Apparently Sam Bradford's agent asked for $25mm a year
Great offseason for the iggles
Well, the QBs coach they just hired from Oakland turned Derek Carr into a great QB, so why don't they just let him walk and draft some guy and let the new bro work his magic again?
ETA: You probably franchise Bradford to avoid paying him too much/him walking, and keep him around for a year while you get your guy in.
Stick to your guns. If you're gonna denounce "townie" in one of your "here's why I'm better than you" memes, ya should stay off my dick.
Why would you franchise Sam Bradford for $19 million ?
It's unappealing but trying to find a QB in free agency doesn't look too hot either. Bradford looked pretty good in the 2nd half of the season. But I wouldn't worry as much about the QB situation as OL and WRs. Bradford is good enough, but you could probably find a guy off the scrap heap and make it work in Philly. Maybe a head coach who doesn't think he's the hottest shit alive would recognize that running plays under center with Murray might work too.
Bradford sucks, you can find someone to put up the same numbers for $5mm a year
But if you think you can find someone off the scrap heap who's good enough to make it work you might as well sign Bradford for his market value for three years instead of overpaying him for one when you ned OLs and WR NOW, because Ron Jaworski's not walking through that door. Donovan McNabb's not walking through that door. Hell, Joe Psarcik's not walking through that door.
It's kinda tough to judge. His WR1, Jordan Matthews, dropped a fuckload of passes this year. And after that, he had Huff, Cooper, Agholor, Ertz, and Celek. Woof.
well most people are suggesting his "market value" is $18MM right now, so that's not too much different than franchising him
and the idea with franchising him is that you aren't tied to him for more than a year - the only threat there is the threat of success - if he's too good, his market value goes up
Good quarterbacks make that shit work.
Bradford is a bottom third quarterback and the numbers bear that out. You don't franchise a bottom third player. Aside from that, there's probably somebody else more worthy of the franchise tag on the team.
It's unappealing but trying to find a QB in free agency doesn't look too hot either. Bradford looked pretty good in the 2nd half of the season. But I wouldn't worry as much about the QB situation as OL and WRs. Bradford is good enough, but you could probably find a guy off the scrap heap and make it work in Philly. Maybe a head coach who doesn't think he's the hottest shit alive would recognize that running plays under center with Murray might work too.
bad qb, weak OL, GOLD!
It's just dumb to argue he has been given a golden opportunity when he isn't on a pass first team with a good QB or OL.