Why not keep Andy as a backup?

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(04-26-2020, 12:58 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: My guess is Belichick doesn’t like Love/Hurts/Eason/Fromm, and can’t afford, or doesn’t want, Dalton/Cam/Winston. He probably rolls with Stidham this season, and either sees he has a potential franchise QB, or he’ll go for one of the better QB prospects next year. The Andy Dalton led Pats are not beating KC or BAL in the playoffs anyway.

Ryan Tannehill just got done beating Baltimore and getting KC fans to melt down prior to that comeback, so I wouldn't be so sure the AFC is completely locked up.  With that being said, I still can't grasp NE rolling with Stidham and Winston is going to the Saints (not that they'd want him), so Dalton getting cut and then going to NE and having a Palmer in AZ-style resurgence of semi-relevance could be plausible.

If/when Dalton gets cut they'd be nuts to not at least kick his tires, or some such. But I could see Dalton just clipboarding it this season behind Burrow.