Jesus Christ man, it's LESS THAN...
I'll try to slow down...
-I don't think the 9-11th QB's are necessarily game managers at all (this means that I am agreeing with you; in fact I never made a claim to the contrary) AND
-I don't think that, of those 9-11th best QBs in the league who were drafted in the 1st round, any of them were drafted with the hope of them being the 9-11th best QB in the league. Those drafted in the 1st round were picked where they were with the hope that they had the potential to crack the top 5 AND
-I agree that there are plenty of non top 5 QBs who have won the SB and been vital to teams' success. In your first post, this was some point you were making, saying you didn't agree at all, when I never claimed otherwise.
Then you bring up Flacco, who is on pace for a 4300 yard season, and the very team that drafted him thought he was neck-and-neck with Matt Ryan, but critically, thought he had a higher upside than Matt Ryan. I don't see how that helps your point. Then you brought up Eli, who was drafted 1st, meaning he was drafted with the intention of cracking the top 5 of NFL QBs.
This isn't even a strong position by me, but you're welcome to dig in, again, against points that I didn't make...
Now for your only good point, which was really
@GreasySpread36 's point, although I disagree with it: "If you deem a prospect as having a chance to develop into a clear above average starter who is good enough to win championships with given a solid supporting cast then he is well worth a first rounder."
Nobody has a chance (unknown probability) to develop into a clear (definite) above average starter. There's just these young kids that you have to feel damn good about to take them in the 1st round, and the real reason I disagree with this point is that it's unrealistic. OF COURSE, if you can look backward and say instead of Weeden, I'll take (insert 10th best QB in NFL now), OF COURSE you do that. It just doesn't work like that. At all.
It's just game theory: (very very simplified here but) you have 22 starting positions to fill. If a team had the 18th pick in the draft, in round one, would you think that their expectations are to end up with a guy who doesn't have a CHANCE to crack the top 5 at his position?!? Same goes with the 28th pick.
So then you are left with Greasy's point - QB is so important that you'll gladly take a middle-of-the-pack NFL QB with the 1st pick. It still doesn't make sense. You would take that QB, but before that QB was drafted, he was just a projection, and that projection had a room full of draft experts and coaches thinking that he had a CHANCE to be a top 5 QB. If it didn't, then they shouldn't have used a first round pick on him.