First of all, where is Denver getting the money to squeeze this in? Second of all, he's a horrible fit in that offense as most modern day quarterbacks are. Ya know the zone running game, play action deep ball type of offense. The only two guys that are really built for that type of offense are Flacco and Roethlisberger as they're the best deep ball throwers in the league, and even Big Ben plays in the spread. Romo can run it, and I could see Stafford having some success in it if he got the running game to support it. Outside of that, Kubiak needs to get with the times and while Peyton's skills were diminishing because of injury, I firmly believe Kubiak cheated him out of a better season by forcing that shit down his throat after he played in essentially the same offense for the first 16 of his 17 year Hall of Fame career.
Chip Kelly is not the type of coach to sit a quarterback his rookie year at all IMO. He's built his system to be easy for the quarterbacks to make reads only having to progress from option #1 to #2 on half the field. It's not a heavy progression offense. I think Kelly is going to be successful in San Fran if Trent Baalke doesn't fuck the roster up like Chip did in Philly.
They had enough money to offer Osweiler $15 million or so, and they've lost so many other guys including perhaps CJ Anderson.
They reportedly offered him 3 for $30 million no? Kaepernick is due $15 million and change next year, while Denver has the 2nd lowest cap space in the league at $8.7 million with Von Miller waiting for his richest defensive contract ever.
Tell me the League isn't crazy throwing good money after bad players eg Tannenhill millions or player with extremely low sample size eg Ostweiller 74 million and he played SEVEN GAMES? Looks like Elway and Mac are the only 2 GMs with brains in their head
Kaepernick now saying he wants to join the Browns in a desperate attempt to get a bidding war going. This is almost as weird as the Asomugha day from a few years ago.
the beginning of the free agency period is the best for crazy shit. the Aso saga was fun. I also remember when John Lynch was baptizing Herm's kid and it was all but assured that meant he was going to be the Jets new safety. Or when Antoine Winfield was walking around Jets HQ in his new uniform and discussing property in the area. The internet and free agency go great together
is Elway mailing it in? he won his 1 superbowl and it seems like the wheels are quickly falling off. I had no confidence that they would be a repeat contender but their offseason screams hey we won now we need to rebuild like were the florida marlins.
someone just told me they will have 9 starters from last years team that will not be there this year. that's marlinesque
At this point if you told me we could load up and win one SB in 2016 but the cost is we'd totally dismantle the team in 2017 and be bad for another 45 years--I'd be ok with it. _
no way. id much prefer to be good and be in the running 2/3rds of the time and get one in a few years. i dont need to win now, i just need to have a team put together to win.
The cap dictates the personal more than the GM in many cases. Hard to lose good players, but hard to keep them too. Save up, rebuild and go again.
As for Elway, unless you have the good luck to have a minimal number of starters who can go FA after an SB win, that win will elevate their value in the open market, and it will be very hard to bring back a high percentage of your starters. It's just the way it works.
