kungfoodude

He said trade. The cap hit is smaller in a trade scenario after June 1st.

Unless it is a pretty cheap deal, KJ Wright is probably not a great investment for the future. In the short term, he's great but it probably doesn't make a ton of sense to plug a need with an expensive player that isn't likely to be here for the culmination of the rebuild. This is also likely KJ's last opportunity at a decent sized NFL contract.

You could, but that is a difficult market. Oddly, and this is a reason why the NCAA forum was so dead, is there isn't a tremendous amount of crossover here to the hardcore college fans. It's also a lot more competitive with social media platforms being what they are. More people are choosing those avenues than when the Huddle and all these older message board communities were being built.

Holmes, Caserio, Baalke, Mayhew are all in situations that are really set up for them to fail. I'd say it's probably one of those guys. Caserio seems like the safest bet because Houston is just such an exceptional disaster at the moment. I'll say that if Watson gets dealt, it will be him.

Right now a lot of that market is really mired in the various networks of fan sites(all behind paywalls) for specific teams. Rivals, 247/Scout, etc. A lot of them have free message boards and have for more than a decade, so the majority of those communities are fairly committed to them.

There was more than one game in which he shared the bulk of the blame for losing. Early in the season the fact was that while he and the offense were good, our defense just couldn't give them the chances to win games. Then in the second half of the season that defense really started to improve and they were keeping us in games. Well....that was when Teddy started to poo the bed the most. That isn't sustainable. Ask yourself if he is effective as Ryan Fitzpatrick, the most obvious example of a backup caliber QB that can crush it as a starter for a few games before coming back to earth. IMO, he is not.

We kind of do our NCAA football talking here, so it is probably redundant.

I think we would have a $5 mil cap hit in 2021 and 2022 for that prorated bonus.

I would rather sign a different, cheaper veteran if that is the route we decided to take. We can probably get a vet on a deal less than half what Teddy would be in 2021. Even with the dead cap hit, if we can get someone to take him in a trade(even if we have to give up a draft pick) we would have a big chunk of money to roll towards 2022 cap or we could use it to help us fill out that OL(or some other need position) in free agency. The more I look at the scenarios, the more convinced I am we need to trade Teddy away to get out of that that deal, even if it means giving up draft capital to do it. When it was signed, I didn't realize how incredibly bad that it would look in hindsight. All of my assumptions with the deal were that Teddy would be a ho-hum NFL starter, not that he would prove to be a backup caliber player.

Unless we trade him(which may entail us giving up a pick to get rid of him). We could trade him and get a big cap break. He has $10 mil in guaranteed money in 2021 but I am not sure how that guarantee is written. It is possible they can simply jettison him with no penalty, like we could have with Russell Okung last season.

Most of the weaknesses that he points out are things that can easily be remedied versus him just not having the abilities. I think he can tighten up that footwork before the combine/work outs and probably have that on the road to being corrected by the time he arrives at his new team.

I think it was the latter scenario. Keep in mind, you learn as much(sometimes more) from seeing bad performances from employees as you do good ones. Now he is at least aware of the red flags that can exist. Also, I believe he was on record as saying his first season in Carolina was more about fixing the organizational flaws on the business side of the Panthers(something he didn't have a learning curve to deal with). It seems like he has been fairly methodical about the changes, rather than burning it all to the ground at once and trying to rebuild everything from ashes.

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It would have to be a salary cap heavy team. It is possible....albeit not likely

Yeah, I am thinking the QB market is going to be bananas. It does make me wonder if there is a very slight chance we might be able to move Teddy. I realize that is a huge logical leap but......maybe.

It's crazy to see this whole situation unfold. This is not the Richardson Panthers, that is for sure.

I was going to make a thread about this at some point but I will put it in here for now. Rivers has already retired, Brees may be right behind him, Brady could retire, Big Ben could retire, Aaron Rodgers could retire, etc, etc. I highly doubt all those happen but if even a quarter of them do, that creates more QB needs in the league. I would argue there might be more QB spots open in the NFL(depending on retirements and offseason moves) than we have seen in a long time. That all leads to more reaching at QB in the draft.

Well that is legit the stories we are getting. That he was the loudest voice advocating for him. In all honesty....is it that big of a stretch? A guy to come in and be the savior? Remember that he said prior to the season that he wasn't buying into the "rebuild" mode and that he thought we were a contender. It does kind of fit with that level of delusion....

The Colts maybe not because they are in a "win now" mode. Perhaps someone like the Jags, Jets or Pats would take draft capital for a short term cap hit.

I mean....it's a pretty bad contract for us if he isn't the starter in 2021. He's our highest paid player and would be by a HUGE margin(almost $10 mil) once we cut KK. I'd be willing to trade away a pick to be able to have that cap to roll over to 2022.

I could see this.

The issue is finding someone who wants to assume that kind of salary. It's going to be starter money, so it has to be a place they plan on starting him.

I assume they are perusing it for comic relief or I hope they are.

Oddly enough, it would take some work on the Bridgewater contract to make it attractive. In a trade he is still going to have an $18 mil cap figure next year and a $21 mil cap figure in 2022. It's a pretty rough contract for another team to assume.