If I am Denver I am going hard after Fitzpatrick and it's not close

[Dmeade-]

I keep hearing pundits pushing Kaepernick to the Broncos since  Brock signed with the Texans. They can win the SB with Fitz. He outplayed both Manning and Osweiler last year by a long shot. 

[Starkiller]

Fitz is clearly asking for way too much money after 1 good season. 

But if Denver had to choose between him and trading for Kaepernick, they should probably try to get Fitz.

[scine09]

Yeah they should have signed him the moment Osweiler went to Houston.  He outplayed Manning badly last season.  There's no reason to think they can't win with Fitzpatrick.

[TitanDuckFan]

18 minutes ago, Dmeade- said:

I keep hearing pundits pushing Kaepernick to the Broncos since  Brock signed with the Texans. They can win the SB with Fitz. He outplayed both Manning and Osweiler last year by a long shot. 

Schefter reportedly says Kaep really respects Hue and would like to play for the Browns.  For us, I think it's best he go to Denver, just in case draft picks are involved with the CLE trade.

I think Kelly and SF are more likely to trade up from 7 than they are from 2.

[Bulluck4dmvp]

We're talking about Super Bowl when the guy has never even led a team to the playoffs.

[MIKE75]

I think it's best Kaepernick goes to Denver that way S.F. is more likely to have ammo plus need a QB for trade to us for #1

 

[MIKE75]

I'm shocked more teams haven't tried to make a run at Fitzpatrick. FWIW he is definitely more suited for a team that has a great defense and run game like Houston in '14 and New York in '15 he led both to winning seasons but ironically even though Texans were 9-7 and Jets were 10-6 both teams fell short of postseason.

Fitz gets a lot of flack thrown his way but honestly the last couple years he has had similar stats to QB's that made five or six times greater income than him like Stafford,Cutler,etc.

The first five years of his career he didn't play much bouncing from the Rams,Bengals and then Bills. From 2005 through 2009 he threw 17TD and 19INT while trying to gain experience,improve and earn a starting job which he did in 2010.

From 2010-2015 Fitz did improve started the majority of every season throwing 133TD/89INT.

He averages out to twelve games a year 22TD and 14INT,3,000 yards,completing 61% of passes with a 88.0 pass rating.

[Tim]

Fitz always gets you beat when it counts. That Bills game last year was hilariously predictable. Same ole Fitz. 

[apocalypse33]

I'd rather take a shot with RG3. At least he has some upside. Fitzpatrick is who he is. 

[Btowner]

1 hour ago, Tim said:

Fitz always gets you beat when it counts. That Bills game last year was hilariously predictable. Same ole Fitz. 

Exactly. I will never understand how an intelligent in the classroom, but mistake prone game manager gets so much love from fans. If Fitzpatrick is your QB, you're not winning anything with him.

[Dmeade-]

7 minutes ago, Btowner said:

Exactly. I will never understand how an intelligent in the classroom, but mistake prone game manager gets so much love from fans. If Fitzpatrick is your QB, you're not winning anything with him.

If Denver can win the SB with the two QBs they paraded on the field last season (especially Manning), they can win if Fitz can play at 75% of what he did in 2015.

[Dmeade-]

35 minutes ago, apocalypse33 said:

I'd rather take a shot with RG3. At least he has some upside. Fitzpatrick is who he is. 

RG3 is an entitled bastard who would just be a cancer to the whole team.

[apocalypse33]

2 minutes ago, Dmeade- said:

RG3 is an entitled bastard who would just be a cancer to the whole team.

he'd also be cheaper and potentially a long term solution. Also, entitled bastard is a bit harsh 

[Dmeade-]

This is a good letter:

Dear 31 teams that haven't had Robert Griffin III on their roster and, for posterity's sake, Dan Snyder too, just in case,

You know what was good in 2012? Everybody doing "Call Me Maybe" sing-alongs. The San Francisco 49ers. Photobombing. "Homeland". The salad dressing I found last night in my pantry. Tiger Woods. (He won three tournaments!)

But it's now 2016 and no one is clamoring for, or likes, any of those things. You know why? Because being good four years ago has exactly no bearing on how good you are today.

Robert Griffin III was good in 2012, so why would you want him?

The end.

Or that should be the end, anyway. It won't be. Teams in desperate need of a quarterback in a market that pays a guy with three good games $18 million per year certainly will try to find a way to burn money on a guy who had eight good games a few years ago. (I mean, by the Brock Osweiler measure, RG3 should be getting Zuckerberg money solely on the measure of his first two drives against the Seahawks in the 2013 wild-card game. I could probably score $1.3 million based on my last Madden season alone.)

One of you will be stupid, though. One of you will think you can change him. One of you will believe that his talent and ego give him juuuuuust the amount of swag needed to come back from a season in which he was determined to be inferior to Colt McCoy, a quarterback who has, at various times in his career, been behind Jake Delhomme, Seneca Wallace, Brandon Weeden and Thad Lewis on a depth chart. You want him on that wall, you need him on that wall. 

That's what you'll tell yourself anyway. In truth, you do not. You do not need Robert Griffin III on your team as a starter, backup or anything else. Oh, he'll go somewhere and compete for a job and, given the infirmary unit that is the NFL, almost certainly will start a game or two this year. He might even win some. It might even get just seductive enough where you'll look down at your scrap heap of a QB depth chart and wonder why you didn't get RG3. He was in your grasp. You knew he had something left, dammit. And you let him slip through your fingers. 

Do not be fooled. The system in which Robert Griffin III thrived is a system the NFL has long since figured out. He might as well be running the single-wing. And do quarterbacks who have been ice cold for three years ever just flip the switch and turn into their better, younger selves, especially after having more procedures done to their body than Donatella Versace? 

Heck, do him the favor and don't sign him. Robert is a very nice man. But he's stubborn in terms of his football abilities and somehow still doesn't know how to slide. He's lost his speed. His fourth step is most people's first. Nobody wants to see him pound into the ground like fertilizer and turned into a Jimmy Hoffa for the new century. Save him from himself.

Look, we all know someone is going to pick him up and bully for them. But you shouldn't be fooled. Just because RG3 is going to have a roster spot in the NFL doesn't mean it needs to be on yours.

Resist the temptation. Let him be someone else's headache.

I love you.

— Chris

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/rg3-robert-griffin-iii-free-agency-rumors-texans-cowboys-eagles-broncos-49ers-031016

[Guest]

RGIII + Chip Kelly. Could we really be this lucky?