Ok, now I am not really sure if you have a salient point because I certainly never said "every" or even most QBs picked after rnd 1 are successful in the NFL. It's a mixed bag, as it is with QBs drafted at the top of rnd 1. When there's a crop of QBs as deep as it is this year, not getting...
Yeah, I am not sure about that. We have plenty of QBs not taken in the first few picks or even the 1st round who end up being successful NFL starters. And I think the Titans are fairly happy with what they have in Levis, but they have opportunity to tell us about that with their draft behavior...
The move came out of nowhere, but I can't really find much to dislike about it. If all we end up getting from it is a decent backup for 2 years, I think it's a screamin deal for what we paid (to include cap cost of less than the vet min). So we at least have a backup under contract for 2...
I think it was Flyer who mentioned it previously, but this might be an indication of how the league values cap space when it comes to a QB2, which all 3 of those QBs are at this point. We are paying our QB2 a fraction of what those other teams are paying Fields & Mac Jones, and we have Howell...
I really doubt it. Probably 10-15 per game max. I bet they put him out there for some short yardage & GL 3rd/4th downs as a run/pass threat, other plays as a decoy, then a few gadget plays.
It's really easy to sit back and say we should have got a better deal, paid less, got more in return, etc. The team on the other end of the deal is trying to get value in the trade also. The other teams aren't in the league just for filler. As we said in the Army, the enemy gets a vote...
Ok, but it's not like you aren't going to make a pick when you're on the clock. Whoever you pick there is going to get that slotted contract. You take a QB at 16 and he ends up as a starter early in that rookie contract, and that's a screamin deal.
Yeah, not by much. Penix turns 24 in May, about 6 months older than Howell. Howell also has only 2 years on his rookie deal remaining. If you draft Penix or Nix in rnd 1, you have up to 5 years of club control.
I struggle to decide what I think happens in the draft at QB after the top 4 are gone (presumably to Chicago, WAS, NE, and Minn). Picks 12-16 are Broncos, Raiders, Saints, Colts, Hawks. Of those 5, only the Colts have a QB that I think could still be the starter there 2 or 3 years from now...
I am not talking about fantasyland things. The projections of where Penix and Nix will go are all over the map. It might not be 1 of those guys, but in a year where the position is so deep I can easily see someone hanging around much longer than expected and being a great value more so than a...
It's not 100%, but it's definitely way more than 0 chance. It's a deep crop of QBs, so something wild might happen like Bo Nix is there in the 4th round that we just shouldn't pass up. And I know someone is gonna climb on me for that example (it's just an example), but I would bet anything...
If JS really likes Bowers, I think we could still take him despite Fant's contract. By the numbers breakdown of Fant's 2 year deal, I think next off-season you either add another year(s) to it or cut him.
Yep, I fully acknowledge the scenarios where we still make a big move for a QB, but I think it's less likely after the Howell trade. We have a little less draft capital and a better fallback position if it doesn't happen. Alreadying having Howell in my opinion will make it easier to...
I suppose not, but it would just come off as a very odd move to do that (trade up, if that's what you're talking about, to draft someone like McCarthy). Salk is talking about it right now live on 710.... that this moves makes it seem like the team doesn't believe they can move up and get the...
Probably not much of a difference there, but one advantage with Howell (other than price) is 2 years of control vs 1 for the deal Lock signed. Lock was also a FA, so it's quite possible he just chose to be somewhere else. We couldn't force him to stay at our price.
Yeah, wow, a bolt out of the blue last night when I saw the news about the Howell trade. I definitely did not see that one coming.
My immediate conclusion was that we have no designs on drafting our QBOTF this year, but now I'm not so sure. As has been mentioned, we did need a backup since...
I stop short of calling this a full rebuild because of the roster decisions made on Geno Smith & TL. If we were in a full rebuild, I don't think we would have handled those moves that way. We wouldn't have committed to Geno for the '24 season, and we probably just would have cut TL to rip the...
Mac should certainly know him well.... Queen is only counting $6M against the cap in 2024. That's peanuts. It bumps up to $17M next year, but those future year numbers can be massaged. I definitely would have been ok with that kind of deal to bring him here, especially with the alternative...
Yeah, did we just take it for granted that Queen would follow Coach Mac? We just seem like we are caught flat footed right now at that position. Do we have to go back to Bobby with hat in hand and beg to come back one more time? We screwed pooch on his first departure (the way it was...