Quote:And if/when those guys come available, let us know.

 

Right now the top FA QB options are Bradford, Foles (gonna get paid), Fitzy (probably gonna get paid), Henne, Daniel, and a slew of guys that can't possibly be worth two dead flies.

 

OK, so a lot of back ups went .500 on their teams or around there.

If Henne starts 2 games for a dinged up Bortles, you don't think he could go 1-1?

But Chase Daniel could?

 

Schaub has been known to lose more games than win.

Hasslebeck is old, and likely done.

2 of those QBs won those games in spite of their performances and mostly on the back of that Houston D, plus a couple games against the Jags would never hurt anyone's chances.

 

Fact is... when it comes to backups you got two kinds... the young developing kind (drafted in mid rounds, might be a future guy, might be a project) and the old journeyman kind.

The young ones usually sit behind older vets. The old ones usually sit behind highly drafted guys (Like Luck and Bortles).

 

ANY back up in the NFL can win you some games if your team around them is good enough. Ours isn't. So unless you're gonna get a back up that plays as well as Bortles, it doesn't matter who is back there.

Can Henne... I don't care. Sign some other schmuck to make a buck watching.

If they come at a way cheaper price. 

 

But if you're telling me paying Chase Daniel 4 mil is better than paying Henne 4 mil.... well I ain't buying it.

It's a wash, at least.

 

I posted a lengthy list at the beginning of this thread of guys set to hit free agency, I'm not doing it again.  Sure, some of them may re-sign with their teams and a lot of them are scrubs, but not all of them.  Talking about guys set to hit free agency is "ok" on a football message board, right?  Players usually like to hit the market when they're scheduled to do so.  Yeah Henne might be able to go 1-1 if called upon.  Are you confident in 2-2 or *gasp* 3-3 if need be?  I think it's worthy of discussion and apparently you do too despite your post supporting the lament of this thread's creation.

 

If you think it doesn't matter who backs Bortles up next season, then you have to be in the camp of this is a 5 or 6 win team at best next year regardless of what happens this offseason.  That's fine to think that way, but if you're expecting significant talent to be acquired this offseason coupled with the continued progression of our young players and anticipating that to put our expectations at 8 or more wins next season, I don't know how you could say that discussing our backup QB situation is a waste of time or annoying or whatever.

 

And apparently you missed this post below which was a couple of pages back:

 

Quote:I don't know. Chase is 6'0". Guys that height that play well enough are the exception not the rule. A game or two? Yeah maybe. 4 or more? No way. He had success this year in two games for KC where they play Andy Reid's west coast offense. I think he's a good backup in that system. I don't think he would be able to take advantage of Robinson's ability to win the 50/50 balls downfield though. We'd have to run a completely different offense if he came in as the backup here.

 

And I later clarified that he didn't actually start those two games and only had a couple of pass attempts this year.  I'm solidly not on the Chase Daniel bandwagon for this team just as solidly as I'm not against re-signing Henne.  I like the idea of taking a look at all the options though and it's clear to me there are varying levels of quality play from the backup QB market.

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