Why is Marrone going with N.Foles as his QB instead of G.Minshew??

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

{checks to see if DeBerg thread}

I mean really? This one seems pretty obvious. Gardner Minshew, if he's lucky, will be Alex Smith someday. You're not burying Pat Mahomes or Russell Wilson here. He's gonna be a solid but unspectacular game manager. When people were saying "wait until the league gets tape on Mahomes" it's because we live in a world where Gardner Minshews exist.

And when that's his apex and you can't release Foles next season either, you absolutely need to either 1) pump Foles value for a trade (which would actually be viable) or 2) Get him as many snaps in this system as possible so you can regroup around him next season to truly decide what you want to do with him from there.

Sticking with Minshew would be completely asinine. This isn't a guy with All-Pro potential - he's a walking meme who had a few good days and has also shown some truly awful tendencies that will be picked apart the more he is exposed. You don't bury a guy you're paying $45 million over 24 months for that.

Oh ok yeah I’m reeruned and so is my op then lmao. I had no idea Foles was being given that amount of $$ for 2 years and I also didn’t realize he was not playing because he was hurt.

My fault for not doing the research I suppose but that’s what I have this place for!