Nice, and it sort of helps us in any sort of WC formation simply because we can use the #3 Qb anyway we wish and still have a #2 Qb to not risk getting injured. Hmm, a Josh Portis makes a bit more sense, or if they want to get really crazy..Brad Smith.
He'd work as well, I mention Portis simply because I expect there to be quite a market for Froman and we may not land him, Portis is a different case. I liked some of the things they did with Thigpen last yr out of the WC, White seemed overmatched when he tried to do them.
I don't know about "quite a market". I think Atlanta and San Fran are interested. But I know that both Adam and his agent are leaning toward Miami. I know that because they told me.
Keep in mind that any team that wanted to could have listed their #3 QB among the 45 active players for game day. The whole rules about being able to toss an inactive QB in the game despite his being inactive came about because teams didn't want to use one of the 45 active spots for the 3rd QB. How long before they stop wanting to have to include a 3rd QB among the 46 active players, preferring another more useful position? And then once everyone starts doing that, there'll be a clamor for emergency QB rules again.
I read the same thing CK, also read Froman connected to SF months ago, however now the chatter will cease and the $$$$$ handed out and you just never know who will offer the most/best deal. Now what is sort of cool about the rule change is..we are going to see a slew of Qb's added, we have 2 rostered, we need 2 or 3 more. Do they bring in guys for specialized WC stuff who are mediocre passers? More drop back types? A mix? 3 Qb's rostered and 1 on the practice squad..a buffet of bargain bin Qb's arriving in Miami..soon.
Indeed. But I'm wondering if this is a rule that states, if you have a 3rd QB on your roster, he must be active during game days now. or something along those lines so teams could not use it on another position.
There are a number of things that were funny about that sequence. Not least of which was, it was totally unnecessary. Tyler Thigpen finished the game anyway. He could absolutely have come in and started throwing passes or handing the ball off in the 3rd quarter, it wouldn't have mattered. They wanted to preserve Chad Henne's ability to come back in if his injury wasn't severe...but why? They'd already benched the guy. No harm in letting Thigpen play about 17 minutes of a game you're already winning, in place of a guy you benched that just hurt his knee.
From what I can gather the new rule is simply that you must name 46 active players on game day and nobody among the inactives is allowed to play for any reason. In other words, list only two QBs if you dare, but if those two get hurt then you have no QB for the rest of the game. So you'd probably better list three QBs to be safe.
I never understood why all players are not active. Someone tried to explain a competitive balance because of injuries but, didn't buy that reason. Anyone else?
With quarterbacks being more and more protected by rules changes, the likelihood in my view is that the 3rd quarterback will become less and less important.
