unusual."

The time frame Emery references, 2006 through 2013 in the third round and beyond, saw 61 quarterbacks drafted and just two have shown to be capable starters, albeit in a limited timeframe. Both Russell Wilson and Nick Foles are the only quarterbacks in that run who've shown much of anything.

That's just three percent.

"Most of the starters in this league come from the first and second round. So that's where you need to take a quarterback," Emery continued. "So when you talk about quarterback every year, they have to be somebody that you truly believe will beat out the second and third quarterback that you perceive on your roster. And if not, history shows that you shouldn't make that pick."

Emery's statement is true. If you look at the starting quarterbacks in the NFL the vast majority were first or second round picks, more so first round picks.
 
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