MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK

Eagles ALWAYS want a backup QB. They paid big for Chase Daniel and Nick Foles. Always drafted backup QBs in rounds 2-4 when they needed one.The point is to be ready if something happens and if not then to move him later.

 

Nothing should come out of the Barkley thing. Falcons may be in trouble though.

 

I agree. There is a lot more coming from Cousins and the Falcons camp compared to what was alleged in Philly.

 

Barkley appears to have cleared it up in a plausible way. Franklin "misspoke" on the context of what they were saying.

 

Funny how I joshed to @beachbum about getting a 3rd day pick for Pickett and now he's gone.

As Joe and Dirk were discussing, its still a back-up roll, so Im not to sure what Pickett was/is thinking or planning. Steelers may revisit Rudolph now as they need a QB clipboard holder to jump in and take control of the offense IF Wilson gets banged up.

 

He's signed with the Titans.

 

Oddly enough, I was contemplating this scenario before he got signed. Sign Russell, trade Kenny, and bring in Mason with the promise of open competition and next years starting job.

 

Good call Willie!

 

@beachbum Broken clock, Blind squirrel syndrome.

 

Rams to sign Jimmy Garoppolo

Aaron Donald won’t be with the Rams in 2024, but Jimmy Garoppolo will be.

According to multiple reports, the Rams are signing the former 49ers and Raiders quarterback. It’s a one-year deal for Garoppolo, who will try to be the backup to Matthew Stafford this season.

If Garoppolo makes the team, the Rams will have to make plans to have at least one more quarterback on hand for the start of the season. Garoppolo is set to serve a two-game suspension due to a performance-enhancing drug violation. They closed out last year with the now-unsigned Carson Wentz as the backup because 2023 fourth-round pick Stetson Bennett spent the year on the non-football injury list.

Garoppolo opened last season as the starting quarterback for the Raiders, but was benched and replaced by Aidan O’Connell after the Raiders fired Josh McDaniels and named Antonio Pierce their head coach.

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Got a feeling that Pittsburgh will be the team to make a move on Justin Fields.

They have a late 3rd compensatory pick they could pair with a 2025 pick, something conditional, like a 5th that could go all the way up to a 3rd depending on playing time, stats and how far in the playoffs they go with Justin as a starter.

Although Tomlin has anointed Russ the starter at this point in the offseason doesn't remove the possibility he could reverse course.

 

Interesting note on Herbert and the Chargers... Herbert has lost the majority of his offensive playmakers with the departures of WRs Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, RB Austin Ekeler and TE Gerald Everett this offseason.

 

How about a 2025 6th that could turn into a 4th…. Even less than you thought…

think poles overplayed his hand and then when all the trades started happening, value fell through the floor…. Personally if I were them, I would have held onto him until the trade deadline, especially seeing how many QB’s went down last year, think they could have got more value

 

Amazing how it all turned out. At the rate things were going I didnt know if the Bears would get anything for Fields, sadly.

Fields is entering the final year of his rookie contract, and the Steelers will have to decide whether to exercise his fifth-year option. That would guarantee him $25 million for 2025.

 

Which is why they should have just waited until some team lost it's starting QB to injury. It will happen to multiple teams at least one will consider itself a contender. The they could have got more. Bears front office is inept IMHO. Shesh the Steelers already fleeced you once with claypool and you deal with the again.

 

The Steelers will spend less than $4.5 million this season for Fields and Wilson. Id say the Steelers killed it in the QB room this off-season.

 

The other possibility is that the Steelers could fleexe somebody desperate for a QB around the trade deadline this season.

 

Mike Tomlin did it again Justin Fields is now is with the Pittsburgh Steelers first it was Claypool to the Bears,that was a serious burn now Justin Fields is a member of Pittsburgh Steelers what is going on in Chicago

 

With the addition of Fields, Wilson is going to get pushed to be at the peak of his game. Fields looking over his shoulder and at 11 years younger with the ability to run might be motivational. Arthur Smith may even be already contemplating how to utilize Fields in the offense with Wilson, kinda like 1995 when O'Donnell had Kordel Stewert lined up at Wide Out, lol. Both QB's have something to contribute and with neither one signed past 2024, why not experiment and see what you can do on the field to give defenses some things different to consider. Last thing you want on defense is to be thinking too much. Its going to be fun to see what Smith and Tomlin come up with.

 

The 2021 quarterback first round officially becomes a disaster

As the football-following world becomes more and more excited about the NFL prospects of quarterbacks Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels and Bo Mix and Drake Maye and J.J. McCarthy and Michael Penix, Jr., here’s a counter to the notion that the 2024 draft is loaded with can’t-miss prospects.

In 2021, most of the five quarterbacks taken in the top 15 selections have missed.

Last year, the third overall pick — 49ers quarterback Trey Lance — was jettisoned to the Cowboys for a fourth-round pick. Last week, the fifteenth selection, Mac Jones of the Patriots, was dumped to the Jaguars for a sixth-round pick. Now, Justin Fields (who was the eleventh overall pick that year) has been sent to the Steelers for a sixth-round pick, in 2025.

Three of those quarterbacks were picked before Micah Parsons. (D’oh.)

Meanwhile, the Jets might have to give a sixth-round pick to get someone to take quarterback Zach Wilson’s $5.4 million guaranteed compensation package off their hands. (He was the consensus second overall pick that year.)

That’s four of the five, either traded for far less than their draft status or, so far, not even tradable. The only exception, Trevor Lawrence, was dancing on the edge of becoming a franchise quarterback until the Jaguars collapsed down the stretch last year. Now, a fourth season might be needed to decide whether he has lived up to his status as the first overall pick in the draft.

Actually, the entire class has been, well, not good through three years. Others drafted in 2021 were Kyle Trask, Kellen Mond, Davis Mills, Ian Book, and Sam Ehlinger. (The undrafted class contains no Tony Romos or Kurt Warners, either.)

This year, it seems as if several teams are prepared to pin their hopes on a rookie quarterback. And while this year’s class could be a bumper crop, the 2021 harvest has been a disaster for every team that took a quarterback, other than Jacksonville. As the Draft Industrial Complex approaches the annual late April crescendo of proclamations that every pick is a winner, it makes sense to remember that it’s still a crapshoot, and at best a coin flip.

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