52 minutes ago, nipples said:

Cool, now go around the rest of the league and tell me how much starting experience the backup QBs on other teams have. 

 

I'll give you a head start by just doing the NFC East:

Eagles - Pickett: 24 starts

Cowboys - Trey Lance: 4 starts

Giants - Drew Lock: 23 starts

Commies - Jake Fromm: 2 starts

 

 

No

1 hour ago, weko said:

The Steelers always had a good rushing attack and offensive lines but both have really slipped the past few years.  And Tomlin like most defensive head coaches doesn't have a clue about modern offense, men in motion, different alignments.  He is stale offensively.  It will be interesting to see how Pickett does with a good oline with 2 pro bowl wrs a pro bowl te and pro bowl rb  and with K Moore, a more innovative OC

If there was a quarterback tailor made for Kellen Moore, it would probably be Kenny Pickett. Pickett has many faults but he is one of the most accurate deep ball passers and Moore is very good at finding ways to exploit formations to open up deep shots. According to the deep ball project Pickett was 2nd in deep ball passing accuracy at 57% and Hurts was 5th at 55%.

I don't know if it'll work out but for 5mil, they can cut him in TC and I wouldn't care. I don't see him as a threat to Hurts at all. Hurts has the ability to carry the team and other than Mahommes, I don't see any other QB that can consistently do that.

4 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

It isn't though, if they were desperate for a back up they could've taken Trubisky, Bridgewater or Brissett for not much more money and dropped no picks. Hell even if Howie was dead set on this clown, they could've just waited for Pittsburgh to cut him.

It's only a smart move if you pick up someone for less than he's worth, after the Wilson signing, Pickett is worth a freezer full of ice creams and a new set of team jerseys. He adds nothing to the QB room.

Pickett is still young enough that GMs and coaches of other teams may be stupid enough to trade for him if he shows anything.

The 3 guys you mentioned above are way past that.

6 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

For the QB with the worst ever attempts to touchdown ratio for QB's over 500 pass attempts since records began? 

This is a crap trade, for a bad QB, who isn't going to play enough to even be a reclamation project.

I would genuinely rather they'd traded for Zach '80's lesbian tennis player' Wilson than this tiny handed clown.

Hyperbole? Zach Wilson is nowhere near Pickett. Stop.

4 hours ago, st0n3r said:

Rumors were he was unhappy with the Wilson signing as he didnt view himself as a backup. Why would we give anything for someone who has shown they didnt want to be a backup to someone who is going to be declared the backup immediately/?

Financially its not bad, but his attitude said not a backup so I cant see this working well.

Obviously to flip him. Theres no other reason. Other than pickett likes Philly.

Pickett can’t be worse than Mariota, right?

5 hours ago, Mr_Philly said:

So basically Howie will showcase him in the preseason and flip the two 7th round picks to a 3rd or 4th round pick down the road to a Quarterback needy team, lol

AJ Feely 2.0

Pickett is a very good Qb

5 hours ago, time2rock said:

Sourece:  https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphia-eagles-2025-draft-picks-future/

So, just to be clear, we still have 6 picks in 2025, although two of them are in the 7th round. We’ll probably trade one of our 5ths this year for a 4th or higher 5th next year though. 

Just now, eggs said:

So, just to be clear, we still have 6 picks in 2025, although two of them are in the 7th round. We’ll probably trade one of our 5ths this year for a 4th or higher 5th next year though to get back to even/steven  

 

GREAT movie. They had four 7th's in 2025 so giving up two of them is nothing. They moved down from 98 to 120, got a really good young backup QB for two years, and most importantly they just saved around 6-8 million in cap space based on the going rate for backup QB's in free agency. Not to mention there is a chance they could help him turn his career around and flip him in a year or two for better picks. There is nothing to complain about with this move but the whining drama queens around here will always do so anyway.

Not a great move, nor was it terrible.

• Good backup QBs are worth their weight in "gold". JAGs bring an average price of $5M.
• Mariota was/is? a JAG. He got $5M last year - $6M this year.
• There are very few good emergency QBs available in-season.
• 3 QBs are a necessity - moreover we had no game experience on the bench.
• We now have an exprienced backup at a reasonable cap price.
• We have up to 2 years to evaluate his progress.
• We wouldn't have considered drafting a QB any earlier that round 5.

All told, I personally am mildly optimistic with this move.

7 hours ago, D-Shiznit said:

But why?

We needed a backup

7 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

GREAT movie. They had four 7th's in 2025 so giving up two of them is nothing. They moved down from 98 to 120, got a really good young backup QB for two years, and most importantly they just saved around 6-8 million in cap space based on the going rate for backup QB's in free agency. Not to mention there is a chance they could help him turn his career around and flip him in a year or two for better picks. There is nothing to complain about with this move but the whining drama queens around here will always do so anyway.

He might even turn into Foles.2.

We needed a backup QB.  It's not as if there are dozens of options out there.  Plus, Pickett's contract is salary cap friendly.  So, it is what it is.  We have ourselves a new backup QB.

8 hours ago, Eagles1960 said:

Gave up way too much for a guy that hopefully won't play.  He was very very average with the Steelers.  Don't understand this one.  He is just not very good.

He is probably the best backup in the league.  And he was not that bad with Pittsburgh.

This is a MASSIVE upgrade at backup QB.

45 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

GREAT movie. They had four 7th's in 2025 so giving up two of them is nothing. They moved down from 98 to 120, got a really good young backup QB for two years, and most importantly they just saved around 6-8 million in cap space based on the going rate for backup QB's in free agency. Not to mention there is a chance they could help him turn his career around and flip him in a year or two for better picks. There is nothing to complain about with this move but the whining drama queens around here will always do so anyway.

And Pickett has shown he can play.  

This is about as good a backup as you can get. 

Also just to compare. I do prefer Howell but Washington wasn't trading him to us and Seattle gave up significantly more than we did for Pickett.

Washington got picks 78 and 152 for a total of 230.6 points on the draft value chart. Seattle got picks 102 and 179 for 111.8 points.

-Washington gains 118.8 points which is the equivalent of a late 3rd round pick

Pittsburgh got pick 98 and two future 7th round picks (most 7th round picks are only worth 1 point and that is for the current year) for a total of 110 points. The Eagles got back pick 120 for a total of 54 points.

-Pittsburgh gains 56 points which is the equivalent of a late 4th round pick

I don’t like it but I don’t hate it either. We didn’t give up much for him and I think his level is as a decent back up.

8 hours ago, eephraim said:

Hyperbole? Zach Wilson is nowhere near Pickett. Stop.

Statistically Pickett has the worst TD to pass attempt ratio for a QB who threw over 500 passes in the sports history. There isn't a regular starting QB in the NFL ever who isn't better at throwing TD's than Pickett.

Mariota wasn't great but you could at least make a case that he could run more of the same offense as Hurts, Pickett is a pocket passer with no running ability and he's not great at passing either.

That's before you even get started on his absolutely godawful reaction to getting benched last year.

This is a bad deal that makes no sense. We aren't flipping a player who plays 2 or 3 garbage time snaps a game for anything after he refused to dress for Pittsburgh last year. He's worth nothing as a player or a locker room presence.

This was a good move, Pickett played with way less talent offensively as well as the OC was just horrible. I'm much more confident with Pickett under the tutelage of Moore 

and our offense that when called upon he'll be just fine.

2 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

Statistically Pickett has the worst TD to pass attempt ratio for a QB who threw over 500 passes in the sports history. There isn't a regular starting QB in the NFL ever who isn't better at throwing TD's than Pickett.

Mariota wasn't great but you could at least make a case that he could run more of the same offense as Hurts, Pickett is a pocket passer with no running ability and he's not great at passing either.

That's before you even get started on his absolutely godawful reaction to getting benched last year.

This is a bad deal that makes no sense. We aren't flipping a player who plays 2 or 3 garbage time snaps a game for anything after he refused to dress for Pittsburgh last year. He's worth nothing as a player or a locker room presence.

Pickett is very athletic and is a good option to run the same type of offense that we do with Hurts.  He's not exclusively a pocket passer alone. 

Nothing to complain about this move. We need a back up. It remains to be seen if our # 3 is ready or not.

So, who will hold the clipboard better? Pickett or McKee?

And, we won't have a preseason controversy when Jalen doesn't have to play and Pickett and McKee are showcasing whatever they got?

Hopefully Pickett and McKee show they are better than Mariota.