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Buccaneers Offer To Make Mike Glennon NFL’s Highest Paid Backup QB
Posted On Mar 08 2017
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Thus New York is in a serious conundrum.
On Tuesday Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported that the Bears will pursue the Buccaneers quarterback as the free agent signing period begins on Thursday. Glennon has been the Bucs backup quarterback ever since. Getting younger could be their first step in ending that streak and eventually contending again. According to the NFL Players Association, the Bears have about $51.5 million in salary-cap space.
Glennon could turn out to be a productive quarterback, but for him to make $15 million before he has at all looked like one seems very wrong. The Jets’ newly-hired quarterbacks coach, Jeremy Bates, held the same position when Cutler played for the Broncos and Bears. Brian Hoyer (Bears) and Colin Kaepernick (49ers) are other potential options. The Bears still intend to draft a quarterback, and in a ideal National Football League world, that quarterback – or the one they draft the following year in 2018 (the Bears have to draft multiple quarterbacks to get this thing right) – may be ready to take over on a permanent basis. The average Passing NEP per drop back that season was 0.10. Would it be smart for the Bears to take Clemson QB Deshaun Watson as high as No. 3 in the draft or is that wasting that high of a pick? The devil with any deal Glennon might sign will be in the guaranteed money that’s included in the fine print. The 49ers and Bills have also dropped out. The Cowboys likely will release or trade Tony Romo, but the veteran will have a significant say on who his next team will be.
The Jay Cutler era in Chicago nearly certainly is at an end, and the Bears actively are trying to trade him. He also said that the Bears love Garoppolo.
Tampa Bay selected Glennon in the third round of the 2013 draft. Trubisky and/or Watson could be there.
Word is buzzing that the Jets have no plans to select a quarterback high in the draft. A year after Brock Osweiler got four years and $72 million from the Texans, teams do not appear to be scared off by a small sample size. Still, they will likely bring in some low-priced competition for training camp.
