Rams won't quit on Bradford for Freeman (Bradford isn't special, but he's not terrible). Jags would be a good fit. Problem is they are stupid (or tanking).
HA HA HA! As someone who has watched him twice per season since he's been the starter in Tampa, be careful what you wish for. If one interception that cost the Texans a game has folks burning jerseys in the parking lot, Freeman might cause a brain aneurysm in the first half. He's mobile. Big deal. He's inaccurate as hell.
I hate Schaub but Freeman is even more broken than him. Do not want. Bring in the QB that knows the system but can still create out of the pocket. Bring in the QB with hurry up offense experience. Bring in the QB that can lead a receiver with his throw. Bring in Case Keenum.
I'd feel more comfortable with Yates or even Keenum under center than Freeman. Seriously...the days of picking up other teams garbage are over.
And the coaching staff can judge that for themselves having him for a year of practice. Costs you zero draft picks and cutting an undrafted free agent who's never played in an actual game for anyone. Zero risk, possible reward.
It's not exactly zero-risk. Picking him up would mean someone else is getting cut to make room for him.
The only year of his career he had a QB rating above 82.... Schaub, on the other hand, hasn't been below 90 since 2007.
isn't he an interception machine??? 66 int's in 60 career games. from what i've seen of him, he likes to gambling on throws too much.... no thank you....
I doubt they go after him (or that even slips to them in the waiver order)... but I will say this: The Texnas run an EXTREMELY QB FRIENDLY system. Probably the most QB friendly system in the league (at least one that's effective). You don't have to rely on your athleticism to make plays, you don't have constant 5 step drop-backs while you overly rely on your protection to allow WR's to get open (Eli's problem now), and you don't have to make throws that only a handful of QB's have the ability to make (I bet about 80% of Schaub's completed throws are to WIDE OPEN receivers, by design). A guy like Rosenfels, who did virtually nothing his entire career, need do nothing but make the right read and hit an open receiver in stride (yes, no rosencopter was needed). A guy like Leinart, who doesn't even have a job now, likely would have been just as good as Yates ended up being (if not much better). I have faith that this system turns average QB's into good ones, good ones into better than good ones... not sure what it does to guys who were already elite before being exposed to it, as within both Denver and Houston Kubiak has yet to have one of those yet.
If you don't "force" the throw in this system, it really doesn't matter all that much what your INT rate was prior.
If anyone wonders why Hey Now! defends Schaub, it's cause of threads like this. I fully understand and support the disappointment with Schaub, but just because he's playing like ass the last 8-9 games of his career doesn't mean any dude who can fling a football 60 yards is automatically better.
No it doesn't. That doesn't mean we don't exercise every option available to us to find a better quarterback.
I think most people who have any sort of idea how football works realize Freeman would not be an upgrade over Schaub.
