Indy was really the only team that made sense since Reich was his OC back when he was good. Not really surprised there were no other bidders.
Yeah this was the perfect landing spot for him. If there's a situation that can revive his career it's this one. Also, I predict Philly will be back in the QB market within a year or two. I don't think Hurts is the answer for them either. What a gut punch for Philly fans (not that I feel to bad for them since they still got a title) to have a guy you draft play at an MVP level in his second season and you think you're set for the next decade plus then he gets hurt, completely loses his confidence, and becomes a malcontent. I can't think of a QB that's had that career trajectory with a team.
Philly let him go for peanuts, they didnt even care they just wanted him out.
Yeah I'm not sold on Hurts being more than average.
RGIII is about the closest comparison I can think of - wins ROY, looks like an absolute revelation -- then hurts his knee and is never the same again. Way to go, Mike Shanahan.
On a related note - Washington drafted both RGIII and Kirk Cousins in the same draft. Not enough teams have the balls to be bold in drafting QBs like that. I think you should see more of that approach for QB-starved teams.
The Plan at the moment:
Draft: Trade a 3rd and 6th this year to a team to move up and get a 2nd next year (this will happen).
Players I want:
Jake Ferguson (Jake Butt) or Jelani Woods or Jeremy Ruckert or Cade Otten (owen daniels) at TE- All 4th rd or later.
Troy Anderson LB 3rd/4th rd (yay Timmy!)
Neil Farrell, JR DL- run stuffer- bye purcell
Away he Wentz.
I miss the old Mile High Stadium.
It's because the NFL allows teams to prorate bonuses over multiple years on the cap - so if you signed a $10 million signing bonus, the team would only have to count $2 million of that towards this year's cap and the remaining $8 million could get spread out across future years. But if you cut or trade a player, then all of that guaranteed bonus money becomes immediately due against the cap. So Wentz had $33 million in bonus money remaining, and they can no longer spread it across the remaining years of his contract.
In other words, Wentz already got the money, now they have to record it against their cap in one lump sum instead of spreading it out.
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