Josh Freeman vs 1st Round Rookie

[SissyBoyFloyd]

We could have Freeman for free to compete with Palmer next year, giving him a year to work under our new coaching staff, and still have our 1st round pick to improve our team elsewhere. Keep in mind that picking him up now for 2013 wouldn't prevent us from cutting him and going the rookie draft route.

or

We could grab the best available QB to sit and learn a year, and then throw him into the fire as we have so many qbs before him.


I am not so sure the Freeman isn't better than Palmer right now. Would like to see our coach examine him more closely in cardinal camp.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Pass, IMHO.

 

[PACardsFan]

No thanks, I'd pass.

 

[Shane]

Pass

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Pass. Hard to look past attitude problems in a QB, and he's already had enough time to try and figure it out.

 

[juza76]

have u any idea whom of the next qb prospects should fit in arians scheme

 

[ajcardfan]

Um... no.

 

[JeffGollin]

Pass. Hard to look past attitude problems in a QB, and he's already had enough time to try and figure it out.

+1.

 

[ajcardfan]

This is going to be a terrific draft for QBs. IMO, if Keim doesn't take a QB in rd 1 or 2 in this draft, he needs to go IMO

 

[JeffGollin]

This is going to be a terrific draft for QBs. IMO, if Keim doesn't take a QB in rd 1 or 2 in this draft, he needs to go IMO

Sounds logical, but permit me to incite a small riot:

Suppose it turns out that Sowell isn't the answer and we go into the next draft still without a decent LT. Further, let's suppose that there's a shortage of LT's available on the open market but there are 2 or 3 Joe Thomas types available in the Top tier of the draft.

What should you do? Leap on the primo QB? Or nail down the LT spot.

(I raise this because nothing in the NFL is "certain" or all that simple when you are evaluating human beings and predicting how they'll do in future years).

 

[Cheesebeef]

Sounds logical, but permit me to incite a small riot:

Suppose it turns out that Sowell isn't the answer and we go into the next draft still without a decent LT. Further, let's suppose that there's a shortage of LT's available on the open market but there are 2 or 3 Joe Thomas types available in the Top tier of the draft.

What should you do? Leap on the primo QB? Or nail down the LT spot.

(I raise this because nothing in the NFL is "certain" or all that simple when you are evaluating human beings and predicting how they'll do in future years).

if you have a team without a franchise QB in the NFL and you have a choice in the draft to take a primo QB or a primo LT, it's not even debatable to me. you take the QB.

 

[Finito]

You can have the prettiest house on the block but if the foundation is cracked it's worthless. Brady, Manning all the other really elite QBs what do they have in common? They never get touched. Time to throw can make and average QB good and a good QB great. Big Ben and Eli two elite QBs and two guys who have rings are struggling badly this year because there running for there lives or on there back most of the time. Hell the steelers are so desperate they traded for Levi brown what does that tell you. We've seen guys like David Carr a big time prospect almost get killed out there next thing you know he's hearing footsteps even where there's time. You killed his confidence.

I think you draft the big time LT

 

[crisper57]

if you have a team without a franchise QB in the NFL and you have a choice in the draft to take a primo QB or a primo LT, it's not even debatable to me. you take the QB.

Then he gets hurt and does all his contributing with a clipboard.

Need both equally, but at least we have a stopgap in CP and a quality backup QB. Still, without a true franchise QB, a team doesn't go very far. I don't think it is an easy call.

 

[Shane]

Then he gets hurt and does all his contributing with a clipboard.

Need both equally, but at least we have a stopgap in CP and a quality backup QB. Still, without a true franchise QB, a team doesn't go very far. I don't think it is an easy call.

Any proof to back up the assertion I bolded?

 

[HoodieBets]

Not to stir the pot but Freeman has the atributes BA likes like a big arm and mobile. If we can sign freeman on the cheap in the offseason and draft a legit LT I would rather do that than a manziel and sowell combo. We wont have a bad enough record to get one of the top four QB in the draft.

 

[PitchShifter]

Interesting stat Somers raised:

Of the 32 starters [at LT], 17 were first-round picks, eight were selected in the second round and five others in Rounds 3-7.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/car...evi-brown-trade-more-for-future-than-for.html

QB, LT and edge rusher...we'll have 1st round options, but hard to fix those positions in one draft.

 

[schutd]

Seems to me that when the going gets tough, he starts causing problems. Pass.