This is going to be the offseason of a lot of QB moves.
Brees, Manning, Bradford, Kaepernick, RGme.
Cousins, Osweiler, and Fitzpatrick are free agents (not likely to move).
Could be an interesting offseason at the position.
Oh... And... I don't see Brees coming here. Although, a good running game with a few less passes might actually extend his career.
I agree and this franchise is poised to win with a veteran QB. Brees has all the personal accolades he'll ever want. He doesn't have a ring and he's NEVER had a defense. Coming to St. Louis, he'd have a young and up and coming OL (sure seems that way the last 3 weeks, don't it?), a STAR RB, and a top 5 D, especially when it's not decimated with injuries.
And Fisher's a player's coach, so he's the kind of HC who will care about prolonging a player's career and taking care of him. Player's really gravitate to coaches like that.
Frankly, the ONLY issue that I have with Brees coming here is that with the play of Trujo elevating these past few weeks, I dunno if we'll be able to afford both of them. Heck, if we don't want to tag either of them, we might not be able to afford either of them which would have been a crazy thought 5 weeks ago. No way Trujo is a 4-5M/yr player after vying for the league lead in INTs and playing as well in all facets as he has this year. He's going to command top dollar. Maybe even rival JJ.
That's my ONLY issue. It means likely losing guys like Fairley who actually put in a lot of work on our OL as well as either losing or significantly restructuring CL.
I think Brees shaking loose is a very long shot, but I can see them going into rebuild mode and eating that $10M versus having him count $30M on the cap, especially if Payton is out. They very well might try to trade with Miami, but they have a young QB who's improving and I dunno that it's worth it to go with Brees for a few years and then trust the folks there to try and find another QB. After Marino, look how long it took just to find someone as good as Tannehill and Ryan Tannehill isn't exactly the definition of a franchise QB.
As for drafting a QB, IF and ONLY IF we somehow get Brees, I wouldn't draft a QB. Nope. I'd stick with Brees, Keenum and Mannion because we KNOW that Keenum is capable and can win games in the pinch if Brees went down and I'd continue to develop Mannion. Especially because of the money juggling required if we got Brees, we'd need those picks on D, especially the DL, anyway...
Man, alive, it's going to be an interesting and potentially exciting off-season!
