I think they should cut Bradford if they can get Foles.
Rams reportedly interested in Foles
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Why cut Bradford right away if they obtain Foles? Wouldn't you let them battle it out in camp to decide who is the better QB? If it truly is Bradford, Foles is a great backup (and is paid like one). If Foles beats out Bradford, we can cut Bradford and move on, using the extra cap space to resign other players whose contracts expire later. Why cut him as soon as you obtain Foles?
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View: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/574710220577992704
Foles might already be dealt and we don't know it yet. Maybe a handshake deal involving the Eagles moving up for Mariota. I could see the Titans being all over such a deal.
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Correct if the Eagles are moving up to get Mariota then Foles is involved in the deal, IMO, with the Jets perhaps, but the Rams could throw a monkey wrench into things and trade up with the Jaguars, but that won't happen as the Rams seem okay being on the outside looking in.
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QBs lose too much if they are not working with their offensive team. Bradford coming back after nearly 20 month absence means, he will end up in the bottom 16 when 2015 comes to a pass. I have no confidence in this man except that he is the best option for 2015. Period.
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HAVE FAITH DAMMIT!
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Alright. Alright. Don't scream at me. I will continue to pretend I have faith in him.
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That's all us Bradford fans ask of you.
I most defiantly understand where your coming with him not in the O for some months, but it's not like he hasn't been with them at all for 20 months.
They talk and have practice all the time together.....just not many regular season games with each other.
And as you said, he is our best option if we were to bring in anyone, I'd gurantee Bradford would beat them out for the starting job.
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The point of acquiring Foles would be to keep Bradford. That would give us two QBs with season ending injuries last year. Hopefully, the pair of them could play a combined 16 games and then we could decide who we want to keep after the season.(because both are in the last year of their contract)
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amen to that. let them fight it out. we know foles can be good and limit turnovers although he was shaky last season. still a better option in my eyes than cutler.
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Maybe. But he's going to cost a lot more than Cutler in terms of draft pick compensation and Foles has been a very turnover prone guy too aside from the 2013 season. In 2014, he turned it over 13 times in 8 games. In 2012 under Andy Reid, he turned it over 8 times in 7 games.
So you take the good with the bad...in Foles's case, we'll have to either trade down with Philly or give up a draft pick to get him but we keep Bradford and Foles is younger than Cutler. However, Foles or Bradford are going to have to get paid after the season if we want to keep them and it's possible that neither are our QB of the future. In Cutler's case, we don't keep Bradford but we also likely don't give up a draft pick. However, Cutler is about $1.1 million more expensive this year than the Foles/Bradford combo and we'd have to pay him $16 million in 2016 but that also gives us time to find a QB of the future. Pros and cons to both deals.
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If we get Foles, I don't see us cutting ties from Bradford, it'd really just put us right back in the same situation we're already in right now. A complete unknown who we have no idea if he can do it or not. Might as well keep them and let them duke it out in camp. Lighting a fire under Bradford's ass might actually do something worthwhile.
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That would be a grand plan, however, IMO, Foles either stays of is part of the trade up deal for Mariota.
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What are the Eaglets doing ??? Cut McCoy only to apparently pick up Frank Gore...'Splain that one to me please
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They are going with a committee approach and Gore is part of that committee and will end up costing much less.
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That's it.
Me; if I'm building a team I'm not sinking a lot of money in a RB. That money is needed elsewhere.
I'm filling the position with a steady diet of young legs, mid/late picks, UDFA. If I want some experience mixed in, maybe a short deal with a guy like Gore.
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If I'm building a team, I'm utilizing the talent I have and the talent I can acquire. Basically, if Marshall Faulk wants to be the highest paid HB in the league and the Colts don't want to pay him...I'll happily pay him and take him off their hands at a discount.