(09-30-2019, 10:13 AM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote: One impression I got is we really need a weapon for Minshew in the slot. O-line isn't protecting Minshew very well and he needs an option to throw the ball quick. Chark, Conley, and Westbrook doing a good job on the outsides and the TE's are doing what they can, but the perfect slot guy for us happened to be playing for the opponent yesterday. Emmanuel Sanders would be the perfect slot weapon for the Stache. Guy is set to be a UFA after the season, 32 y/o, won't be resigning with the Broncos, and will likely be moving on to a team like the Pats or a big time contender. At 0-4, time to sell. Could throw the Broncos our other 5th rounder from the Fowler trade, since we completely wasted the other one on Dobbs.

It's hard for me to knock the Dobbs trade too much. This is a guy that was well-regarded coming into the 2017 draft as someone who has the ability and the tools to develop into a starter. The problem is that he hits UFA after 2020, and trading or releasing Foles before the beginning of the 2021 year would trigger a bigger dead cap hit than keeping him would. That said, there are still opportunities to get that fifth-round pick back with some showcasing in the preseason. This isn't a Carlos Hyde trade. He's not an aging player who was never going to return the value we spent on him. This is a young QB with brighter days ahead of him, and someone who would have been Roethlisberger's heir apparent had Rudolph not been available at a point where the Steelers thought he would be long gone.

If the Jaguars cut Dobbs as soon as Foles is back, well, then, yeah. They're idiots. But I don't see that. I see an inexpensive, young, well-regarded QB with the physical tools of a David Garrard type, and I'd definitely have given up a fifth-round pick for Garrard at just about any point in his Jaguars career.

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