time2rock Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Jaguars ship Gardner Minshew to Eagles Posted by Mike Florio on August 28, 2021, 10:19 AM EDT Getty Images The goofiest quarterback competition of 2021 ended with Trevor Lawrence beating out Gardner Minshew, who notoriously said last month that he hasn’t moved his bowels in weeks because "No. 2 is not an option.” Minshew will now have a chance, in theory, to become something more than No. 2 in Philadelphia. The Jaguars are trading Minshew to the Eagles, we’re told. Jacksonville gets a sixth-round pick in 2022. It can become a fifth-rounder based on playing time. Minshew, who inherited the starting job in Jacksonville in Week One of his rookie season after Nick Foles broke a collarbone, has 37 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions in two seasons. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Jalen Hurts remains the starter and Joe Flacco will be the backup. Minshew, at a base salary of only $850,000, provides depth in a 17-game season with the ever-present specter of COVID knocking players out, vaccinated or not. The Jaguars got Minshew in the sixth round of the 2019 draft. They presumably were hoping for more for Minshew, and it’s now safe to conclude (given what they took for him) that the quarterback competition was aimed at propping Minshew up in the hopes of getting more than what they got. And it didn’t work. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/08/28/jaguars-ship-gardner-minshew-to-eagles/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
time2rock Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 Do they carry 3 QBs now? The paid Flacco pretty well and he has looked good, and have to think Minshew is here to stay (doubt they'd deal a draft pick for him now if they did not intend to do so). Could they trade Flacco? Would only incur a $485K cap hit if we dealt him. Cutting him would incur a $1.56M dead money hit to this year's cap (with the rest of the hit being realized next year). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoconoDon Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Well, we had Nickfoleon Dynamite so why not Uncle Rico too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_EaglesFan89 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Ultimately it isn't a trade that really matters. I mean he's possibly QB3 this year, he may be a back up for a couple of years. It's a sixth round pick so it doesn't matter. But I do find it a strange one. And to me he's a comical character with his silly moustache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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