Presumably? There you go again making stuff up to support your obsessive hatred for John Skelton.
Who would want a player who didn't feel like he should be a starter in the NFL? You and nobody else I imagine. That he was actually claimed by a 2012 playoff team, not cleared and signed but claimed off waivers, makes your entire attack on him bogus. Nevermind that your original assertion that Skelton shopped himself around the NFL for 2 days and then settled for a backup job with the Bengals when he couldn't find a team willing to give him a shot at being #1 was totally false. He was claimed off the waiver wire and had no choice as to where he would go.
As for Whisenhunt his impressions of players got him fired. So he's a poor example. I'm withholding judgement on Arians as well since he first brought in Drew Stanton to be the Cardinals starting QB.
I didn't say he shopped himself around the league for 2 days I said in 2 days he found out what the actual opinion of him was in the NFL when nobody wanted to even let him audition as a starter and he got signed by a team who very clearly said he's competing to be our backup. I jokingly said if he strongly believes he should be starting he should ask to be traded or released again so he can find a team that agrees with him.
I mean even Kolb had 3 teams interested in him who all wanted him to compete for the starting job.With all his injuries and poor play there were 3 NFL teams who actually considered him good enough to consider, not a single NFL team felt that way about Skelton. Claiming players off waivers goes in reverse order so if you are claimed by a playoff team, it means ALL the non playoff teams either chose not to claim you, or had just claimed someone else. Most of the the teams looking for QB's were non playoff teams, and none of them claimed Skelton.
In other words in 2 days John Skelton found out that nobody in the NFL agreed with his take that he was deserving of being the starter and that there were some personal issues in Arizona that led to him losing his job.
Teams try to trade players all the time before cutting them. If you look at the timing we essentially cut Skelton the same time we signed Hoyer to a one year deal and the same time rumors were rampant we were going to trade for Palmer. My guess is the entire NFL knew it was a matter of time for us to cut Skelton so if they did have any interest, they didn't need to trade for him. But there had been reports that both Skelton and Hoyer were available for trade, in particular Hoyer as it was fairly clear the Cards believed he was marketable.
I've said several times in this thread Whiz got fired for the way he handled the QB's, that doesn't mean he wasn't right about Skelton. Arians agreed he didn't want Skelton and the only NFL team that did, sees him as competition for Josh Johnson as a backup.
none of that is "made up."
I don't hate John Skelton but I do find it funny that people are somehow baffled the Cards kept Lindley of the guys on last years roster, he was the lowest paid, had the least amount of playing time, and thus was the one guy the team had not seen enough to have a firm opinion of. The others the firm opinion was, not good enough.
If Lindley is actually playing next year we're in trouble, but when the only real opening on the roster was #3 it was pretty obvious Lindley was the most likely returning guy to be kept. It was just as obvious Skelton wouldn't be back.