Saints appear ready to keep Hill over Bridgewater

[Mr. Scot]

Per Jay Glazer...

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Saints quarterback Drew Brees has not yet decided whether to retire. If he chooses to stay, the Saints will welcome him back with open arms. But the Saints also believe that in Taysom Hill, they have their quarterback of the future already on the roster.

Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported today that Saints coach Sean Payton believes that Hill is ready to become the Saints’ franchise quarterback as soon as Brees retires.

The problem for the Saints is that they only have about $12 million in cap space for 2020, and that makes it financially difficult to afford to keep both Brees and Hill. With Hill set to become a restricted free agent, the Saints may put a first-round tender on Hill and then wait to see whether some team makes him an offer. If that were to happen, the Saints would have to decide whether to match that offer or to take that team’s first-round draft pick.

Teddy Bridgewater, who took over for the injured Brees for five games last season and led the Saints to a 5-0 record, also becomes a free agent in March. There’s no way the Saints could afford to keep all three quarterbacks, so it would seem likely that they’ll let Bridgewater walk.

Saints want to keep Taysom Hill as Drew Brees heir apparent

[Jon Snow]

Marty's on the phone right now offering up our 1st for Hill.

[Untouchable]

Kicking that can eventually has its consequences.

[Daddy_Uncle]

lol they think they are so brilliant 

[Ship]

This is a pretty big moment for the Saints-- whether Brees retires or not, it's only another year or two away. They either keep Teddy or Taysom for the QB of the future. If they get it wrong, the other guy is gone and they will have to start over. We'll see if they get it right.

[Mr. Scot]

Bridgewater would be very familiar with the kind of system Joe Brady wants run if we were to go that route.

So would Hill, but if the Saints put a first round tender on him, I just can't see doing that.

[djp14]

So the 30-year old guy is their future?

 

[onmyown]

11 minutes ago, Untouchable said:

Kicking that can eventually has its consequences.

(est. 2014)

[NanuqoftheNorth]

What a nice problem to have: 3 potential franchise QBs on your roster.

Cry me a river.

[Harbingers]

Bridgewater to TB. TB goes 13-3 next year. Saints go 3-13 with the two wins against the panthers who go 1-15. The one win against TB. 

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, djp14 said:

So the 30-year old guy is their future?

To be fair, the present is 41.

[TheRumGone]

1 minute ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

What a nice problem to have: 3 potential franchise QBs on your roster.

Cry me a river.

Taysom hill is not a franchise qb

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, TheRumGone said:

Taysom hill is not a franchise qb

May or may not be, but apparently Payton thinks he is.

It's better for us if he's wrong, of course.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

1 minute ago, TheRumGone said:

Taysom hill is not a franchise qb

Maybe not, but the Saints have a better track record when it comes to sorting out their QB position than the Panthers do, so I wouldn't be so quick to discount their final decision.