Signing(s): Nick Foles with the Jaguars (4 years, $88 million)

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[Blackhawkswincup]

Good for Jags and Foles

 

[John Price]

Not really a surprise

 

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[EpochLink]

Got paid $$$$

 

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[Reality Check]

The only other option was trade for Joe Flacco or draft a QB high and pray it works.

Bringing back Bortles would have started a riot.

 

[Tuggy]

Jesus f***ing christ.

A lot of $$$$

 

[Voight]

I'm guessing its structured as a 2 year deal in the event he sucks and isn't that great?

Thats a ton of money for a team that was bidding against themselves.

 

[Canes]

Maybe Bortles can finally go work construction while ripping cigs, and play in the XFL/AAFL in his spare time.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

*sighs*

I hope it works, I'm just not that confident. Like someone else said, feels like a ton of money considering we were essentially bidding against ourselves.

Oh well, at the very least it should be an upgrade on Blake Bortles. Better kill it on the draft in upgrading....well basically everything on offense.

 

[Newsworthy]

Nice. I really like Foles.

 

[Avs_19]

Should've signed Teddy for like $40M less in guarantees.

 

[rangerssharks414]

*sighs*

I hope it works, I'm just not that confident. Like someone else said, feels like a ton of money considering we were essentially bidding against ourselves.

Oh well, at the very least it should be an upgrade on Blake Bortles. Better kill it on the draft in upgrading....well basically everything on offense.

I'm scared.

Should've signed Teddy for like $40M less in guarantees.

I know it's easy to say now, but if you guys knew people that I knew IRL, they would tell you that I wanted the Jags to draft Mack that year and trade up into the back of the first for Teddy.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

I'm scared.

I'm not totally writing it off immediately because whatever he is has to be better than Bortles. Plus, he'll have the same OC that he did for the best part of his success in Philly, but yeah not great lol.

 

[rangerssharks414]

I'm not totally writing it off immediately because whatever he is has to be better than Bortles. Plus, he'll have the same OC that he did for the best part of his success in Philly, but yeah not great lol.

Oh, I think it's an upgrade for sure. I just think it's way too much money even though he may have gotten close to the same somewhere else.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

Oh, I think it's an upgrade for sure. I just think it's way too much money even though he may have gotten close to the same somewhere else.

I don't see where else he gets that from honestly. Once Denver traded for Flacco, this seemed inevitable.

 

[rangerssharks414]

I don't see where else he gets that from honestly. Once Denver traded for Flacco, this seemed inevitable.

Miami or the Giants maybe

 

[Reality Check]

Maybe Bortles can finally go work construction while ripping cigs, and play in the XFL/AAFL in his spare time.

Bortles still has another 5-10 years as a backup/fringe starter in the NFL to go.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Should've signed Teddy for like $40M less in guarantees.

So sign a QB that isn't as good and may not be upgrade over Bortles?

Jags made right call here and should be better team with Foles at helm

 

[Canes]

Bortles still has another 5-10 years as a backup/fringe starter in the NFL to go.

I was mostly joking, but I don't know about another 5-10 years. Maybe 5, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. I think he'll be a lot like Mark Sanchez in this regard. A 2nd/3rd string QB for the next 2-3 seasons then maybe out of the league until a team needs an emergency QB. He's simply not that good, and doesn't seem to care about football too much.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Maybe Bortles can finally go work construction while ripping cigs, and play in the XFL/AAFL in his spare time.

haha f***ing perfect.

He looks like he should be chain smoking and downing monsters at a construction site or on an oil field.

 

[NewtJorden]

I'm kind of surprised that he got this much money.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

I was mostly joking, but I don't know about another 5-10 years. Maybe 5, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. I think he'll be a lot like Mark Sanchez in this regard. A 2nd/3rd string QB for the next 2-3 seasons then maybe out of the league until a team needs an emergency QB. He's simply not that good, and doesn't seem to care about football too much.

Grossman was god awful and hung around league for nearly a decade after his one year as Bears starting QB because of two things

1) Being a 1st round QB
2) Having "Playoff experience"

Bortles will linger around league for a lot longer then you think

Hell EJ Manuel just signed with Chiefs today and that guy was garbage and busted years ago

 

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