(11-06-2019, 10:02 AM)SamusAranX Wrote:

(11-06-2019, 07:08 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: I find it odd how invested folks are in this QB decision. What impact will it really have? 

Given the state of our roster right now and the performances the entire team has turned in, neither of these QBs is good enough to overcome the overall deficiencies.

Backdooring our way into the playoffs would be a minor miracle with either guy and actually winning a postseason game would be nothing short of divine intervention.

That’s the frustrating part; if you’re paying a QB 88 million dollars, he better be the kind that *can* overcome those deficiencies.

There are only a small handful of those quarterbacks in existence. Aside from the ones still on rookie contracts, they are all making more than Nick Foles. Foles contract was what the market bared for a an upper-mid-tier journeyman with recent success. It was basically somewhere between similar mid tier journeyman contracts that happened recently with Cousins and Keenum a couple of years ago. It had precedent and did not dictate or mandate some elite level performance from the QB. 

If they were signing a sure fire, overcome-roster-problems guy, then they'd be paying what teams have recently paid guys like Wilson, Ryan, Rodgers and Stafford.

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