Get in Line for Jeff Garcia's Services
Posted Feb 6th 2007 10:44AM by Ryan Wilson
Filed under: Broncos, Eagles, Panthers, Vikings, NFL Rumors
Continuing our anybody-but-Rex theme, Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News asks this question: "Imagine Jeff Garcia with the Bears on Sunday. Don't they win? Imagine Jeff Garcia with the Bears throughout the playoffs. Don't they win easily?"
I'm not willing to go that far, but Garcia certainly gives Chicago a much better chance against Indianapolis than Grossman did. If the Bears decide Grossman isn't the future, Garcia could be a short-term solution.
But the 36-year-old former retread is on several teams' free agent radar this off-season:
A story out of Minnesota speculated that the Vikings would pay him in excess of $4 million for a season. Denver isn't sure what it has yet with Jay Cutler, and the Broncos are West Coast offense-oriented. Carolina might be looking to replace Jake Delhomme. And those are just the teams with a realistic chance to make the playoffs next season.
Four million bucks? For one season? If you're the Vikes, why not give second-year player Tarvaris Jackson the experience and spend the dough elsewhere?
Denver makes more sense, especially if Plummer wants to be a starter ... but isn't that what Garcia wants too? Carolina's Jake Delhomme had a Grossman-esque 2006 season, but even if Garcia replaces him, for how long?
Whatever happens in the coming weeks, the big winner in all this is Jeff Garcia. A year ago he was almost out of football, and now he could pull in four mil as a temp worker. Almost as impressive as his stable of Playmate girlfriends. |
