(12-15-2018, 06:04 AM)DragonFury Wrote: Here's a little secret: When you sign a quarterback to a $54 million contract a few weeks after he had two fantastic games in the playoffs against top level competition, you don't then start signing other players to directly compete against him. That would be sending all the wrong messages; "Here's $26.5 million guaranteed, and by the way, we still don't think you're going to be the man in future so we're going to pay/draft this other dude as well."

They should've never signed him to the extension. Two fantastic games or not, the guy had a history of erratic and uneven play throughout his career. Extension or not, when you have a QB like this, you better have a good backup plan. We had none. Message or not, by not signing some QB competition, we really screwed ourselves. If the QB you have is such a mental case that a little competition is gonna break him, you have the wrong QB. There is just no arguing this point. This is a QB driven league. Failure at that position leads to failure of the team in one way or another.

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