QB strategy

RFA

 

>> Pair him with Boller

but does it make sense to draft the third best QB 2 years in a row?

>> It's a crap shoot

i think magnus is right. trouble is ya gotta take roll the dice some or ya never gonna end up with a QB worth a damn.

>> for every Gannon or Johnson

strange that Gruden resurrected both those guys from the gutters and they become MVP types; meanwhile R. Johnson still looks like dogmeat

 

yeah it makes sense if you took the 3rd best last year and still don't have a Quarterback...

 

Shit, we should at least make an offer and see if Atlanta matches it.

 

If we want to be a playoff team next year starting a rookie is not going to get it done. Even if we drafted Palmer he would not be ready right away. I think we have to look for a veteran QB who can step in and start right away. Rodney Peete is not the answer he is at the end of his career and he has never been very good. Last year was one of his best and that should tell you all you need to know.

I like Jack Delhomme too but I am not sure of his availability. A lot of good QBs were acquired like Brett Favre, Mark Brunell, Steve Young etc. I see no reason not to bring in a guy to be our starter. Maybe we do draft a QB pretty high to be the future but we need a better answer for next season. Chad Pennington is in his third year not his first. I do not think any rookie QB is gonna lead a team to the playoffs.

 

What does the first sentence of this post from the other day say? Looks like we're pretty much on the same page Thelt...

 

Yeah, 1999 was one of Beuerlein's best years too, do you have a point? I really don't see a problem with Peete if we're going to be a run-first team.

 

that RFA link is kinda old, it still shows Casey Crawford as RFA with the Panthers...

 

from profootballtalk.com

"STEWART HAS NO SUITORS, SO FAR

Speaking of washed up former starters, the Pittsburgh Steelers are finding that no one is interested in trading for Kordell Stewart, according to a league source.

This is hardly a shock. Despite solid performances by Stewart following a November injury to Tommy Maddox, the 31 other teams realize that the Steelers have little leverage in this equation. They surely won't keep Stewart, given his obscenely high cap number for 2003. So why make it easy on them?

Plus, teams will be skittish about giving up picks, unless they're fairly certain that Stewart can be signed to a manageable long-term deal. In our view, Stewart needs to languish on the shelf for a while in the hopes that his unreasonably high opinion of his own talents will slide into a range that teams will find more palatable.

Our guess is that the Steelers won't hear much, if anything, until the free agency period opens. Even then, there's a chance that the rest of the league will wait for Kordell and his fat contract to be cut loose, and then the interested teams will start talking to him."

 

Shaun King update:

BUCS THINK SHAUN SHOULD SHUT UP

Tampa reserve quarterback Shaun King is using sports' biggest stage as an opportunity to troll for future employment. And his teammates don't like it one bit.

For those of you who primarily are focusing attention on the men who'll actually play in the Super Bowl, you might have missed King's comments on media day.

"I have been a starter in this league," King said Tuesday, "and a pretty good one, I think."

At least one of King's teammates agreed. "Yeah, he was a starter . . . and a sorry ass one at that." Added another: "He needs to shut the f--k up." (This seems to be a popular off-the-record turn of phrase for NFL players who aren't enamored with something a colleague has said.)

"Don't get me wrong," King added, "I'm thrilled for this franchise, for everything it has been through. This is a great moment. But I'd be lying if I was to stand here and pretend I didn't want to be a bigger part of all this."

And we'd be lying, Shaun, if we didn't remind you that you've had your chance -- and that you suckified your way right out of it.

Nevermind the fact that legitimately King lost his starting job to Brad Johnson. When King had a chance to showcase his talents late in the 2002 season, he virtually put to rest any shot of getting a starting job elsewhere by getting yanked for Rob "Keanu" Johnson.