Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
Originally posted by tankle104:
He was the highest paid, for sure. I did think he was worth it though. I think he was hands down the highest paid backup though.
damn, I guess with Jimmie's playtime - he was our second highest paid player in the team last year because of incentives. I didn't realize that. Nearly our highest paid. Sometimes I forget he started 11 games. Lol didn't feel like it.
we just love paying our backups I guess. Hahaha
This will hopefully be the last season where a high value backup, or potentially even two is needed.
Brock plays great this season and stays healthy, we have an answer at the position and go with a more traditional depth structure. Same if the light bulb goes off for Trey.
As much as it would be a luxury to devote the money we are spending on backups elsewhere, at least the total figure at the position is still on the lower end. We just need to be able to take full advantage of it for at least one season.
Let's hope!
yeah, ultimately jimmy last season and Trey/Darnold this year is still relatively cheap. $12M for jimmy last year? Steal. If Trey/darnold has to play this year, and they play well, that's a steal. So I have no issue with it. It just surprised me (I didn't realize Jimmy was #2
last year until a few minutes ago).
at the end of the day, it's all still a bargain. Like you said, hopefully this is the last year we take this kind approach and go more traditional. If Trey is moved this year, we will be going into next season with only Purdy under contract.. which isn't a great situation.
like I said, it doesn't bother me, I just didn't realize that.