Kelly the Dog

It's weirder than Billy Bob Thorton marrying Angelina Jolie at her hottest.

Depends on your definition of short term. He's probably on a one year trial basis (not contract). If at the end of the year the team in consultation with Josh thinks it was very helpful he probably gets another year. if they don't, AND a decent veteran backup is available who is willing to play behind a young starter then they sign that guy in FA on the cheap.

Well, you should.

Totally agree. I fear that he is going to keep three after Anderson is ready. When we need help in several areas.

The only one that makes any real sense is sadomasochism.

And it's still a 10% chance. I would bet each of the guys that drafted all of the above players would admit "we liked the guy a lot, but liked several others, too, and running backs are a crapshoot. We were lucky this time."

He was on board for sure. But what was the other option, Geno? Buddy Nix was not going to leave the job without drafting the future franchise QB of the team, and it was his call on EJ. Granted, he had crappy choices. But he wasn't leaving without drafting a guy and that was his guy. Whaley's too, but it was Nix's call.

This thread is hopefully only for the discussion of its title. I am going to assume, not matter what we hear out of McD's mouth, that he and Beane are going to waive Nate in a week or two and then sign him to the PS. I understand waiting a week or more to get Anderson up to speed on the offense but I wouldn't do it myself. Nor would I sign him to the PS but that's a different topic. Keeping three QBs, when Peterman is one of them makes zero sense to me, and hopefully you. There is no way a team is going to pick up Peterman up and place them on their 53. If we want him on our PS to run the scout team and whatever other twisted reason for the bromance we can have him. There is also no way that we are going to have three QBs active on gameday. Zero. So either Nate or Derek will be in civvies and not eligible. If they somehow come to the unimaginable conclusion that Nate is going to be that guy, and Anderson will be ineligible, why wouldn't you just hire a smarter recently retired or unsigned ex-NFL QB as an assistant QB coach for half the money and have him stand on the sidelines with Josh, parceling out his morsels of wisdom instead of Anderson? If Josh gets hurt and Nate is forced into the game we can all pretty much change the channel or leave the sports bar or stadium. If he is going to be inactive, why the hell have him on the 53-man roster when you could put another WR or S or CB or ST guy on there? It makes no sense. The only reason to keep three QBs active in today's NFL, especially with the new PS rules, is because you have a potential stud young guy as a #3 and you would lose him if he is waived. We don't.

Low round picks, sure. I was just thinking about guys drafted in the third round. The only reason I didn't say 50 in the last several years was there hasn't been 50.

There are also about ten Dri Archers and Tre Masons for every Hunt and Kamara.

This is somewhat of an easy negotiation for Beane. You just decide what is the minimum you want for a guy you don't have to or want to trade. Not the same thing as what you are asking for or any report from anyone anywhere. Just what you feel you want for him. If they reach that threshold you do it. If they don't you don't. The only negotiating should be if a team like the Eagles may be willing to offer you more than what you wanted, then you may raise it a little, at least in the negotiations.

You mean except that he's consistently doing as good or better than QBs you are putting in the top five that played in the exact same era?

Yep

I would imagine, or bet, that even though the NFL is very unlikely to do anything about it, like a 90% chance they won't, the Shady allegations would lower his trade value. The other team would surely bring that up, and say, sure we don't think he did it or we wouldn't trade for him, and we don't think the league will do anything, but it's still out there and a possibility.

Read: "Like usual, I threw schitt at the wall yesterday, and also like usual it bounced back and is just about to hit me in the head."

I never got past “Good point by Tasker...”

The Super Bowl window is very small for any team not in New England. If the Eagles believe a guy like McCoy could get them back there, which they might regardless of its veracity, they will overpay, and maybe by a lot. That doesn’t mean they believe McCoy is the missing link but it’s possible. Nfl trades, for some reason, are very often not for what a player is really worth. It’s often for way more or way less.

I was joking of course. And it was Buddy Nix who (I agree with you) drafted EJ. There is nothing to make you know Whaley would have drafted either of those guys. Nor is Josh all that inaccurate, all things considered.

What have they shown to make you believe they know a lot about good nfl offenses?

I just posted in the other thread that Whaley’s genius drafting of EJ just keeps paying huge dividends for the franchise.

Whaley's brilliant drafting of EJ just keeps paying yuge dividends for this team. Will go down as one of the best picks ever.

Keep him away from Peterman at all costs!!!

He actually had more drops than incompletions.

That's not how Travis Henry did it.

Yep. It's like baseball. You get 3,000 hits and it's incredible. And then you have to have six more full seasons of 200 hits to get to Pete Rose and hardly anyone gets 200 hits in a season.