There's no way that Buffalo would've traded their 2nd rounder for Teddy after trading 2 2nds for Josh Allen to begin with. Then there is the insurmountable problem of us being division rivals whom will likely never trade with each other.
Why in the world would a team going nowhere trade a 2nd for a QB that's gonna be a free agent and just spent a 1st rounder on a QB?
Indeed I do, but one must use it wisely. I try to let these kind of threads simply run their course but there's always someone who will come along and resurrect it. At some point I will close it, but for now I'm actually enjoying the futility of it.
Where Mac “screwed up” (he didn’t) was that Bridgewater was only on a one year deal. Obviously other teams used that as leverage to pay less for him. Had Mac locked him up to a very team friendly long term deal then teams would have probably given us a 2nd. The problem was Bridgewater came off that knee injury and that would have been stupid to do.
Also there's no way Bridgewater would accept a multi-year deal at a number dictated by two year's worth of missed games. Suppose he came in year 1 and lit it up? He'd be a proven starting-caliber QB making somewhere between $5-10 mil with no way to get himself the deal he deserves.
This was something I said at the time - if Bridgewater would have taken an extra million or two to include a team option for 2019 then Macc was IMO very stupid to not go for it. That's a very big if, but I certainly hope Macc at least tried, as it would have given the Jets a lot more flexibility, either to keep him or trade him. If Bridgewater was unwilling to do it because he wanted to bet on himself then that's fine, but if Macc was unwilling to do it I think it was a big blunder in what was otherwise a brilliant signing.
Agreed. Teddy would not be a Bill. Hell, I have a hard time thinking that we'd trade him to the Giants if they came calling. In all reality, the Giants should have been the team to sign him before we ever did. But glad their heads were too far up Eli's ass to pull the trigger .
The Giants have their future QB in Davis Webb.... they had no need to draft or sign any QB last offseason whatsoever.
Because the Saints wouldn't make that trade. They think they are a Super Bowl favorite ... Bridgewater is insurance in case Brees has to miss an extended period of time. As I said at the time of the Saints trade, we were in an incredibly unusual situation in that we had the best young backup QB in the league and absolutely no reason to want him to remain the roster. Usually when a team has the best young backup QB, they have all kinds of reasons to want to hold on to him ... and therefore that player never becomes available.
Whether this is true or not hardly matters. Hind sight is 20/20 even if this might have transpired. Mac cleared a roster spot for another player and took a bird in the hand over two in the bush. The expression "if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle" comes to mind
I trust you understand this phrase no longer applies. Your ball packing aunt could still identify as your aunt.
Do you ever stop whining? He got ripped off? Because YOU think he should have or could have gotten more? For a gimpy QB with a one year contract? LOL, ok
