2023 QB Carousel
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It's kind of moot because he'll restructure but I don't think I agree. If he plays one year you pay him 60 million and the cap hits are 15 million this year 45 million next year. If he plays only two you pay him 60 this year, basically 50 million in 2024, and the cap hits are 15/30 and then 60 spread out over a year or two depending on how he leaves. That cap hit the year after he leaves is a pretty big one.
Rodgers' signing with the Jets will kick off a period of irrational exuberance among Jets fans and media. Making the playoffs will be insufficient. Given his age, current three-year decline, and inexperience with NYC-level scrutiny, I put the odds of a train wreck at no less than 50%.
Rodgers is also #2 on the ESPN nut juggling power rankings behind Lebron, so it'll be a circus far beyond the metro NY area. Ol Roge and the boys on Park Avenue high fiving if this comes to pass.
The low success rate of highly drafted quarterbacks has sure done wonders to the QB free agency market. Rodgers on the Jets and Brady out of retirement would sure make for an interesting 6 divisional games for the Pats though the chances of both of those things happening are pretty close to zero (mostly due to the later). I would welcome seeing Judon destroy Rodgers a few times a year though.
Too bad Bill is too smart to trade/spend the farm for Rodgers. That would also be entertaining
Too bad Bill is too smart to trade/spend the farm for Rodgers. That would also be entertaining
As a random aside, a periodic update that NY fans are insane. The Giants fan in my office informed me that Eli is actually the better Manning brother because of his superior arm (Eli's arm is a bit stronger I guess), and that the only reason ELi's career wasn't better is that he had twenty consecutive years of bad GMs. (I mentioned that JPP and Osi and Justin Tuck weren't bad and played a big part in two super bowl wins, Beckham wasn't terrible but didn't make a dent) Just odd to meet a fan knowledgeable enough to remember the David Wilson pick yet so frankly nuts. One particular oddity was that he thinks the Giants have been bad because of obvious busted picks were they Giants "deviated from consensus" to pick David WIlson, Erek Flowers, Eli Apple, and Engram so the GM could show how smart he was and should have picked respectively Isiah Pead, Andrus Peat, Vernon Hargreaves, and David Nkoku. Which is a remarkable feat of memory but doesn't seem to be a drafting mistake that makes a bit of difference.
I'm not a Giants fan, but I think I could write this post about every fan-base in the league, definitely including the Patriots (and Niners, who are my team).
Fans, on the whole, are dumb.
We've got folks still complaining about Chad Jackson so sure. But Eli Manning, best ever is certianly a take. As is "if only we'd taken Vernon hargreaves instead of Eli Apple."
It’s not a nightmare for a team trading for him, it’s a dream. His base salary the next two seasons is 3.4 million combined. It’s Green Bay who will be taking a hellish 102 million dollar dead cap hit if they trade him.
Unless I’m missing something?
Edit - I am
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Yes, the 102 goes to the new team who actually pays those amounts; that won't be GB's hit. GB does get tagged with something like 30 million for what's left of his signing bonus.
Ohhhh, it’s an Option Bonus. I thought it was a Signing Bonus.
Yeah, that contract sucks. The Jets are up against it salary cap wise, too. They’ll likely have to sacrifice future seasons to go for it with him now, give him some heavy guarantees on the back end.
yeah, OTC isn't perfect, but pretty good and this is where they have it:
https://overthecap.com/looking-ahead-to-the-packers-options-with-aaron-rodgers
$40M or so cap hit for a pre-June 1 trade to GB.
Post June 1 would be 16M this year 24-25M next
For the acquiring team:
$59.15M cap number if the option isn't picked up.
If it is about $16M, but a bunch more guaranteed money.
Cost to cut him after 2023.... $44M
in the last 2 years yeah his first 2 years were great but he had tail off due to INJ the nfl catching up to him and refuseing to play in the playoff game last year
BBTL: Where every thread ends in a discussion of whether Mac Jones moderately sucks or really, really sucks.
My guess is that posting about the Mookie Betts trade here is frowned upon, so we need something.
So, this sounds like it’s done lol:
View: https://twitter.com/torresadrianatv/status/1634311582615318530?s=42&t=-Ai-mpXJJ05V-SE-SPRBGA
View: https://twitter.com/torresadrianatv/status/1634311582615318530?s=42&t=-Ai-mpXJJ05V-SE-SPRBGA
Carolina is officially on the clock:
View: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1634320435838894081?s=20
View: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1634320435838894081?s=20
Bro that’s a lot. Shit man, is that for Bryce. Why not sign Lamar. I get that Bryce is cheaper.
I would take Fields over every QB in this draft - with the caveat that he of course has 2 years less of cost control. This gives him an elite weapon & lets them fill in some extra holes with a lot of draft capital.
The Bears weren't taking a QB, so that's a really good trade. They probably wanted to stay top 4 or 5 to get one of the top 2 non-QBs, but at that price going to 9 is worth it, now they just need to build out their O-line.
I agree with everything you say after this. I don’t understand why they aren’t taking a QB though.
I wasn't making a call on whether they should, just that they had made it clear they weren't.
I think they like Fields, and I think there is a lot to like there. He's an absurd weapon on the ground, and he showed improvement and flashes in the passing game despite by far the worst talent around him of any offense in the league last year. I mean if people here think Mac's supporting talent was bad, I think there's a good case every single Patriots offensive starter was better than his Bear's counterpart (maybe Jones over a hobbled Brown?)
Edit- I also think they recognize that they have the least talent in the league and that they need quantity of good picks to rebuild, and a new QB would be in the same bad spot as Fields was.
It might be a me issue, but I'm just not that into this QB class. & like CD said, the situation around Fields has been a disaster. I think there's something legit there & still wish the Pats had traded up for him when they had the chance. But that is a very dead horse.
They did somewhat, the reason they didn't do it more was:
1. He was putting up the best rushing QB performance ever
2. THis:
If those guys are what they're cracked up to be, unlikely teams in position to draft them are going to pass.
Not if it’s a team still building around around a young QB…like Carolina, who are going to ride out $48m in dead cap this season and break in a rookie QB. Sounds like a recipe for another top pick.
Looks like an awesome deal for the Bears until they draft a TE, 2 ILB, and a punt returner with the haul and the offense still blows because it's Chicago and that's what they do.
It really is amazing when you look at Bears history and you realize their best QB of ALL TIME is Jay Cutler.
Ol Lucky Sid played when the NFL used a ball made out of cardboard. He cannot be considered.
Yeah, when your season high in yards passing per game is 155.8, you just can't be compared to modern QBs.
Oh wait, that's Fields. Luckman broke 200 twice.
Oh wait, that's Fields. Luckman broke 200 twice.
It’s more a commentary on how crushingly mediocre Chicago QBs have been. Sid might be the only QB in franchise history that can say that the Bears won because of him rather than in spite of him.