What wouold you give for a decent backup QB?

[woodbuck27]

Hass is costing the Colts $7.5 million for 2 seasons.

I agree that it was not likely that Ted was going to draft a QB after he already had Coleman. And that leads me to my conundrum.

If you go two recently drafted backup QBs (at least one or the other low round or UFDA) the odds of a bust are high (Brohm, Coleman, Harrell). You run the risk of what happened this year.

If you go veteran, its more costly, there is no upside and that rookie/young 3rd QB has got to be 4th round or lower to save both the money AND the roster spot so you can stash them on the PS. Brohm and Flynn was an example of this working well. Harrell and Coleman was the opposite.

The vet + later draft pick end QB would be my preferred method. But you will not end up with a Rodgers like this, only a Flynn. Or maybe a Brady

With a Brady you would have another problem

Favre and Rodgers comes to mind.

Sometimes things come full circle.

[Pugger]

I will give you and some others here a FULL A+ ... A 100% SCORE for arguments that cover up MM and TT.

CONGRATULATIONS !

and we continue to >>> LOSE !

I have been on record here and on other forums saying TT and MM truly screwed up hoping Harrell and/or Coleman would develop into capable backup QBs. And then by the time it became obvious those kids were not going to pan out our choices were few. We even brought in Vince Young for crying out loud. We did eventually sign Wallace and a project in Tolzien. We'll never know if Wallace could have won a couple of these games while Aaron's collarbone healed. Losing both Rodgers and Wallace in subsequent weeks really put us in a bind. I'd wager no other team in this league would fare any better than us if they had this sorry QB situation.

[Carolina_Packer]

We survived having Harrell backup Rodgers last year and IMO Coleman is/will be a better QB than GH.

That's like saying Ecuador is better than Columbia in ice hockey.

[bobblehead]

Because no one could foresee us losing Rodgers AND Wallace in back to back weeks. I can't imagine another team faring any better if given this QB situation we are in presently. We'll never know if Wallace could have eked out a couple of wins while Rodgers was out. It also appears many of us thought Flynn was better than he is. We should have paid more attention to why QB needy teams like Oakland and Buffalo didn't want him. Had Senaca not gone down Flynn would still be unemployed.

Lets be fair to Flynn. He squeeked us a tie in minny and never had a chance in Detroit. Lets see how he does with multiple practices and hopefully a 3 count to throw.