How can you justify NOT starting AJ McCarron the rest of the season?

[George Cantstandya]

(11-06-2017, 04:28 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: And what do you base him NOT being a world beater at QB off of? Fact of the matter is, you have an unknown with McCarron sitting on your bench about to hit free agency in the off season. If youre in the front office, what harm is it to start him the rest of the season to evaluate him? The season is OVER. 

What harm?  Well there are still questions related to his free agency status.  So the harm could be he plays like crap, remains a restricted free agent and his value drops.  Right now it appears he can probably be valued with a second round tender based on the Browns offer that fell through and several teams that are going to be QB needy next year.  So if he plays like garbage his value drops significantly and the Bengals at best can put an original round tender on him, meaning fifth round.

So that is a potential harm.  Again there are a lot of unknowns.  He status for next year being one and it depends on his arbitration case.

Of course if AJ wins his case and enters unrestricted free agency none of that will matter anyway and the messed up Browns deal looks even worse.

I agree the Bengals season is a wash. So as of now it seams there is no reason to risk the potential value AJ has by playing him on a team with a terrible o-line and very few offensive weapons.

Look at it this way. Say you have a decent low mileage car you have not driven for over a year. You think it is a good car but are unsure as you have not driven it in a while. You have a good idea that some people will be willing to pay you for the car without test driving it because it looks like a good car to them as well. However, you decide to take the car out for a drive the transmission fails or it gets hit by another car and wrecked and all those potential buyers find out about it. What happens to the value of that car?