The Buccaneers chose Glennon out of North Carolina State in the third round of the 2013 draft. He represents perhaps the most curious of the options available for the Bears, given that he lost his starting job twice in the first three years with Tampa Bay.
Glennon, who hasn't started a game since 2015, was respectable in his rookie year with the Bucs, going 4-9 in his starts. Tampa Bay then signed Josh McCown away from the Bears to be the starter over Glennon, with Glennon relegated to starting only when McCown was injured. The Bucs went 1-4 in his starts.
The Bucs then drafted Jameis Winston. Glennon, now 27, did not play in 2015 and appeared in just two games last season.
Parenthetically, few quarterbacks Glennon's size (6-foot-7) have achieved noteworthy success. More have gone the way of Brock Osweiler, Houston's failed $72-million gamble in free agency last offseason.
QUOTE;"At this point we pretty much have everything on the table," Pace told reporters Wednesday at the NFL Combine. "For us to do it the responsible way, that's necessary."
This is the ONLY way to approach it right and to do so with a whole lot of patience and a willingness to stick to a plan that can only be of a benefit in the long run. Fox has painted Pace into a corner now at the QB position and Pace needs to take full control of it to get himself out of it. This is where the Bears need to become Ryan Pace's team and no longer John Fox's.
I couldn't agree more. Why Glennon's name has even come up other than the media looking for stories to advance is beyond me. Tampa Bay drafted him, started him, then immediately went out and drafted Winston to replace him so exactly how is this guy an upgrade to Cutler?
To those who have shouted down any potential trade for Garoppolo why then would you support signing this guy? I can easily see a talented young QB sitting behind Tom Brady in the same way I saw Rodgers sitting behind Favre but the kid whose been benched for Jameis Winston?
I couldn't agree more. Why Glennon's name has even come up other than the media looking for stories to advance is beyond me. Tampa Bay drafted him, started him, then immediately went out and drafted Winston to replace him so exactly how is this guy an upgrade to Cutler?
To those who have shouted down any potential trade for Garoppolo why then would you support signing this guy? I can easily see a talented young QB sitting behind Tom Brady in the same way I saw Rodgers sitting behind Favre but the kid whose been benched for Jameis Winston?
I couldn't agree more. Why Glennon's name has even come up other than the media looking for stories to advance is beyond me. Tampa Bay drafted him, started him, then immediately went out and drafted Winston to replace him so exactly how is this guy an upgrade to Cutler?
To those who have shouted down any potential trade for Garoppolo why then would you support signing this guy? I can easily see a talented young QB sitting behind Tom Brady in the same way I saw Rodgers sitting behind Favre but the kid whose been benched for Jameis Winston?
If this isn't "fake news" then it should be.
I don't quite get the Glennon thing. Ok, he has some experience and is still young so presumably has potential upside. But how much? If his upside were that high, he probably wouldn't be riding the bench behind a guy Tampa spent the #1 overall pick on to replace him. If he was available for cheap as a vet backup or "bridge" QB, ok. But he isn't that either and is going to get the type of money that is way above typical backup pay. So why pay him that is he clearly isn't "the guy" going forward?
I couldn't agree more. Why Glennon's name has even come up other than the media looking for stories to advance is beyond me. Tampa Bay drafted him, started him, then immediately went out and drafted Winston to replace him so exactly how is this guy an upgrade to Cutler?
To those who have shouted down any potential trade for Garoppolo why then would you support signing this guy? I can easily see a talented young QB sitting behind Tom Brady in the same way I saw Rodgers sitting behind Favre but the kid whose been benched for Jameis Winston?
If this isn't "fake news" then it should be.
I'm sorry...is Jameis Winston a bad QB?
No, but you wouldn't compare him to Tom Brady either. Plus a quick comparison of Winston's stats vs Glennon's show that in most cases they come out about the same. I guess it might also help to say I've never been a huge Winston fan either.
I'm also not a fan of any QB who has almost zero mobility playing behind a Bears OL who struggles with pass protection at times. But overall my point is still the same. If we're gonna move on from Cutler then move up not back or laterally.
We finally have the advantage of being able to do so without significant cap consequences so if we sign or draft a QB who will expose us to that again Pace better be damn sure he's an upgrade or we're right back where we started with enough guaranteed money on the books to make a change nearly impossible.
Any way you look at it given the supply of QBs known to be UFAs and the limitations of the draft prospects and the number of teams wanting a new QB this is not a good time to get into a desperation mode just because your HC has a burr up his butt about Cutler. Elway faced Fox down over much the same deal in Denver and Pace need to take the reins and do the same here. This is not a move he wants to mess up because it could easily cost him his job too. Fox is already a goner as far as I'm concerned. He's not the guy they thought they were getting period.
I couldn't agree more. Why Glennon's name has even come up other than the media looking for stories to advance is beyond me. Tampa Bay drafted him, started him, then immediately went out and drafted Winston to replace him so exactly how is this guy an upgrade to Cutler?
To those who have shouted down any potential trade for Garoppolo why then would you support signing this guy? I can easily see a talented young QB sitting behind Tom Brady in the same way I saw Rodgers sitting behind Favre but the kid whose been benched for Jameis Winston?
If this isn't "fake news" then it should be.
I don't quite get the Glennon thing. Ok, he has some experience and is still young so presumably has potential upside. But how much? If his upside were that high, he probably wouldn't be riding the bench behind a guy Tampa spent the #1 overall pick on to replace him. If he was available for cheap as a vet backup or "bridge" QB, ok. But he isn't that either and is going to get the type of money that is way above typical backup pay. So why pay him that is he clearly isn't "the guy" going forward?
All of this would be my point as well mp. TB offered him $8 mil to stay around as Winston's #2. That's a very generous offer for backup QB and I think for them he may well have that kind of value. His career stats are little different from Winston's so TB has two mid level starters if he stays. That's not a bad place to be in these days.
But another team is not likely get him right now for $8 mil. So if we're looking at paying him the same kind of money we're paying Cutler except with a longer term deal with significant guaranteed money why would we do that if no one believes he's our franchise QB of the future. He obviously wasn't in TB.
I'm not buying into the rumors that are floating around because they change daily. Every Tom, Dick, Ian, and Adam are competing to break some story and half it is pure speculation. If Pace is solidly convinced his guy is in this draft he'd be far better off to draft him then kick the can with Glennon when we can already do that with Cutler with less risk.