Not sure you can pay a placeholder free agent QB and absorb Blake's cap hit in 2019 and have it make sense financially. You'd have to be paying a free agent QB something like $12.5 million or less to start here next year for it to really make sense. If you're paying more, you have to believe whoever that is is a significant upgrade to Blake and probably will need to commit for multiple years. I'm thinking they either roll with Blake and a rookie next year or cut Blake with plans on starting a rookie immediately and finding a back up to come here on a back up's salary and not placeholder starter money. Glennon got $16 million for the role of placeholder starter 2 years ago. Tyrod got the same amount this season. You'd have to expect anyone coming here and doing the same thing would probably command $16 million or more in 2019.

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