Huge FA Class in 2011 - But will anyone want to come here?

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Deep, for sure, but I'm not sure how many available players actually help us build.

In free agency, we can improve with:

- a starting RG
- any defensive player with experience in Pittsburgh's system.

But beyond that, I'm not sure whats out there that makes us a better team. The receiver class is very deep, and we certainly need some help there, but which player would come to Washington to be part of a rebuilding project? Breaston, maybe? Rice would be a killer signing, but he's possibly the most sought-after free agent on the market, if not the Vikings' franchise player.

The easiest position to improve through free agency would be the quarterback position, but there are no great names out there. All QBs who were once drafted in the first round and will be available in FA include:

Peyton Manning
Michael Vick
Matt Leinart
Byron Leftwich
Alex Smith
Kerry Collins
Rex Grossman
Kyle Boller

Plus one name I find to be most intriguing for the Shanahan system if/when he hits the market: Drew Stanton.

Vick and Manning obviously aren't coming here. Maybe we're interested in one of the other 6? Or Grossman plus one other.

I would not resign Grossman. I would bring in ONE of those free agents above, and draft TWO quarterbacks in the draft. That's how I would handle it.

when's the last time 2 drafted qb's really lasted on a team? I can't get on drafting 2 vs keeping one guy who played averagish

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

when's the last time 2 drafted qb's really lasted on a team? I can't get on drafting 2 vs keeping one guy who played averagish

Green Bay in 2008. They drafted Brian Brohm and Matt Flynn. They had Brohm for a year, and released them. They now have Graham Harrell in that roster spot.

They didn't draft any good quarterbacks, but it ended up not mattering because the incumbent starter turned out to be a great player. Hopefully the next team to employ the strategy has more success.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Green Bay in 2008. They drafted Brian Brohm and Matt Flynn. They had Brohm for a year, and released them. They now have Graham Harrell in that roster spot.

They didn't draft any good quarterbacks, but it ended up not mattering because the incumbent starter turned out to be a great player. Hopefully the next team to employ the strategy has more success.

So it hasn't really? I can't get behind a new QB and 2 draftees. Keep Rex, let him compete with ?????? and draft at least one.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

So it hasn't really? I can't get behind a new QB and 2 draftees. Keep Rex, let him compete with ?????? and draft at least one.

Well, I think you're looking at "worked" differently than I am. With two non-first round picks being drafted, "worked" is that one of the two becomes a starting quarterback. Certainly, it is rare for a 6th rounder like Flynn to beat out a 2nd rounder like Brohm, but drafting two QBs in the same draft made it possible. Brohm wasn't as good as the Packers thought, and Flynn was a little better.

It also made it easy to diagnose the development of one in practice, because the other works as a standard by which his development can be measured. Brohm would likely still be a Packer if they didn't draft Flynn, but one could argue that the Packers would be worse off behind Rodgers if he were.

In Green Bay, I think it worked. Obviously, Rodgers never looked back as the starter, but Matt Flynn wouldn't otherwise have made an NFL roster if not for the strategy the Packers used. He would have never risen past third string.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

when's the last time 2 drafted qb's really lasted on a team? I can't get on drafting 2 vs keeping one guy who played averagish

Troy Aikman and Steve Walsh...sort of