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To kick this up, The Athletic has a really comprehensive piece out where pretty much all QB questions are addressed. It is worth seeing. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7083539/2026/03/04/starting-quarterback-projections-free-agency-draft/?source=user_shared_article I’m putting something specific here but it should have a thread or something. It is an extensive exercise. This is a dense write up with a lot of column inches used, about the Jets and Murray and Reich, all this stuff.. then it goes to backup QB and there is Dalton. I am pasting that part: As for Dalton, Reich is installing the offense he was trying to run in Carolina in 2023 before he got fired, and Dalton was with the Panthers then; he’s an ideal option as a veteran backup to replace Taylor. Reich said this about Dalton in 2023: “The way he's throwing the football, the way he works through progressions, the way he handles the operation. … Since day one (when) he walked in the door, I'm like, 'This guy is starter-worthy.' You guys know I've said that all along. He's, in my opinion, one of the best 32 quarterbacks in the world.” ——— That’s true love lol. I never heard any of this. Pretty crazy I think, considering how the year went. Anyway the dream is not dead. .

Okay I understand the concept of don’t create a hole for yourself where there isn’t one. My concern is the concussions. I’d like to disassociate from the risk of them becoming a really serious issue. If I got a 1st round pick so I could replace him, plus…. I would think hard about doing it.

Where is Sadiq?

They asked Morgan about older players in either his presser or McAfee, I don’t recall. He said yeah, he got it, basically. But that if the player was advanced enough that you don’t need to develop him for a couple of years and can step right in and produce on a rookie deal… “there is value there”. I am not recalling if this was tangental to the being fooled by one year of production comment or a particular player or any of that. But he’s right. If you could get 5 years off a 1st rounder and let someone else overpay him, that isn’t a horrible scenario. I am not applying this specifically to Mesidor just in general.

I hope that isn’t ketchup for those delicious fried chicken tenderloins

I have never been that high on Hunt. The money is too much. I guess my standards are unrealistic but I have seen him getting pushed around. A 100 million in 2023 standards should never get pushed around. I am not saying he sucks at all but I think we could get pushed around a lot cheaper. Now he has torn biceps, and something g else got torn in the WC game. Then you look at the run game with BC subbing in, absolutely no falloff and possible improvement. I haven’t accounted for who he was dealing with to really judge it. But I think we need to see him play a few games before committing more year(s) and money to him.

They are just tenders. Not signed deals. Right?

Hell no on Becton.

He is decent backup level though. Nothing against him but that is the truth. So what is behind him?

Lol yeah I never would have gotten that one.

I liked that Eager… I think Eager, maybe Tillis too, but they have probabilities of every guy on their board still being there by a given point. Whether it is a full round or 20 picks or whatever. It seems to work.

I wouldn’t mind Hill at all.

He has had the surgery so that should have happened. Life can be tough and cold sometimes, he is set though. Should have a comfortable future if he never plays another down.

The guy was a journeyman here for a few weeks at year’s end. Probably brought in to be a returner or something. I barely remember him. I remember the name mostly because of Eddie Murphy’s SNL pimp sketches. Which was Velvet Jones. I misremembered it as Venus lol. I think the pattern is, journeymen brought in at the end of a season, will journey on somewhere else most of the time. So do most 5th round picks though.

I would love that. We may need to be pretty serious about next year’s 1st round.