Welp, Teddy can't start.

[Zod]

From Rapoport:

During trade talks to try to acquire Matthew Stafford, the Carolina Panthers made a serious offer to the Lions of their eighth overall pick, a fifth-round pick and quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, per league sources. Detroit opted to take the Rams offer. Carolina still looking.

 

This news pretty much conveys zero confidence in Teddy from the franchise. Once that is out there, it can't go back.

 

[mrcompletely11]

Didnt we already know this?

[Zod]

Just now, mrcompletely11 said:

Didnt we already know this?

Suspected. Sure. But you can work around suspicion.

 

Now it's out there as fact. No turning back.

[hepcat]

But what a great sport Teddy is taking this news like a champ. They should give him an award for trying.

[mrcompletely11]

Also the Lions could have gotten good in a hurry with the 7 and 8 picks plus what the rams are giving them and goff.  No brainer for them. 

 

They could go Pewell and Slater and be locked for awhile

[PhillyB]

yeah he's gone one way or another 

[Moo Daeng]

6 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Didnt we already know this?

Yes. For a while

[mrcompletely11]

5 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

yeah he's gone one way or another 

He can start until the bye or whenever the rookie is ready 

[Waldo]

[Wanderlai]

What did they think he could do when they signed him? 99% of us knew he was not the answer. I just don’t get it. We could have just sucked it up, trotted out Grier, lost almost every game, and cemented a top pick. Now we are stuck in no mans land. 

Edited February 7, 2021 by Wanderlai

[Peon Awesome]

Hopefully Teddy is not that dense that the news that he was involved in a trade for Stafford, a guy who's career and production massively dwarfs his own is some "shake me to my core" shocking revelation after everything else the organization has said and done this offseason. I mean if it does, oh boy, he has to be the most obtuse person on the planet. But I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt here. I don't think this news changes a thing. It also doesn't exclude the very real possibility of Teddy starting week 1, particularly if we draft a guy like Lance.

[TheRumGone]

I don’t think he should even be on the team let alone starting next year.

poo is awkward. 

Edited February 7, 2021 by TheRumGone

[LinvilleGorge]

11 minutes ago, Wanderlai said:

What did they think he could do when they signed him? 99% of us knew he was not the answer. I just don’t get it. We could have just sucked it up, trotted out Grier, lost almost every game, and cemented a top pick. Now we are stuck in no mans land. 

This. It's what I've been saying for awhile. None of this is Teddy's fault. Teddy was for us what he's always been. It's 100% on us for evidently expecting him to be something that he's not and that there was ample NFL evidence against him being.

[Mr. Scot]

If you fail in the quest to secure a better option though, do you still get rid of him?