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“THE QB-DERBY”
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We’re in the middle of the NFL Combines in Indianapolis, where the search for your next QB plays out.

Love me-Love me not.  They try to figure out Cam Ward-Miami-vs-Shedeur Sanders-Colorado.  Where does Jaxon Dart-Ole Miss suddenly fit in?

But this off season is much more than just the hot college QB and who might be the next Jayden Daniels-who reinvigorated the Washington Commanders or what is the real upside of the Bears’ Caleb Williams, or is Anthony Richardson a Colts bust in Indianapolis.

There are so many other dominoes to fall around the NFL.

RAMS:  Does Matthew Stafford stay and at what price?  Can the Rams pay him (50M) a year and for how many years?  If you trade him away, who replaces him?

RAIDERS:  Searching for a better situation, does trading a 3rd round pick for a multi year rental of Stafford makes sense?  Is Aaron Rodgers any better?

JETS…About to rid themselves of age, Aaron Rodgers, and attitude Davonte Adams, who and where is the next QB?

VIKINGS….That was some season, bounceback season, save your career season Sam Darnold had.   Good enough to tie up alot of Minnesota money to keep him?  How far away is the injured JJ McCarthy?  And where is the next stop for Daniel Jones, the ex-Giant, trying to resurrect his career?

BROWNS..They must restructure Deshaun Watson’s albatross of a contract, but who do you replace him with?  Dorian Thompson-Robinson?  Bring back Jameis Winston and all his turnovers?

GIANTS:  If you have a solution, call me, better yet call them.  That is a pretty dark offensive hole they have on that roster, and who knows how to fix it?  They don’t.

ATLANTA:  Kirk Cousins gives way to Michael Penix so Cousins becomes a short term-minimum investment some place else, but where?

STEELERS:  Experience in Russell Wilson.  Upside in the young athletic Justin Fields.  Both were rentals last season.  One stays,one must go.

SAINTS:  Derek Carr and his big money contract stay, so backup Taysom Hill leaves, but he has never been a starter anywhere.

COLTS: They admit they are looking for someone to compete with 2-year disappointment Anthony Richardson, though not saying he is a failure.  But he has not won

CAROLINA:  They believe in second chances, so Bryce Young, coming off a decent back half of the season, comes back in his third year to start again, but they still need a better team around him.

TENNESSEE:  Will Levis, a strong first season, but a really bad second season, and with the top pick in the draft, a chance to take a QB, but no, they are willing to trade back or take somebody else to start the draft.  Does not make alot of sense.

DALLAS:  They are putting a young QB out there.  Might be backup Cooper Rush or 3rd stringer Trey Lance, who needs another chance.

49ERS:  Jimmy Garoppolo has been thru good and bad times, and needs a change of address, but will anyone give him a chance.  Been awhile since he was a hot prospect stuck in New England.

So there you are.  12-teams with signficiant QB problems.  A potential pile of guys who could move, but each with issues that does not guarantee you win much if they are your guy.  Very few solutions out there among the veterans, and how many hot prospects at the NFL combine?

Take a Tylenol and call me in the morning with a solution.

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