If I was an NFL GM without a Top-5 QB, First thing I'd do is bring in a proven offensive coordinator (proven without a top-5 QB). Outside of having an elite QB, your OC is your most important offensive player. Then I'd trade a 5th-7th round pick for some washed up armed "game manager" QB with starting experience who will throw less than 10 picks a season. Don't fall for the overpriced free agent trog trap, trade for a current backup QB or starter that a team wants to get rid of. I don't give a fuck that they can't "win games," I just want a guy who doesn't LOSE games. Gimme Alex Smith, Kyle Orton, Tebow, I don't fucking care. They aren't sexy like Robo, but you don't have Robo, and this is infinitely better than throwing some rookie in to turn your team into a dumpster fire by throwing 25 picks a season like the Jets/Jacksonville have done. That shit doesn't help anyone. Winning is what creates winning, not tanking for some first round pick in hopes you hit the 1/50 odds of a franchise QB like Peyton.
Then I'd spend every 1st-4th round draft pick on offensive linemen and defenders for the next 5 years. If only half of them pan out, that's still an incredibly solid team. If some amazing QB deal fell into my lap in the late 1st-3rd rounds, I'd take it as a future investment, but never ever take RBs/WRs in the first 4 rounds. I don't understand why teams would ever spend high picks on unproven skill players when proven veteran skill players are available for cheap as fuck if you are willing to think outside the box and snag a dude who doesn't look the part (Hai Sproles, come on over for a 7th round pick). In 5 years you'll have a very nice football team that is making the playoffs regularly (and once you make the playoffs your "game manager" QB can always get hot and you might end up winning it all). Whatever you do, if your game manager QB gets hot and wins you the super bowl, don't pay him like he's Peyton because he isn't. If he wants a huge contract, ship his ass out and get more picks and new game manager. The one thing you CANT afford to do in the NFL is have a non elite QB who is paid like an Elite QB. That'll doom ur franchise.