Updated: Discuss our Backup QB Situation (formerly Byron Leftwich)

[mvb2328]

Originally Posted by SC Skins Fan

Are you sure that wasn't 1/33rd?

lets count the teams whos starting qbs aren't as good as byron leftwich:
chicago
minnesota
detroit
kansas city
tampa bay
the jets(if favre isn't coming back)
carolina(maybe)
buffalo(maybe)

ok so that makes only 1/4 of teams but that is still a good amount!

[irish]

Why in the world would the Skins want BL? He's too old. The Skins have a huge hole at QB but BL just isnt the answer.

[SmootSmack]

It's been said a couple of times in past years that Leftwich would love to come home to the Redskins (I saw a link the other day somewhere as well)

But...I think the Lions or Vikings are his most likely destinations

[irish]

Trade Campbell?! Who in the world would want him? I dont have a problem with the idea but I just dont see him being worth very much more than a later round pick.

[Dblock804]

Originally Posted by irish

Trade Campbell?! Who in the world would want him? I dont have a problem with the idea but I just dont see him being worth very much more than a later round pick.

Millen is gone from Detroit so I gotta think your right

[GTripp0012]

I like Byron Leftwich a lot, but the time to jump on him would have been last year when his value as at it's lowest. Thanks to some good performances as backup QB of the Super Bowl Champs, Leftwich's value is back in line with his talent level, and we would be competing with teams that want him as a starter.

Bottom line: Leftwich would have been a good fit here in the past, but our current situation doesn't warrant any serious interest in him right now.

[irish]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I like Byron Leftwich a lot, but the time to jump on him would have been last year when his value as at it's lowest. Thanks to some good performances as backup QB of the Super Bowl Champs, Leftwich's value is back in line with his talent level, and we would be competing with teams that want him as a starter.

Bottom line: Leftwich would have been a good fit here in the past, but our current situation doesn't warrant any serious interest in him right now.

I also cant help thinking why would BL want to leave a perennial contender like Pgh to come to the Skins. I know he's from DC but Pgh is only 4 hours from here so he's not far from his family.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by irish

I also cant help thinking why would BL want to leave a perennial contender like Pgh to come to the Skins. I know he's from DC but Pgh is only 4 hours from here so he's not far from his family.

He's already got a ring from Pittsburg. Why would he want to stay with them as a backup, making backup money, and know that he would never get the chance to start unless Big Ben got hurt?

He's still fairly young, is a free agent, and the redskins are the team he presumably grew up rooting for. If he felt he had a chance to come here, get starting money, and actually get to PLAY for the team he loves, why stay in pittsburg and sit on a bench the rest of his career?

[irish]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

He's already got a ring from Pittsburg. Why would he want to stay with them as a backup, making backup money, and know that he would never get the chance to start unless Big Ben got hurt?

He's still fairly young, is a free agent, and the redskins are the team he presumably grew up rooting for. If he felt he had a chance to come here, get starting money, and actually get to PLAY for the team he loves, why stay in pittsburg and sit on a bench the rest of his career?

There are only a few teams where BL could go and be a starter and the Skins are one of those teams for sure but in the big picture BL is a back up and if one is going to be a back up the Steelers arent a bad team to back up on.

[horny4zorny-nohomo]

he should replace T.C

[cochise]

Yeah, well, that "slow relaese" burned our defense!!

[53Fan]

While I don't agree with everything BHA posts, I do enjoy getting a different perspective on things and I think some of us are selling Colt Brennan short.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

While I don't agree with everything BHA posts, I do enjoy getting a different perspective on things and I think some of us are selling Colt Brennan short.

I don't think too many people are selling Brennan short. Brennan=Timmy Chang isn't very productive, but what's Brennan's ultimate hope? That he develops into a bona fide NFL Starter, someone like Jason Campbell or Byron Leftwich, and then people don't cast him aside for stupid reasons (like the ones that dropped him in the draft, if the scouts were wrong)?

I think he's more than capable of being our No. 2 guy, but I wouldn't bet a season on his ability to play in the NFL. Too much risk for the potential reward (an extra second round pick in this case).

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I don't think too many people are selling Brennan short. Brennan=Timmy Chang isn't very productive, but what's Brennan's ultimate hope? That he develops into a bona fide NFL Starter, someone like Jason Campbell or Byron Leftwich, and then people don't cast him aside for stupid reasons (like the ones that dropped him in the draft, if the scouts were wrong)?

I think he's more than capable of being our No. 2 guy, but I wouldn't bet a season on his ability to play in the NFL. Too much risk for the potential reward (an extra second round pick in this case).

I would never say start Brennan NEXT season. But given a couple of years, it is possible he could turn out to be a very good QB. I don't know how anyone could say with any certainty he won't.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

I would never say start Brennan NEXT season. But given a couple of years, it is possible he could turn out to be a very good QB. I don't know how anyone could say with any certainty he won't.

I think he could be a pretty good NFL QB, but there's not the known quantity factor that you get in the high round draft picks. It's more than possible that the scouts were simply right on Brennan, that he's a guy you never want to see the field. Optimistically, I think he'll probably start somewhere in the NFL someday. Probably not here though.