NFL 2016-2017

I'm not sure Glennon is a worse QB. But, they'll have to play the games for us all to find out.

There was something going on in Chicago with Cutler, as there have been rumblings about getting rid of him for a while. Once they moved into rebuilding mode, there was really no reason to keep him as he wasn't going to be there when it was done. Though I have a feeling neither Fox nor the GM (whose name I'm too lazy to look up right now) will be there either.

 

Cutler is the best QB in the history of the Bears franchise full stop. He's not a rah rah guy but his talent compared to Mike Glennon isn't even close. I get that sometimes it's just time to move on but at this point what does it matter. It's kind of like the Eagles running Andy Reid out of town.

 

There are "what if" guys that I hate watching waste what little time they have left in their careers. I hate that guys like Phillip Rivers are wasting away in San Diego and now Jay Cutler is going to go a fledgling Jets franchise apparently. Still waiting to see where Romo lands. It's going to be an end of an era when those three check out. They fall into the "you'll miss them when they are gone" category.

 

It'll certainly be the end of an era when Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, and Ben Roethlisberger have all retired. Or as I like to call them, the Losman Three.

 

Tough. Good QBs, but never exactly over-achieved. So many BAD QBs these days that they certainly stand out above most, though. I'd put Ben as the clear #1 out of that group, team has played at a high level for most of his run. Eli has the 2 rings against the Patriots, but played to fairly mediocre results for most of his years. Rivers feels like he should have done more with his talent, but really only made that one run that I can remember, and it was a quick out. On a different team, feel like he'd have done better, I dunno.

Given the way the NFL has been trending, there will certainly be less decent QBs when those 3 quit. Have a hard time using them to define the era, though, outside of maybe Ben. And even then, it was really the Manning and Brady show, with Ben as a decent third act. And then there's Rodgers sort of straddling the timeline between Manning/Brady and the slightly younger crowd we're talking about. He's probably about the same age as the younger guys (when was he drafted again?) but definitely better.

 

Rodgers was drafted in 2005, the year after Eli, Roethlisberger, and Rivers.

 

So are they now with the Jets as trying to tank the season.

 

Oakland gets its collective heart ripped out by the Raiders... again.

 

I can't blame Mark Davis for taking the money and heading to the desert. But, it is a shame that these decisions come down to purely dollars.

 

Well, the people of Las Vegas, and Nevada in general, can vote out those politicians if they are unhappy with the deal. But, they voted those folks in, so they're getting what they paid for.

They're also built an NHL stadium for an expansion team.

 

None? No infrastructure improvements, no discounts on the land? Seldom that an arena is 100% privately financed. Not unheard of, but seldom.

 

Obligatory Fallout reference due to Las Vegas Raiders: