Stray Arrows: Simms Watch
Not that Sims from Tampa Bay–Chris Simms. Apparently, there is no way in hell the Bucs are going to keep him. From ESPN’s NFC South Blog:
Simms wants out of Tampa Bay. Gruden’s got five quarterbacks and Simms still is No. 5 on his list. Heck, Gruden would probably go out and pick up another quarterback from somewhere else before he keeps Simms.
Nothing has changed between Gruden and Simms, despite a strong showing by the quarterback in Saturday night’s preseason opener. The Bucs still want to unload Simms, who hasn’t played in a regular-season game in 2006 and they’ll continue to showcase him every chance they get.
Look for Simms to get extensive playing time in Sunday night’s second preseason game against New England. The Bucs want to show the rest of the league that Simms is healthy and try to drive up his trade value.
Keep an eye on how the Chiefs‘ quarterbacks play Saturday night, and then to how Simms performs a day later. That should tell us whether we are going to be interested or not.
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Call me jaded, but Brodie needs all season standing in the pocket slinging passes this year before we should replace him. I think that is the only way we will know if we can get any returns on our investment in the kid. If he fails us this year we can take our top 5 pick (which we will have if Brodie fails) and get a QB first round. We are not going to the Super Bowl this year, and we are probably not making the playoffs. Why not give him the ball and let him play. Worst case scenario we finish bad enough to take Tim Tebow next year and have the Qb spot locked up (we hope.)
August 12th, 2008 at 9:27 pmI love Tim Tebow in college but it would make me sick to actually draft him. Wasted pick.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:32 pmI’m not so sure about that. He actual has many prototypical QB traits, unlike Chase Daniel.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:14 pmThe guy is a freak, but I really don’t think he’s an NFL quarterback.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pmI can see him not working out, but I do think he’s a good NFL prospect. This upcoming season should be telling.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:15 amThe Pro level will likely take away one of his most — if not THE most — aspect of Tebow’s game: the run. He can’t run in the NFL the way he runs in college.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:40 amThat should have read “most important”
August 13th, 2008 at 12:41 amYou can run, though. V.Y., Vick, Steve Young, Cunningham, even Elway. It just depends what kind of year he has, and which team he ends up with. Could go either way. At least that’s how I feel about him.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:56 amI’m not saying he can’t run, but his running STYLE will not cut it in the NFL. Michael Vick, Vince Young, and company are successful because they can run elusively.
Tewbow has an element of elusiveness against college opponents, but he won’t against pro football players. And trying to power through defenders will justend his career early.
I am also impressed with him as a passer, but I’m not so sure it isn’t his stud receivers and the threat of him running that don’t make that part look good. I guess we’ll see.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:41 amI agree with SBC. If we have to take QB in the draft and we have a choice on who we take then I’d have to go with a guy like Matt Stafford at this point. Local product Josh Freeman would be my second choice. I see both as high-level, NFL caliber QBs in my opinion. It will be interesting to watch how each of them fares this season.
As far as Simms goes, yeah, makes a lot of sense to me as the #2.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:03 amI like Chase Daniel, too.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pmI love Josh Freeman, obviously. I think he’s one of these guys who might end up being even better in the pros. Still, he has two years left. He reminds me a lot of D-McNabb.
I don’t think Daniel is a good pro prospect. I’ve met him. He looks like a 5′10″ fullback–not like a QB at all. He has everything upstairs, just not the body to be an NFL QB.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pmChase Daniel is listed at 6′0. The same height as Drew Brees.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pmI dont think we can trust a madhatter to give us a totally unbiased evaluation of a QB from Mizzou…
Particularly Chase Daniel. Chase is taller than a lot of guys who’ve made it big in the NFL. I suspect underestimating his pro potential is as big a mistake as underestimating him has been in the past.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pmFlutie didn’t have the body for an NFL QB either.
Chase Daniel AND Freeman both look good, but If our O struggles as much as we think (talking about higher up draft picks) than we should invest in a lineman, not a QB. That extra half second in the pocket turns ordinary, average QB’s into Super Bowl contenders, see Dilfer, Trent on that one. If Brodie looks solid, but not great, and we have all these weapons, we need to buy him time, not tank his confidence.
Mark my words, we’ll be talking about LB’s and our D in general, come the draft, not our O. I think Brodie goes for 3.3k yards, 20 TD’s/12 picks. LJ pops for 1300 or so, with ~8 TD’s. Charles adds a hefty 400 or so on the ground, with a few breakaway TD’s. I also think Bowe and Tony are both getting just around 1,000 apiece.
I wasn’t here for the beginning of last year, so I don’t know if this is even a thought, but what’s up on an AA fantasy league? I have asked a couple times, but don’t remember seeing anything. (I may just be blind, or might have been gone a few days and the replies got lost in the shuffle of things.) I’m itching for a fantasy roster to research, update, and dominate with. I think we could easily get 20-30 people (in at least 2-3 leagues) that would keep up with an AA fantasy league. Just make up our own league password, create a private league, and see how many AA fans show up. If that leage fills up, bam, another one can be put up easily. Or, we could have an AA signup, and see how many volunteers we can get to fill in the leagues. Last year I had a few teams up, but people who didn’t draft/update/or care for their teams were littered throughout my leagues. It pissed me off, so I’m raring to go. Lol. I’m also a bit hyper, so sorry if I rambled a bit. Cream soda and Mountain Dew do that to me.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:05 amI’ve never done fantasy football, but have been interested in it for a while now. As I said the last time xxxlp brought this up, count me in if we do that. I don’t live around anyone who would be interested.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:20 amGuess it’s not that popular, eh?
August 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pmWe are going to do a league. I’ll update everybody on that soon.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm