(01-02-2019, 08:18 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(01-02-2019, 06:19 PM)FBT Wrote: Your starting Right Guard is a free agent, and your Right Tackle is running on fumes.  The right side of that line is going to require attention.  You also need to look at your LT situation and determine if Robinson can rebound from the injury AND his less than stellar play prior to the injury.    The line is more suspect than you think.


If this team drafts Grier, we'll be looking for a new QB in a year or two.  He's way too much of a project for this team.  Patience is one thing.  This would push that to the extreme.


Foles in the regular season isn't terribly magical, and definitely not worth what he may anticipate in free agency.  Regardless, the team still needs to bring in a veteran QB to hold the position until the rookie is developed and ready to play.  We can't afford to ruin a rookie by rushing him into action no matter how much the franchise needs it's own guy.  


I would take Lock over Grier.  Huge arm, decent athleticism, just needs to develop his game a bit.  


How?  If he's costing the team $20 million as a backup, he becomes expendable.  I don't think they'd trade the guy they're expecting to be their long-term solution at QB and stick with a guy who is a playoff hero, but mediocre otherwise.


Philly has to decide if they're exercising the option or not within a week of the Super Bowl concluding.  If they opt to retain him, they're paying their backup QB $20 million.  Nobody expects them to exercise that option, at which point he immediately becaomes a free agent.  It's not automatic, but it seems pretty likely that's going to happen.  My concern with Foles is that he's going to be expecting to get paid like a starter.  This team won't put the resources into paying him that kind of money.  They might as well just stick with Bortles if that's the case.  

BTW, I'm not advocating retaining Bortles.  I think that ship has sailed.  The team is going to need to find a veteran placeholder for next year.  I expect to see both Bortles and Kessler playing elsewhere.

I agree with your points for the most part, but regarding the part in bold.  I think that the team is going to pay far more for a veteran expecting the veteran to be more than a "placeholder".  I don't see the "future franchise" QB being drafted this season.  Looking at the team right now, I think that they bring in a veteran to be a "long term" solution for say 3-5 years and they are patient drafting the eventual replacement.  There is no immediate need to reach for a "franchise QB" in this coming draft.

I actually thought about this over the past several days and was going to post something similar.  With the draft being what it is for QB this year, if we're not at the top of the first round to be first in line to grab a QB, the pickings behind him are all projects.  I don't think the team will go the route of drafting someone with the hopes of him becoming the franchise guy.  I think you'll see them draft at some point in the first couple of days, but it won't be the first pick, so it's not going to be a guy competing for the starting role here right away.  If we can find a competent starter for the next couple of seasons, that takes the pressure off the team to draft their guy.  In that instance, they can focus on fixing the OL, WR, TE, and LB issues primarily.  Find the veteran who can best execute the new offense, and firm up the offense.  Without knowing who the OC is, I'm leaning toward a guy like Tyrod Taylor who is a decent game manager.  I think Foles is just going to be too expensive.

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