Dagg

If your a pats fan and you dont think this is a good consideration your a blind koolaid drinking fanboi.

Please dont put all our eggs this season in Cassells basket.

JAYHAWKS34

This would be a great pick up for us

LloydBraun

TB nearly traded for Favre and they wouldn't give Garcia an extension, thus the tension.

Garcia comes here, wants to win. He wins as the starter, Brady returns. Garcia makes a mint as a free agent.

patsfaninpittsburgh

The guy is like 40 years old. He doesn't have much left for FA contracts.

Besides, he has had success in "West Coast Offenses". Talk about a "system" guy.

I see him running around driving Randy Moss nuts.

PAPatsjunkie

Living in PA and watching what Garcia did in 06 to energize an Eagles team that were considered dead, I am totally in favor of bringing him in. He doesn't try to do too much, and he plays with passion, definitely a team leader.

ClevTrev

Understand your point, however, the assumption is that Garcia can come in here, toe the line, win, and doesn't cause deterioration of team chemistry.

The key question is whether he can pick up the playbook in time and actually perform better than Cassel. Otherwise, you're simply hiring him as a backup (and probably an expensive one).

These discussions are remarkably similar to when Brady replaced Bledsoe. The only difference was that Bledsoe was not IR'd and was due back that season.

There's a reason Gruden wanted to replace Garcia. He was willing to take a Bret Favre who is not the QB he used to be. Garcia has had problems with being a leader, and Favre hasn't. That's the quality Gruden was trying to acquire. Do we want to bring that problem to New England?

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billdog3484

wow garcia would be an amazing pickup. he did great for the eagles when mcnabb went down

MoLewisrocks

That's about where I'm at too. If Garcia weren't so injury prone and a dick to boot it would be a good fit. But he is what he is - in his entirety. He was of no use to Gruden down the stretch or in the playoffs last season and that team folded in the interim waiting for Jeffie to come back and right the old pirate ship. Didn't happen. He's been injured every other week since TC.

If Garcia were healthy and Simms been able to hold onto a roster spot I'd have gladly added a guy like Griese as a somewhat functional veteran presence. Heck Pennington if he'd been cut for Farve in week one... But Jeff has some baggage and serious chronic injury concerns that just keep mounting. He'd be a bigger distraction here than actual insurance against anything...

FWIW he "took" them to the playoffs with the worst record of any division winner because they play in a bad division. He missed the stretch run and was not remotely ready when the playoffs started. Then he threatened to holdout this season if they didn't give him a contract extension at 38... That's what he is now which is why Gruden was a lunatic for not figuring out he needed to fix the QB position in Tampa once and for all or even short term with Pennington and Farve on the market just over a month ago... Instead he kept an oft injured, overly emotional and selfishly ego motivated player who already can't help him in week 2.

Jeff probably could have helped the Iggles last season, he had no interest in doing that. He wanted to replace McNabb as a starter on the pre season depth chart and a commensurate contract or he'd that opportunity elsewhere. That's why they let him walk.

PatsFaninAZ

For those of you on the fence, I give you Mrs. Jeff Garcia. (Apparently, Terrell Owens was wrong about Jeff being gay.)

http://xoomer.alice.it/ginello/cdc/images/04-lrg.jpg

mcsully

I agreed u.. That is why I said I rather see Garcia then Simms or Rattay..