(01-23-2019, 04:40 PM)JagsorDie Wrote:

(01-23-2019, 04:28 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote: Not saying is as a guy who likes Blake. It just doesn’t make any sense finicially period, and if they do cut him I sure hope to see Foles and a rookie.

So if you are GM, what backup is available for 4.5M better than Blake? Name one.

I agree that it doesn't make financial since. But I think in the cap situation we are going to find ourselves in this offseason, we are going to have to shave every dollar we can. 

I think that the if you exclude the financial situation, you have to look at what keeping him is going to do to our locker room and fanbase. I don't think keeping him around is going to send a good message around this young locker room. I don't think bortles has been a locker room cancer like some people believe, but I think that any one with half a mind about football knows that bortles is not going to be the person who leads this team to the next level. How could you tell a group of guys that we are not throwing in the towel on next season while keeping a 20 mil a year signal caller around for a financial purpose only. 

If you bring in a top guy in FA, You have to get rid of him. if he is NOT going to be the starter come week one, I think you have to get rid of him as well. That is just me. having a guy who is the back up making 20 mil a year no matter what the dead cap game comes out to is not a good look IMO.

I’m not saying keep this guy as the starter lol. I’m as big a Bortles basher as the next guy. You keep him to be the back up, that’s it. Who cares about look at this point it’s only for a year, the FO looked like absolute fools in the first place giving the contract. Forget about look and do what’s right for the team for once. No player or fan hates Blake. Most of us just agree he just isn’t that good at all. Could he be a serviceable back up? Yeah sure. Are we going to find one better than him for 4.5M? Absolutely not. Forget optics and thinking about what others think. Get your starter in the draft or grab Foles in FA, leave Bortles as the back up ... and sleep in the bed you made. Cutting Bortles and then finding a decent backup only means cutting more players and making the wound even deeper than it already is. This FO has been making horrendous decisions lately, it’s time to make a smart one.

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