(11-28-2018, 11:49 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(11-28-2018, 12:06 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Personally - I'm totally down with drafting the best guy they can maneuver for and letting him sit half the season if he needs to do so.
If Kessler does OK down the stretch - the rookie could sit behind him till he's ready.  If they need to sign a different journeyman to placehold, that's fine too.

I'm not opposed to chasing a vet with the intention of starting him, I'd just rather go the rookie development route for cap purposes if they think they can get their guy that way.

I don't think they can afford to go after a Vet QB honestly (none of them are any good anyways). Paying another QB $12+mil per year and having to bite the bullet on Bortles' $$, all while on an already limited budget? I don't see it, nor should they do it imo.

Draft a QB in the 1st, or 2nd round and go from there. Go young, draft your guy and hope he's the one. Helping out the cap space a little bit in the process.

Cutting Malik Jackson and Barry Church would give us around $17m. That'd be enough to free up Bortles' dead cap if we cut him.

You're probably right.  The cost would be prohibitive and/or counterproductive in terms of what you'd give up. 

Hopefully that steers them into the preferred method of drafting young talent. 

(Regarding the cap and cuts, I think it's safe to say that Church is gone and one of the three big D-Line salaries will be gone too)

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