Call me a Sam Bradford basher if you want to, but I’m just a realist it’s my opinion so there’s that. If you haven’t been paying attention the Philadelphia Eagles resigned Sam Bradford this offseason to a two year $36 million deal with over $20 million guaranteed. When I first saw this deal I thought to myself what molly have the Eagles been on? Are they on that Lilly (watch the movie Dope if you don’t get the reference)?
The deal shocked people so much that even Matt Flynn one of the O.G.’s of the I don’t deserve this much money in deal tweeted out wow that’s a lot of money. He even said I know I got a couple of nice deals a.k.a. he knows he didn’t live up to them, but at the end of the day get paid. With that being said we are still going to critique.
First off when he resigned with the Eagles to a two year deal did he think he was set as the quarterback of the future? He has made a gang of money since he was drafted and do you think injuries or not if he was a franchise quarterback the St. Louis (LA) Rams trade him for Nick Foles? If you don’t have the answer I’m going to tell you no, nobody is trading a franchise quarterback in a quarterback driven league. For him to sign the deal and try to force himself out of town because the Eagles gave up the farm to draft a young quarterback is like he signed that contract with Stevie Wonder’s vision. Or he made the move knowing nobody else would be stupid enough to give him that kind of money and he would have more leverage to get out, but wrong? Who wants an overpaid, often injured quarterback? Apparently the Eagles, but it doesn’t seem like anybody around the league would be willing to trade for Bradford at that cap number.
Bradford needs to be happy teams keep overpaying him and collect a check, some people will cape for him and say he never had this or that, but at the end of the day he is a marginal quarterback at best and we know that, the Eagles know that hell even Sam knows that deep down in his heart and nothing is wrong with that, but when you think you have this great trade market you need to reevaluate everything especially yourself. You aren’t the kid coming out of Oklahoma that had huge potential, you are the current retread quarterback that has had numerous knee injuries over the back several years. Look yourself in the mirror and keep cashing those checks because you are very lucky.
