I'd be good with that only if there were no top Edge or OT candidates available at #16 AND they traded the 1st for a 1st and a 2nd or very early 3rd.
He has ~$20M dead money that will be hitting the cap over the next 1-2 years whether he is released, retained or traded. 2/3 of his 2023 money was pushed forward.
He has a 17M dead cap hit if he's cut. I believe that's gauranteed.
Well then better start putting the feelers out their. See if there is anyone desperate enough for an average aging QB? Be lucky to get a 4th rd pick out of him, even if taking him for is position as a backup.
Yep. Once the dead money is on the books it is there regardless of whether the player is retained, released, or traded. Future dead money accelerates into the current season without a post 6/1 designation.
Geno is worth, at minimum, a 2nd and a 3rd because his contract is so low related to production. Comparable QBs will be getting $35-50M in 2024.
You mean besides proven starting-level production, the record for all time go ahead touchdowns set this year, better overall processing, better pocket awareness, and top-half numbers in nearly every regard over the past two years? Plus a winning record on a team with a consistently terrible defense, vanishing running game, and generally bad OL?
And that is where the trouble is. The league as a whole the QB position as a whole is underwhelming. I believe alot of it has to due between guys like Brady, Roethlisberger, and Brees retiring. Then you add in covid, which led to dead QB drafts in '21 & '22. So now here we are seeing average Joe's making $40+ mil a year, why? Desperation! I'm not an NFL scout, but I see 10+ potential NFL starters entering the Draft the next 2 years. Which are better then the average we are witnessing on Sundays now?
If that’s accurate JS should be on the phone now*. I’d bank that draft stock for the new coach in a heart beat.
Proven starting-level production, better overall processing, better pocket awareness, and top-half numbers in nearly every regard over the past two years all factors of being in the same system for all those years.
That will totally change with the new scheme and playcalling/audibling etc. We may have better pass blocking that we thought.
DK is a known quantity. No draft pick ever will be, no matter how high.
JS would not have drafted a QB maybe in any round in that draft.
We have our own sloppy seconds, thank you very much.
Good things happen, you frame them into a bad thing. All the proof I need that this is mental gymnastics to protect priors. It's transparent.
Depends on the next HC. Pete wasn’t utilizing DK, that’s why I thought we should trade him. But if we get a guy who showcases his talents, then I wouldn’t trade him.
Undrafted players are %100 question marks. There countless stories of highly-touted busts. We should only use picks to trade up. The brilliant JS has never traded players for picks.
I think he'd be at best, maybe 5-10% better than Geno with our roster, but cost way more. All that Achilles tear did was save him from embarrassing himself in the playoffs or at the end of the regular season. Cousins behind our o-line this season would've been no better than Geno and quite possibly worse.
