A major roadblock to the Saints coaching search could be Derek Carr

44slayer said
The Jags, Im giving Lawrence a year before throwing that out.

IMO, the Jets, Raiders and Saints are just about equal in QB situations. None of them are good or better than the other when you factor in everything. Sure, Carr is probably the better (less below average?) of the QBs from those 3 teams currently on their rosters. But he is also a very known, very average commodity that needs a crapton of help that he doesnt have here.

Loomis can say, the next HC will have a say in the QB situation.....but how much say can you have when even as a post june 1 cut, Carr would create 21 million in dead money?

What the Raiders have is, 97 million in cap space. The Jets 17 million and we are at -57 million. We are more than twice as far in the hole as the #31 team in salary cap space. Yes, people bit when Loomis said that we have more players under contract, but we are still -57 million in the hole with what the roster we had, that is old, injured and overall not all that talented.

Both teams draft ahead of us. Both have more cap space than we do. So the QB situation might not be better in LV or NY RIGHT NOW, they do seem to have more flexibility to change that.

Id say the QB situation is a wash between us NY and LV.

Yeah it’s certainly odd to bag on the Jets or Raiders in that regard.

The Jets took a swing at it all with an aging Rodgers and they lost that gamble.

In terms of the Raiders? That makes even less sense when people say “hurrr durrh, the Raiders QBs suck!!!!”

Yes. Yes they do.

They also don’t want Carr, let that one alone speaks volumes.

The Raiders are at least in position to change their fortune in that regard after moving on with Carr, it just didn’t work out for them last year with the musical chairs of the first round of the draft and something like 6 QBs going in the first with Bo Nix one pick ahead of them. Of course it could be argued they should have dropped Carr years ago and started drafting then.

As far as the Jags and Lawerence? I can see this going either way as in one could make the case that there are plenty of organizational problems with them. It might be that or it could be Lawrence or some combo of the two. Jury is still out.