coordinator 13 Seasons with the Seahawks quarterbacks coach
last season.
That's not a very attractive job either because you have no
idea who the quarterback in Tampa Bay is going to be,
unless, Tom, Brady decides after 40 days of retirement to
come back again. I have a feeling
that's far less likely to happen this year.
Yeah, I mean the only the only quarterback they have under
contract is Kyle Trask and so, you know, and Kyle Trask, we
know less than zero about right now. So clearly Tampa Bay is
going to be in the market for a veteran quarterback, whether
it's somebody,
you know who is closer to the end than the beginning, whether
it's somebody like Ryan Tannehill or whether you know,
they decide to get in the Derrick Karr Stakes for some
reason. I doubt they would
Go for Derek Carr because they're in cap,
they're being really pinched by the cab.
And a lot of these contracts they signed with guys
basically had phony years on the end.
So the, you know, the piper is going to come calling this year
and next year
just to make sure that they get rid of some of the cap
obligations on guys who deferred a lot of their money
and the Bucks. Help them defer it
by putting phony years on the end of those contracts. So
I know that they can go and
be very serious about going to get a 30 or 35 million dollar
quarterback in Derek Carr.
That reminds me of one of the little blips of news that came
up last weekend that I don't think I ever wrote about. And
I don't know whether or not any of the other folks at PFT did
that the Bucks are just going to take the thirty five point 1
million dollar cap charge for Tom Brady this year instead of
trying to get him
to do a dummy contract, that would spread it out over to
like 11 and 24, which would be more palatable this year.
They're just going to take it now part of that, maybe
he Was never going to do that dummy. Contract, which does
leave the door open for him to come back because he becomes
a free agent without that dummy contract. Otherwise the Bucks
would hold his rights, but that makes it harder to go out and
pay
a
quarterback, big money. If you're if you're accounting
under your cap, think about that, your salary cap has
a charge on and of 35 million for a guy who's not there.
And that's become more commonplace
as the cap goes up. Those numbers aren't as shocking last
year. The Falcons had what 40 million The books for Matt
Ryan.
So it happens and that's what that's the downside of
stuffing. All that money into the quarterback Pockets up
front, there's a bill to pay at the end in the
form of a huge cap charge.
But what you know what, you've seen more and more of, is that
teams take their medicine. All in one year. Atlanta took their
medicine
in 2022. The Giants took their medicine in 2022,
from a lot of the deals, the low.
Lousy deals that Dave gettleman did
and I think that when Joe Shane took the job
he said you know we'll take our medicine now and will be in
a lot better shape, starting in 2023. And if I were the Bucks,
I would do the exact same thing.
Don't let your friend chai's, be be bothered
for multiple years
for what you did, in trying to win it all again,
trying to run it back so to speak.
You know, take your take your medicine right now and I think
my guess would be, that's what Tampa Bay is going to try to
do.
And I want to mention Byron Leftwich very very quickly
here. He went from being almost the Jaguars head coach a year
ago to now out of a job and not even mentioned for these other
offensive coordinator vacancies, it just shows you
how quickly Peter
that window can close and that's why I always say if
you're a head coaching candidate
and that windows open don't assume it's going to be open
next year. Ben Johnson, the Lions offense of coordinator.
No reason to think it won't be open for him next year. But
a year ago, we I said no reason to think it won't be open for
Byron Leftwich in 2023.
Yeah, and I mean Ben Johnson wasn't guaranteed to get
the Carolina job. Although honestly, I think he would have
gotten the Carolina job. Had he
been aggressive and really wanted that job
but I don't I really don't blame him at all. Mike, he's on
an up-and-coming team and even if the Lions regress a little
bit next year, everybody understands what a good Kochi
is.
It's kind of funny.
There are two Johnson's in this.
Game right now. We're going to be prominent offensive
coordinators this year. Brian Johnson in Philadelphia Ben
Johnson in Detroit. And if I had to make a list, now of
the top
seven to ten head coaching candidates
in 2024, January of 2024, I would guess the to be
Johnson's. Would both be on that list.
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