Free Agent QBs

[BirdBrawn]

Need more than secondary help

O line is old in places and another real WR would be nice.

[Dim Bulb]

The Eagles pass rush

O line is old in places and another real WR would be nice.

in the last game and in the Cowboys game was a solid "1 1/2" on a scale of 1-10.

[slag]

Legit speed guy to "take the top" off the defense would be nice.

Then some help in the "second level" in case Ryans is done.

Of course some people who "high point" the ball to make plays in the secondary would be good.

I can school motherfuckers on football all day long.

[AnnapolisEagle]

Sure, I'd take two Lombardis, but little else about him is good enough. At his best he's been a better than average starter. Most of his time has been spent at a lesser level.

I think Foles had a bad shoulder almost from the start of the season. I'll give him a mulligan for that. I also think we would have won the division if he could have finished the season instead of Sanchez. That being said, I consider him a long shot to be a real top notch QB in either the traditional or modern mode. He either needs an extraordinary team around him or lightning in a bottle. If we're going to build around him we have to do a tremendous job of filling the holes in this roster.

If Foles ends up Eli level, it's enough to win titles. He's probably not going to be Peyton-Brady-Rodgers elite, but I think he's a guy who can win a Super Bowl. A quest for a truly elite QB could be an exercise in futility.

Get some players in the secondary, a little help on the OL and another receiver (or maybe just start Matthews over Cooper) and this team can win a title.

If Mariota somehow falls into your lap, sure, pull the trigger. But even a top-five pick on a QB is no guarantee of anything.

Foles isn't obviously the answer. And Kelly shouldn't shy from making him compete with whatever mid-round picks or reclamation projects he takes on. I was hoping this season would make Foles' abilities more clear, but he got hurt just as the OL was getting together.

Sanchez is the master of the dagger turnover but otherwise played about as well as Foles, whose run game was much worse off. Shady averaged like 3.9/carry in the first 8 games and 4.6/carry in the last 8. Give Foles that production in the first half of the season and he looks a lot stronger.

[Joegrane]

At the risk of taking shit ... this reminds me of what Eli Manning was doing early in his career.

He was just about run out of town with the same exact complaints they have about Foles ... even early in the year they won the first Super Bowl with him.

Throws too many INT's ... bad footwork ... throws off his back foot.

I live up here ... I know for a fact that it was being written in the paper and talked about by the fans.

But the one thing they kept saying was that he throws a good deep ball (not something Foles does quite as well, but way better than Sanchez) ... and the most important was that he thrived at the end of a close game.

When a qb steps it up at the end of close games, that's what wins the locker room ... that's what you want in a quarterback.

Sanchez is the opposite ... Foles does it.

Does it mean he's a franchise guy?

Can't tell yet, but all this bullshit about he's a lock bust is fucking stupid when he's barely started a full year and particularly when he has shown that intangible in close games late.

I agree with you.

Also when you get beat up like Foles did in the first Skins game and pops up, your going to gain respect in the locker room.

Your future Hall of Fame O lineman is not going to get into a fight to defend a QB he does not respect especially since he knows he is going to get kicked out of the game.

Short of some miracle, Foles will be the starter. The remaining question is about backups.

Will someone give Sanchez borderline starter $ and make it tough for the Eagles to match?

Will Chip be enamored of someone else like Jake Locker thinking he can perform a rehabilitation miracle?

That is what Andy did with Vick; however, wasn't Vick the #3 QB during the first year here?

It would be risky for the Eagles to bring in a project such as Locker as the #2 on a likely playoff contending team. However, Sanchez was viewed as a project coming off injury--including mental injury after playing for the Jets.

Btw, Vick is also a FA and knows the offense!

[Loki]

Loves him some big knockers

[Loki]

Blow