Derek Carr's issue was getting his head beat in weekly behind a shit OL. The Jet OL is far better and could provide Carr with enough incentive to play one last year. Should come down to what condition he's still in and what capability he still has.
I'm on your page. Now THERE is a GM that will never see another GM job, ever. He'll be lucky to land on someone's scouting staff after that debacle. Which leads me to a question that has bugged me since he did that dumbassery last year: WHAT IS IT with these GM types and "their" draft picks? "Oooo, I didn't draft him so we need to go with the guy I drafted." Bro, you just won 14 games with a guy that YOU saw fit enough to sign to your team! Talk about looking the "gift horse" in the mouth and then slapping said horse! Just because you drafted a kid in the 1st round doesn't mean you shit up the team because your ego has to have it's ass kissed. Anyone with HALF a football brain cell knew THAT wasn't going to go well. Not like Darnold wasn't a top FIRST ROUND draft pick of an NFL team or something. Wasn't like he was an undrafted FA that had been knocking around the league. I tell you, if these dudes could get of HALF their own way there'd be a lot more success in the NFL. Crazy insane... That's TWICE now that Seattle can thank the Jets. They had a pretty nice run with Geno and now just nailed down a SB with Sam. And fuck all if Darnold doesn't have at least another 10 years ahead of him leading that team.
Carr would have been a bad choice 3 years ago, he'd be an even worse choice no. Absolutely not. And Schefter wrote yesterday that if the Cards are gonna trade a QB it looks like it's going to be Kyler, not Brissett. Understandably.
Seattle drafted very well, got good FAs. But when it comes to QB, they got super lucky with Sam after unfathomable mistake by the Vikings, which got their GM fired. I doubt something like this will happen again. They were even saying on the broadcast Sam was the 1st one in NFL history to lead a team to SB victory after being bounced around like that.
No one should ever try to recreate the Seahawks path to a title. It won't work. The only comparable thing I can think of is Kurt Warner in 2008 but he was also an MVP and Super Bowl winning QB. The journeyman QB gimmick rarely ends in anything other than a playoff appearance which I guess would be great for us currently but I'd much rather find a longterm solution rather than praying for a miracle.
Thing about Sam is, look who he bounced around to... Draft by the biggest turd in the modern NFL Moved on to another one of the turds in the NFL Finally got to a place where QB's are valued and a man who understands how to teach QB's, knew it was going to be a brief stop because of Purdy Here's the real head scratcher, landed on another good team and was inexplicably tossed aside Then there's the Seahawks Had Purdy not be in San Francisco he'd still be there and had Minny's GM not been a complete buffoon it's a better than average bet that would have been Minnesota in the SB and not Seattle. At least, in the conversation. At the end of all this, just pisses me off that I continue to support a team that leads the league in self inflicted damage. Year in and out. If you believe in the theory that SB caliber QB's only come along so often, that would mean the Jets shit their wad back in 2018 and are now back "on the clock" for a SB caliber QB that could last another decade. JSMH I did not, nor do not consider Sam Darnold a "journeyman" QB. That title is reserved for the Brissetts, Minschews, Wentz's of the world who have had a very large hand in their constant movement to multiple teams. Darnold landed in TWO of the top shit piles of the NFL and one where the intent was to come in and put himself back together. You simply can't count the Minny one because any GM worth half a shit would have never let him walk out the building. I don't care if Minny had drafted McCarthy #1 overall, you don't let a guy walk out the building who just won you 14 games. Full stop.
Agreed! Well that GM got canned for that decision and rightfully so Why you would throw away a QB that you KNOW works in your system for a rookie who didn’t play that you HOPE will play just as well is crazy to me. I think ego is a big part of it. Oh they may say well it’s money because we can pay a rookie salary instead of paying Sam, but that’s kind of just an excuse. The whole idea is to GET A QB. They had one. GM got cocky and bet on his own shit, and it backfired. Good for him. But you know, we have had our own version of this stuff too, just not with a QB. We just saw our GM trade away two all pro caliber players to get himself some picks, that he now has to hope that they turn into players as good as the ones that he just traded away. I’m a big believer in you don’t get better by trading away good players, so we’ll see how it works out for us. I get both guys underperformed this year but to me, you have to ask if that is due to a decline in talent or due to changes in coaching and scheme and motivation. I’d say as they are both still young guys, I’d point to coaching. We’ll see…I get the cap and the bounty of picks and all that, but now Mougey will have to deliver with all these picks.
The arguments against Kirk Cousins as a 2026 option at QB (assuming he gets his release) are starting to sound as emotionally driven and irrational to me as the ones at this time last year that were arguing we needed to move on from an already-in-house Aaron Rodgers (who at the time was clearly the best QB play option that was realistically going to be available to us for the foreseeable future). Frank Reich is going to need a QB that can take over a bad culture franchise (that isn't changing no matter what we do), pick up a year 1 offense on the fly, and hopefully show a high enough floor while doing it that we aren't left firing everybody (again) at the end of the year. Since if we can't finally get over that first hurdle then we just stay stuck never finding any continuity that is needed to move every good franchise forward. Not liking Cousins for that current need is kinda silly imo.
