I am not sure where the improvement you saw was because it didn't show up to me on tape. Even compared to 33 years olds Hyde and Poyer he was comfortably worse.
Peak Keenum I agree. The version we got was past his best Keenum and worse than Mitch.
Minschew I agree is better but he will get a considerably better deal as a result. Wentz royally sucks. He is worse than Mitch and indeed WAS out of the league much of last season. Tyrod isn't coming back here.
I don't mind it if it is a "he gives us a baseline going into FA and draft" but man.... if he is to start???? Big downgrade even on 2023 version of Jordan Poyer.
If that is as reported it is a proper pay cut.
What I mean by that is it isn't a restructure and it isn't swapping non-guaranteed money for a smaller amount of guaranteed money.
Von's $17.5m salary this year was FULLY guaranteed. He is taking a near $9m pay cut (who knows what the incentives are). That is significant.
Yea as of right now I imagine McGovern is our starting center and Edwards is starting left guard. Anderson will get a chance to compete as will any draft pick they make.
Yea that may well have been the position. But if they were playing hard ball then at that point he was not a lock.
I should say I like the restructure idea better than the extension idea with Douglas. Although it does mean this time next year we will likely be in the cornerback market early in the draft unless Elam suddenly turns it around.
I don't rate Haack. Bringing him back when Martin might have missed a playoff game made some sense. Less than a week to prep, familiarity with Bass etc. But bringing him back to be your main punter... yea not a fan.
What was quite a stretch? That it wasn't a lock he was back? Do you know that it was?
He is back. I was clear that was still a possibility. What the presser did was raise the possibility he might not have been.
Yea I do sort of see the thinking from a resource allocation perspective. I was talking about cost v talent for Edwards.
They did. But if there was a game tomorrow and Morse was out they'd trust the vets IMO. Anderson absolutely has a shot at winning that job out of camp though.