Khyber53

I don't think we'll release Teddy at all. If someone took him in trade, then yeah, but I think we'll still have him on the roster come September barring that. If we draft someone as QB, then Teddy is someone you want to have on hand to help that player's development. And as a backup, he's a guy that can come in and run the team until the starting QB is back on the field. That $20m+ on the books is going to be there no matter what, so you might as well get some mileage out of him. And I think that was the plan all along with Teddy. It's what I said going into last season after we picked him up. He's the guy for the moment, but he isn't the longterm plan.

I mean, he can talk it and it's obvious he knows the X's and O's part of it. He knows what great QBing looks like. He just cannot put it all together and develop someone at that position. It is his Achilles' Heel.

This, sadly, is probably truth. And it is the worry when trading for any of the QBs that are going to be put out there to test the trade waters. Remember we were putting Cam out there last year and making big statements about how he was good to go and would be fine for any team. Yeah, this is the used car lot part of the offseason.

Not sure where the worries about his contract are, would be two years with $19M a year on the books. He'd be earning less than Teddy. And I don't think Carr is a bad QB at all, but his coach has never successfully developed a QB. There's a reasonable contract and player that might be worth taking a good look at.

Ask Minnesota about the Herschel Walker trade.

Points to the roster. Umm. We didn't get Stafford after the Rams offered a ton for him. Did I miss some folks out there that passed on us since Jan. 1?

Just another voice on Twitter. No reason to get upset about it.

No, running a football team and organization is massively difficult. Only about six to eight teams in the league are successfully doing it. And Rhule, in college he worked miracles turning around programs building from the ground up. The guy knows his stuff, but he's build a whole house starting at the foundation, he's not just dragging a trailer to a new lot.

This whole running a football team thing is hard.

That was a massively aggressive offer. They basically sat down at the poker table and pushed all their chips to the center while the cards were still being shuffled. If it blows up in their faces, the Rams going to pay for it for a loooong time. Detroit, not so long.

Good for him. Hope he handles JPP well and gets his ring. Remmers never did anything but play football for us and he handled the job better than you or I could. Good luck to him.

Therein lies the rub. Sometimes the right coach can find the right technique and you develop the guy into a winner. Most times you don't, though, and you don't even develop a decent back up QB.

That got me, too. There's something there, but it's going to take a lot of practice and polish to make him into something great. He'd be perfect to spend a year behind someone like Brees, Brady, Roethlisberger or Alex Smith.

Once in a while, there's a gem tucked away amongst the beaters on a car lot. Once in a while. Brady has been that guy a couple of times in his career.

Welcome to the hype machine that starts each year right before the Super Bowl. It's a time when qualities are over-stated and a handful of teams will rush headlong into a purchasing frenzy in an effort to win the off-season title early while two other teams compete for the Lombardi Trophy. It's like the people who get their tax return check and immediately head to Crazy Kevin Powell's Used Car Emporium to buy a BMW. Later on they find out that the schweet ride has a bad transmission, there's something inside that is definitely not new car scent and that the interest rates are murderous. Fools and their money... I like Stafford as a player and I think there's some tread on those tires still, but man, they wayyyy overpaid for him. It sounds like we almost did, too.

Okay, so I thought I knew what was happening... Had a few of the threads but not the whole cloth, that's for sure. Cool to see tie-in characters from Ant-Man, Thor and Captain Marvel so far. This is one heck of a roller coaster ride. Top end stuff here. They certainly have made it a "gotta tune in" kind of series!

Well, guess I was wrong.

I still think that Stafford will end up in Indianapolis. It just fits their current plans. They are built for the now, they just need a good QB and for the ball to land the right way a few times. Rivers was close, but maybe not enough tread left on the tires... Stafford could hit the sweet spot for what they want.

He does and he will and that's how you build for the long term. It's not like he isn't going to be close with the veteran players, just moreso when they are his veteran players.

No national championship for Will Grier. No undefeated season. Didn't help one of his receivers win the Heisman Trophy. Will Grier college career comp %: 65.7 (621-945) Mac Jones college career comp %: 74.2 (413-556) And I don't think anyone can really realistically compare the programs at WVU and Alabama. Plus, did you watch the national championship game this year? Jones was totally in control behind the line. He made passes all over the field, at all levels, read his receivers quickly, delivered the ball efficiently with plenty of zip and amazing touch when needed. And he was going against an excellent defense. Was he playing behind an excellent line? Yep and we should make it a point to draft as many of those guys as possible over the next few years. C'mon man, you've got to be kidding with the Wil Grier thing...

I agree wholeheartedly. Football players who are students of the game are what you want. The guys who study it rather than just get out there and win on athleticism. And I am there with you on Mac Jones. I think he's the best choice for this team and our future. If we drop the first rounder on him straight up at 8 I will not complain one bit. Others will howl about it until about week six of the 2021 season. Then they'll be singing his praises. Or cursing our stupidity if we don't take him.

The Eagles Super Bowl changed people's perceptions of the team because they were simply winning. We now see that it was partly because of how weak the NFCEast has become, but also partly because they caught lightning in a bottle -- something powerful but short-lived. We have to remember that the Eagles, for most of their history, have been the NFC's Jets. Lackluster performance on the field, long-suffering fans. And most importantly, a horrible management and ownership situation. (Remember even Andy Reid couldn't produce continuing success there, even with Donovan McNabb and a team of high-dollar all-stars -- there was just too much suckatude from team management.) I'll guess that the Eagles haven't so much collapsed as they have returned to their norm. And boy, this new HC sure seems to fit that bill. Eric Bieniemy will get to be a head coach when some good team's head coach retires. And he will either build or maintain a dynasty there. Think New England, Seattle, Pittsburgh or Baltimore -- places with long-tenured coaches.

There's always good value at the #8 pick spot. We've had it three times in our history and gotten Tim Biakabutuka (short career, though), Jordan Gross and CMC. Other #8 picks of note include guys like Ryan Tannehill, Ronnie Lott, DeAngelo Hall and Willie Roaf. That being said, there are numerous wiffs at that pick as well. Let's face it, there are some teams that are constantly picking at eighth and above. Those teams often have generationally bad (sometimes near century-long bad) organizations replete with some of the worst scouting departments you can imagine. I trust Rhule to request the player he needs to fit his plans (which might not exactly jibe with the Huddle's plan). I also like the possibility that new team management might be reinvigorating our scouting department (which needs more wins on picks in the second through seventh rounds).

I think you can and have to coach up QBs. Good coaching is refining skills to get the best performance out of an athlete in an effort to reach their maximum potential. Game planning, on the other hand, is used at all times to hide weaknesses on your side and exploit the other's. The right coach can certainly take an unfinished product QB, bring him into the NFL and forge out a great player. You can see it in action right now in KC, Buffalo and Cleveland. Even Mahomes had to sit behind Alex Smith for a year -- and Mahomes has been very open about how much Smith, Reid and Bienemy elevated his abilities. Where there is some major truth in your statement is just how hard it is to do that with a QB in the NFL today and not many coaches either can do it or have the luxury to do it. Rivera really couldn't do it, Gruden couldn't do it, the other Gruden couldn't do it, so many coaches have died on the vine because they couldn't provide the fine tuning and refinement that a college prospect may need.

I still think the Panthers are being catfished by Watson.