Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 1:46:09 GMT -6
Jan 3, 2017 0:09:15 GMT -6 @soulman said:
Except you get Jimmy G a whole lot cheaper than Cousins who wants to be paid like a top 5 QB and he ain't one. That's worth a pick or two to me not to have another QB with over $50 mil in guaranteed $$$.That's the goal isn't it? To get a long-term starter on the roster worth paying. Pretty sure every QB worth his salt is GONNA GET PAID. I would consider that a victory. It isn't a contest to have a "cheap QB". It's to have one good enough to win with here for long-range stability.
Like I said above, this is probably just an academic discussion only anyway. I doubt very much Washington is going to let Cousins get away and I think the chances of us working out an acceptable trade for Garrapolo is pretty remote too.
Jared Goff; $27,487,673 guaranteed money
Carson Wentz; $26,226,338 guaranteed money
So if that rookie sits for even one year it's costing you almost $7 mil for him to play backup or possibly only run a scout team and hold a clip board if he's not your #2. That's a pretty penny you'll spend on his education and development so that's why many of these guys are forced to start and as result many fail because it's too much too soon. What happens if you can't even make a dependable starter out of them by year two. Now you wasted $14 mil on that gamble. So when you draft a QB that high you better be damn sure he can start soon because the meters ticking hard and fast.
If we traded for a Garopollo or an AJ McCarron we get them cheap salary wise for a year but we risk a pick or maybe two. But wouldn't we be spending that same pick or maybe two if we had to trade up to get our guy in the draft anyway? That's what I don't get. It's like the guys who say Cutler wasn't worth two 1sts. Well it would have cost us one of those 1st to draft him anyway so the premium for a young vet with a Pro Bowl to his credit was actually one 1st round pick. In the case of Garoppolo that premium would be even less and with McCarron less than Garoppolo if anything at all. Him you might get for a mid round pick.
If we trade for either and as a 2017 starter they were quite successful and had the look of that guy we could build around why wouldn't we want to pay them? It's doubtful just one year of success would get them anymore in guaranteed money that the rookie #3 pick and you'd know exactly what you had in him vs hoping you had something. If the guy is a total washout well it's cost you a few hundred grand not millions and a pick you might well have used to draft a QB with anyway and you move on again in 2018. I really don't see where all the risk is coming from. It far far less.
My guess is there are those who can't get over the Cutler trade because they feel that it failed. In a sense it did but not totally and not because it was all Cutler's fault and he stunk. He didn't. He's the #1 QB in Bears history whose simply had the misfortune to play on some very very bad teams. Until Drew Bress came along Archie Manning played a similar role in NOLA and was their "goat". So all I can say to that bunch is "get over it".
It's like you guys had a date with a hot blonde and she stood you up so you've decided you won't ever ask a hot blonde for a date again. Fine, don't then. The rest of us with more balls than you have will be happy to take them off your hands. LOL