If you were starting a franchise now who would you chose for your franchise QB.
Basically this is what Reese has to decide. We are going to take a major cap hit from Mac's old SB money anyway so you could use his 9mil base salary from cutting him to sign one of these other guys to a long term deal. I think most of these guys will cost you around 8mil a yr over the life of their contracts because the top QBs in recent drafts signed deals that payed that much, but the team gets a cap savings in their rookie yr because of the rookie salary pool.
It is a hard choice, but to me Mcnair is towards the bottom of the list given age and injury history.
I would leave the choice up to Chow and have him decide between Leinart and Rivers.
I'll vote for Rivers
Basically this is what Reese has to decide. We are going to take a major cap hit from Mac's old SB money anyway so you could use his 9mil base salary from cutting him to sign one of these other guys to a long term deal. I think most of these guys will cost you around 8mil a yr over the life of their contracts because the top QBs in recent drafts signed deals that payed that much, but the team gets a cap savings in their rookie yr because of the rookie salary pool.
It is a hard choice, but to me Mcnair is towards the bottom of the list given age and injury history.
I would leave the choice up to Chow and have him decide between Leinart and Rivers.
I'll vote for Rivers