you could have said the same thing about a rehabbing Fitz last year.... in fact, Geno kind of did beat him out until the whole IK thing went down if you recall correctly
There was no real 'competition' last year, which was a major error in judgement as it turned out. Unless you believe Geno was getting 35 TD's and 10 INT's compared to Fitz's 31-15 ratio.
Geno is terrible and he would have sucked last year. my post was in response to the comment "hoyer wouldnt even beat out geno or petty". my point was, in the preseason fitz didnt beat out geno, bowles named geno the starter and geno played better in TC/PS. fitz wasnt some good QB coming in, and he didnt outplay geno, he got the spot on a technicality. i dont think hoyer is any worse then fitz coming in last year
Actually he was handed the job by TB going in, and stated it was 'Geno's job to lose'. Which Geno did. Hoyer would be a real downer at this point. Let's get Fitz in here and move on to what is hopefully a constructive draft, and another competitive season.
If the 9ers lose kaep I could see them going after Fitztragic. Rg3 already said he wants to play for the rams
That seems odd to me considering Jeff Fisher punked him a while back by sending out all the captains from the players the Rams got for RG3, but I guess beggars can't be choosers (re: RG3)
geno didnt lose the job, he outplayed fitz in TC/PS. IK knocked geno out of a job, literally. bring back fitz if he is willing to take 5-6 million. otherwise on to the next guy. fitz isnt good enough and our ceiling as team isnt high enough to justify a big long term deal
That's how he lost it. Fuck him. Fitz was coming off the broken leg and wasn't ready. That's why TB named Geno and said what he did. Just like he named Fitz the day after the season ended.
If Kaep is a goner I wouldn't be surprised if the 9ers sign Sanchez. Pretty sure Philly is cutting him if they haven't already.
you are missing my point. the argument against hoyer was that "can he even beat out geno" when last year you could have said the same about fitz.
That doesn't make sense. You don't know if they think any of the QB's could start right away as Fitz's replacement or if that QB would even be available to the Jets when they pick. The only way you could assume not signing Fitz equates to drafting a QB is if the Jets are going to start that rookie week 1. But you don't know if any of the QB's are capable of doing so. Otherwise there is nothing to indicate they aren't signing Fitz because they will draft his replacement. But not starting the 1st round QB immediately doesn't replace Fitz this season, and nobody is under the guise that Fitz is the long term QB for the team. You don't abandon the short term QB (Fitz) because you are drafting a long term project in the 1st round because you still need a third QB to start this season while that rookie learns. Nothing about letting Fitz walk even remotely intimates that QB is their first round target.
I know that. That's cool. I'm just saying that Geno didn't really beat out Fitz in a straight out competition. TB declared Geno to shut the media up. Fitz wasn't ready for that until well into camp. He was coming off a broken leg. Nobody knew for sure if he was gonna be okay even. No biggie
@MikeSilver While the Broncos try to close the Kaepernick trade, they're formulating backup plans. Have been in touch with agent for Ryan Fitzpatrick.
@richeisen So, in other words, talking with the agency that told Osweiler to stop talking to them? https://twitter.com/mikesilver/status/708071833283596288 …
And we're using the lack of serious interest to lower Fitz's asking price!! Agents win day 1; GMs win day 2/3?
