Rumor Rivers retires...here comes Wentz

Calm down... it hasn’t happened yet and it will take a lot to make it happen. It would take up half of Indys cap space and they have a lot of key spots to fill. But let’s be clear.. it’s Matt Stafford, not Aaron Rodgers. Let’s not freak out. Can Stafford have a better year than Rivers had? Seriously... they had extremely similar years. Indy doesn’t get alot better. They just kind of stay the same. Meh! We just get average on defense and the division is still ours.

 

Word on the Street is Detroit looking for a 1st for Stafford.

 

I'm sorry, stafford >> rivers. Put rivers on the lions last year and watch him flounder. Stafford would cost them $9.5m of an available 58m... 16% is not quite 50%

 

This, is usually where ratings go side-ways. Scouts watch players for two sometimes 3 years and assign their grades, then the combine rolls around and somebody runs faster than they think, and the player rating artificially skyrockets. The tiers these guys are in right now should be valid. Scouts should have seen enough to know how they break down. Should, mind you.

 

Agree.

 

The problem is that they still have enough cap space to fill all their needs. Especially with the covid fueled shrink in FA salaries this upcoming year. JR has screwed us with the salary cap and our luck is Colts and Jags have top available cap space this upcoming year. Not to mention the crap draft he had last year.

 

The cap is fixable. A few restructures and we are back in the hunt again.

 

I know that’s your option but the stats don’t show that. I think River is a much smarter QB. Great QBs lift up there team. Stafford has great skills but isn’t very smart. Rivers arm was shot and he threw for more yards than Stafford. Stafford threw a lot because the Lions were behind a lot. I don’t see Stafford as that much better. Again... it’s our opinion. Rivers is most assuredly the smarter QB.

Stafford Cap hit is $33 Million, which is where I got my 50% number. However I dig deeper and found his Cap hit is actually $20 million for a team trading for him in 2021 with the Lions having to pay $13 million which is still cheap.

But I see the Stafford ending up in New England or San Fran before the Colts. There will be a bidding war.

 

You never judge a draft until year 3. I get your point if you are talking about Wilson but chill, the rest of the draft looks promising, JRob didn’t screw anybody. When you have a team of really good players and you are winning you have cap issues. That’s JROBs job to figure it all out, The Jags and Colts have a lot of cap space because they sucked. We will be fine and sign who we need to sign and restructure who we need to restructure.

 

Id prefer Jones over Hilton tbh..but either aren't great but Jones could be a decent #2 with Brown and Tannehill