Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SI: The 50 highest-earning athletes
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‹ First < 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 > Last ›Considering the alternatives, yes. I'd take him over a lot of the other names out there. And while he didn't become great at it, Eagles clock management did improve once McNabb was gone, so it turns it wasn't entirely on Reid.
7th candidate. 5 OC and 2 ST.
Because Andy Reid is going to stick with Brady Quinn...
Cassel and Quinn are both about to gone. I have no idea who is going to be the QB in 2013, but the Chiefs have the #1 pick, tons of cap space, a great RB, and if Bowe comes back a pretty good WR.
KC could turn around quickly. When you get rid of the worst QB and worst HC in the league, you are bound to improve the team.
Michael Vick is available.
WOW, Someone with a TO rate that might be higher than the Chief's 2012 QB tandem.
By all indications, Matt Barkley, personality and intangibles wise is a great kid. Not a great arm though and not worth the number 1 pick, but I feel in a weak QB class, and despite his injuries, Barkley is still going top 5. He's basically the rich man version of Marc Sanchez, but at least you know he can start for you, and won't do the ######## that basically made Sanchez into a joke, on and off the field. Barkley's potential is that he can be what Alex Smith currently is, a 12-20 range QB.
It's a weak class for NFL draft QBs unless Aaron Murray decides to turn pro early.
*WTF? It's the 2nd hit on google, so why not I guess.
the chiefs strength is their running game, and that's almost irrelevant for an andy reid coached team. on the other hand, their weaknesses are on defense, where reid is not likely to give a damn, with turnovers, where the eagles were every bit as bad as the chiefs, and at quarterback, where reid might help, but his recent track record there is not exactly glowing (kolb, kafka, feeley have not exactly done a whole hell of a lot, despite getting the reid seal of approval).
arizona would have been an almost ideal situation for him. they have a very, very good defense, and a world class wide receiver, and even with as low an opinion as i have of reid, he could have basically put them on auto-pilot and still had a 50/50 chance of making the playoffs.
but the chiefs are just such a terrible team that i cannot imagine that reid will be able to turn them around.
The Chiefs haven't won a playoff game in 20 years, haven't drafted a QB in the 1st round in 30 years, and have never "earned" the #1 pick in the common draft era before. Of course this would be the year when they get to choose between Barkley, Smith, Murray, & Wilson. ####.
@1062, I was thinking in particular of a tweet from Tony Dungy suggesting Murray would be a first round selection.
In case you missed it, Romeo Crennel coached the chiefs in 2012. There is no way that anyone can paint a picture that Reid is a worse coach than Romeo.
Don't forget Mike Glennon.
That's still a bad QB.
It'll still be a weak class.
There isn't a QB this year I would take in the first round.
The Eagles were not a title contender at the beginning of the year. The people who thought that were naive.
Nah, the problem with Sanchez isn't his tools. I mean, sure he doesn't have great tools, but its good enough to be a starter in the league. Its the fact that he's a lazy ####### that's going to kick him out of the league. Barkley is going to work his ass off and going to want to get better.
Lots of guys work their ass off but stink. None of these QBs are worth a first rounder, let alone a top 5. It's a bad year to need a QB. We got spoiled last year with a HOF on the FA market and two can't miss prospects in the draft.
Except QBs in the draft are always 'over draft'. Guys who are legitimately 2nd or 3rd round picks based on talent get into the first round because of hype and 'need'. Tim Tebow's a good example, hell Marc Sanchez would be one too. QBs at the top of the market are going to go fast, that's just how it is.
If you want to do things like, say, piss off your star middle linebacker, that's fine, but you should have a plan B. The Steelers constantly lost star players to free agency, but always had a replacement in the system. If you want to piss off the fan base by not bringing back the most beloved player in team history, that's also fine, but then they passed up on the obvious draft pick to replace him, and lord, it felt like they did it just for the sake of being contrary.
In 2009:
Sometimes teams want to develop their own starters. Especially the Chiefs who haven't done it in two decades. This is a team that needs to develop its own QB.
i am fairly convinced that good coaching can turn a guy with a decent arm and an iq higher than a squash into a starting qb
if you're signing aaron brooks as an undrafted free agent, that's one thing. but if you're drafting him 12th overall, that's completely different.
i don't understand your post
sorry. i don't know if you are saying to not draft a qb in the first round or if you are saying somehting else
ty detmer
mark brunell
jay barker
kyle waccholtz
ron mcada
matt hasselbeck
aaron brooks
Reid's period of great success coincided with inheriting top notch defensive players and picking a top notch defensive coach. Once those players (Dawkins, Trotter, Vincent, Taylor, Douglas) phased out(and the Eagles got rid of Trotter and Dawkins too early), it's been downhill since.
Reid always had a bit of mad scientist about him -- going from the "Who needs talent at WR in a West Coast offense" to "Linebackers? We don't need to have any good linebackers." to the crazed last three years of Michael Vick, the three headed alpha DB scenario of 2011, Juan Castillo, wide 9, resurrecting Howard Mudd (which kind of worked in 2011), drafting an overage fireman for the 1st pick.
If you hire Coach Reid and keep him out of personnel decisions (good luck with that, Reid has a huge ego), it still might work. I'm not convinced that he wasn't more lucky than good during the first half of his tenure with the Eagles.
They are going to TRY but I think he has essentially zero trade value. Basically he's signed for 2013 for $8M which is eminently reasonable for a cromulent NFL starter, but WAY too much for a backup in the cap era. And they have are on the hook for his cap hit by March 1st. I think that deadline even includes a $1M bonus.
So the Niners have no leverage. Maybe they get a 6th or 7th round pick.
Of course. I never said otherwise. I am saying I wouldn't draft any of these QBs in the 1st. Other teams can have at them.
Wolf's philosophy was draft a QB every year, you will eventually hit on one or two and get value out of them as a solid backup and/or trade bait. And he did.
correct.
So the Niners have no leverage. Maybe they get a 6th or 7th round pick.
But he would start for 5-10 teams. As mentioned above, if KC could get him for a 6th rounder they should jump on that yesterday.
Which is why it baffled me when people flipped out about Shanahan drafting Cousins in the 4th. Clearly was a good idea.
Especially when the example they cited was the Redskins taking Shuler and Frerotte in the same draft, when they were damn glad they took Frerotte, at least until he concussed himself on the wall.
Reid had 5 absolute pillars together for 10 years: Jim Johnson, Brian Dawkins, Donovan McNabb, Tra Thomas and Jon Runyan. He hired Johnson, who I don't believe was a hot commodity at the time. He drafted McNabb, and was on board when they signed Runyan. Those are to his credit. He inherited Dawkins and Thomas, as well as other notable defensive players, as Edmundo mentioned. His drafts have been a mixture of good and bad. His free agent acquisitions have mostly gone south in the past several years. He built a core of very good coaches at the start.
It's just incredible to have that sort of stability at so many key positions. Reid has been utterly unable to replace most of those key people.
Reid has managed to run mostly good offenses, and he manages quite often to get by for a few games at a time with QBs of questionable talent, and he manages to swap them into second-round picks. That's a good thing, and can help an organization as bad as the Chiefs.
Those people were dumb. You need a backup in today's dangerous NFL. And on the third day, take the best player on your board, regardless of position.
I also agree with 1084 and 1092.
that post is very funny
Sounds like Charles is the typical Reid back in terms of usage and expected fantasy points.
it's a joke big fella. enjoy the joke
That's about the 4,000th "Poor Jamaal" statement/joke I've seen in the last 24 hours, since the Reid-to-KC news started breaking.
Reid is better than the likes of Jeff Fisher, though.
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