Matt Ryan to the Colts

[Illustrious Potentate]

Sooo... What you're saying is that the Baker to ATL suggestion might actually happen?

It’s very possible

 

[Grant Ward]

Nah. He’s gonna be the key piece of the new triple option attack

That shit doesn't work in the NFL.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

That shit doesn't work in the NFL.

Doesn’t need to. Don’t need to be winning games we have no business winning

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

But seriously, how many GMs get to hire three HC’s for the same team and keep their job?

 

[DJ Fieri]

For a third rounder. Falcons can finally properly tank now. Think they may have to run the triple option next season though. No QB and no receivers

Mariota.

 

[dbldwn711]

Too many great points made by @Illustrious Potentate in this thread. I agree with him on just about everything. This year is a throw away but next year they will have plenty of cap space and a high draft pick.

i say Jamies Winston is your guy for this year

 

[dbldwn711]

Mariota.

i think he will be too much money.

 

[ojb81]

They need to do a complete rebuild. Roll with a scrub QB for a year, get a top pick next year and trade away any decent pieces they do have to stockpile picks. They have to eat 40 million of dead cap space on Ryan’s contract too

ouch!

 

[DJ Fieri]

i think he will be too much money.

Nah.

He unemployed right now and played for Atlanta HC when he was the OC in Tennessee.

 

[DraftNerd]

For a third rounder. Falcons can finally properly tank now. Think they may have to run the triple option next season though. No QB and no receivers

Corderelle Patterson for QB….because….why not.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Tell me again how Thomas Dimitroff wasn’t sent packing along with either Mike Smith or Dan Quinn?

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Mariota.

Looks like you’re right. Mariota to Atlanta just showed up on my Twitter feed

 

[ojb81]

Looks like you’re right. Mariota to Atlanta just showed up on my Twitter feed

not a bad pick-up, considering they're in re-build mode

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

not a bad pick-up, considering they're in re-build mode

Bridge QB. Hope he still sucks.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Looks like you’re right. Mariota to Atlanta just showed up on my Twitter feed

Saw that after I commented.

 

[DJ Fieri]

 

[Mofo]

Sooo... Baker to ATL then?

Imagine you are some sort of brilliant GM tactician, à la Kevin Costner in that awful movie where he saves the Browns. But the QBs you have to work with are guys like Mayfield, Wentz, Ryan and Garoppolo. If you land any of these guys, at the end of the day, do you go home happy?

 

[DraftNerd]

They need to do a complete rebuild. Roll with a scrub QB for a year, get a top pick next year and trade away any decent pieces they do have to stockpile picks. They have to eat 40 million of dead cap space on Ryan’s contract too

Holy shit that dead cap hit. That’s roughly 1/5 or so of all cap this year.

And I thought the Eagles were going to hold that record (largest dead cap hit) for longer than one year

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Holy shit that dead cap hit. That’s roughly 1/5 or so of all cap this year.

And I thought the Eagles were going to hold that record (largest dead cap hit) for longer than one year

Falcons will have the most dead money in NFL history for 2022, but they will be like 100 million under the cap in 2023

 

[DraftNerd]

Falcons will have the most dead money in NFL history for 2022, but they will be like 100 million under the cap in 2023

That’s an even better one year turn around than the Eagles did. I think they had something like $25-$30M when they started out this year.

Just muddle through another crap year and line up those draft picks and FA signings next year.