NE after QB McCarron? EDIT: Signed w BUF

[long distance]

This is the second “report“ . not Rap or Shefty . but something to watch..

As i said in the FA thread . not a surprise from Pats side . it would be surprising from McCarron's side after he fought legally CIN to free hiself from backup position..

 

[Love The Drake]

I'd rather draft Lauletta or White

 

[long distance]

I'd rather draft Lauletta or White

They CAN still draft a QB they want. But if they sign McCarron they don't HAVE TO. Minimizing risk is the name of the game at QB. You don't want the LT situation happening here..

 

[Love The Drake]

What about Hoyer?
Would Mccaron and a rookie supplant Hoyer?
We are not keeping 4 QBs

 

[luuked]

What about Hoyer?
Would Mccaron and a rookie supplant Hoyer?
We are not keeping 4 QBs

Hoyer is gone if McCarron is signed. Whats the point of keeping him ?

 

[Uptown]

You mean Raymond?

 

[primetime]

 

[Sciz]

This is totally just the Patriots helping to convince the Bills to overpay him, right? ....Right?

 

[IllegalContact]

What about Hoyer?
Would Mccaron and a rookie supplant Hoyer?
We are not keeping 4 QBs

Hoyer sucks

 

[TBR]

This would confirm Belichick's senility for me. Spending millions of dollars on a clipboard holder would be a big f*ck you to Brady and his last few years.

 

[Kontradiction]

Why?

 

[primetime]

The guy came into the league as a 5th round pick because he has a weak arm, inability to recognize the blitz, and inconsistent accuracy. He had never had to carry a college offense on his own and had played with a lead with almost every single snap he took in college. He was compared to Matt Cassel as a best-case scenario. Since he's entered the league, he's done very little to shake those comparisons.

When Dalton got hurt in 2015, McCarron was efficient but unspectacular in 5 games, but the Bengals' offense got slowed to a crawl compared to where it was with Dalton. He couldn't put them over the top against a frankly inferior Steelers team in the playoffs. He's done nothing since.

I don't see what he provides as a backup over Brian Hoyer, so unless the latter is planning to retire this doesn't make any sense to me. McCarron's the latest in the series of later-round quarterbacks who end up hyped to the moon without any sort of real world evidence that says they're any better than they were when teams passed on them 4 or 5 times several years ago. This isn't Jimmy Garoppolo sitting behind Brady and impressing every time he saw the field; this is a guy sitting behind Andy Dalton and looking fine at best the only chance he got.

Frankly, the only way this makes sense, and those words are doing a lot of work, is if they're trying to deny him to the Bills as a caretaker for whatever rookie they end up with (or trying to drive up the price), but it's going to be a stupidly expensive gambit if it works. Would you rather have Dion Lewis or AJ McCarron?

 

[nabwong]

What about Hoyer?
Would Mccaron and a rookie supplant Hoyer?
We are not keeping 4 QBs

Yeah. Why would we? We have absolutely no track record of this.

 

[Jimke]

Brady says that he will let his family decide things for him. With the recent
information about former Patriots with CTE, maybe they have decided one
more season and then out. McCarron would bench sit one year and then start
next year. Hoyer would remain because he knows the system and be McCarron's
backup next year.

 

[PWRxWLF]

Why would you let impact players go. Guys that will actually help your team win football games, to save money, just to turn around and spend that money on a guy that couldn’t push Andy Dalton out the door? Had to have been some low ball offer to gauge his market, yeah?

 

[PWRxWLF]

Brady says that he will let his family decide things for him. With the recent
information about former Patriots with CTE, maybe they have decided one
more season and then out. McCarron would bench sit one year and then start
next year. Hoyer would remain because he knows the system and be McCarron's
backup next year.

Go get a couple of cups of coffee, and add some bailey’s. It’ll ease the nerves a bit.

 

[Love The Drake]

Yeah. Why would we? We have absolutely no track record of this.

That was special circumstances

 

[Ring 6]

Brady says that he will let his family decide things for him. With the recent
information about former Patriots with CTE, maybe they have decided one
more season and then out. McCarron would bench sit one year and then start
next year. Hoyer would remain because he knows the system and be McCarron's
backup next year.

When did brady say he ceded the decision to his family?

 

[Greg]

A note on Hoyer. From what I have found online. We will actually lose just under 600k In caproom if we cut him. So he isn’t going anywhere.

 

[IcyPatriot]

Grabbing a QB on a 1 or 2 year deal makes sense.

I believe Belichick is trading out of the 1st round this year to gain a 1st round future pick to use on a QB.