I think the Cutler threads will be a revolving door but there is a chance we can finally draft a future QB in next year's draft. I have to eat crow now since I have no flippin idea on where we land in the draft position.
Starting a rookie QB is rarely a good idea for a bad team and there's a lot of history to back that up.
Sure it might be but in today's NFL you don't need 3-4 years to put a new QB into the game.
Wentz and Dak are both playing at great levels.
Let's copy the Cowboys way. If we build up a respectable O-line that can protect our new QB he should be able to flourish in our team. We seem to already have a great RB in Howard and could use that extra cap space to resign Jeffery and also get a few big name FAs like Eric Berry here.
We shouldn't be afraid to move on from Cutler. He isn't the future here.
How about doing some current research before making a post like this.
Wentz is playing like the rookie he is now that some teams have enough tape on him to have figured him out so that pretty much leaves Prescott whom we could have had. So once again our legendary failure to recognize QB talent is haunting us but Prescott is the ONLY rookie QB doing well right now too. He's also playing behind one of the best young OL in the NFL which was built before he was drafted and he has the top rusher in the NFL in his backfield. That's quite a tailwind wouldn't you say?
We're also expected to have even more cap space in 2017 than we did in 2016 even with Cutler onboard and if we can sign AJ longer term his cap cost should be lower than it was in 2016 so we have plenty of cap room to add vet talent if Pace decides to spend on them but so far he hasn't done that preferring instead to sign more lower cost FA than one or two top dollars ones.
No one is afraid to move on from Cutler but there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Don't most people buy a new car before they sell their old one or should be just sell our old one and ride the backups or inexperienced rookie bus for two years? Find a better option and Cutler can go but find that better option first.
Falling: Carson Wentz
The good news is that Carson Wentz threw for 364 yards, a rookie record for the Eagles. The bad news is that 357 of those yards came after Wentz threw two interceptions and essentially handed the Giants a 14-0 lead a little more than five minutes into a game the Eagles would eventually lose 28-23.
Since throwing 134 passes without an interception to start his career, Wentz has thrown five interceptions and just four touchdown passes in the last five games. The Eagles (4-4) have lost four of those five and currently occupy last place in the NFC East.
Wentz’s counterpart, Eli Manning, did his best to help Wentz put together the first game-winning drive of his career. With the Giants (5-3) leading 28-23, Manning threw an interception in Giants territory, giving the Eagles the ball at the Giants’ 34 with just under two minutes left.
After completing a 17-yard pass to Nelson Agholor, however, Wentz failed to complete his last four passes and the Eagles lost the ball on downs.
Wentz completed just 3 of his last 11 passes. He finished with 27 completions on 47 attempts with no touchdowns.
Now he knows what it’s like to be a rookie in the NFL.
I'm sorry but that's pathetic writing. Poor excuses overall. It's pretty damn simple, you keep him and draft a QB or you trade him for something of decent value. Starting Hoyer or a rookie QB next year is not going to get the team any closer to the playoffs.
and starting Cutler is? You do know Cutler only has 1 playoff appearance right?
Neither a rookie or Cutler will make this team closer to the playoffs. With a rookie we get progress and development while with Cutler we get 16+ in wasted cap space that could go to signing better FAs that could help bring us closer to the playoffs.
And in that one year he was one half of one game away from playing in and possibly winning a Super Bowl. So are you saying the rest of the misses are all his fault? That's the popular thinking when all you do is read what others write and copy and paste them here while doing no research at all of your own. And then you post only those you manage to find that agree with your point of view. Typically those articles are as poorly researched any most of us have seen and we've told you that.
What QBs have we had in the last 30 years or so who've done any better? None. So maybe just maybe we've had some shitty teams and it's not just our QBs although God knows we've had enough of those as well.
You can't even get the cap savings right monsters. Cutler's 2017 salary is only $12.5 mil and he has per game bonuses that can earn him another $2.5 mil if he's starts all 16 games on the active roster. Subtract from that the $2 mil in dead cap and at most we save $13 mil and possibly less. Then a portion of that has to go towards replacing him. If we pick at the top of the draft like you prefer then you can subtract another $5 mil from that for the new guy and now we have roughly $8 mil for a top FA and we're in cap hell with millions of dead cap space on an unproven rookie QB whereas with Cutler we have no dead cap after 2017 at all and probably a better QB to boot.
So tell me. What top shelf stud FA will you sign with your $8 mil (not $16 mil) of cap savings? You couldn't even get one top OL, OLB, or DL for that nor a top CB or Safety. You might get a TE but we don't need one of those that badly. So tell me just how well thought out your plan is and you can only assume we'd get progress and development with another QB. That's great in theory but in reality it seldom goes that smoothly or that well as some of our past QB picks would indicate.