Taylor Effing Heinicke

[AnonEmouse]

To my mind:

1) TH should be #1 backup for now, and that's why he was extended last year. He offers a spark coming of the bench we don't have otherwise. But he doesn't have the arm to manage a whole season.
2) Allen should probably be gone in the offseason. He's never demonstrated the talent to be anything more than a perennial backup and we already have TH.
3) Gilbert is 30 and realistically if he really offered anything more than backup/PS squad rotation one of his 8 previous teams would have elevated him by now.

We need a new #1 and hopefully a franchise QB at that. Maybe we don't get him in this draft, but we need to draft a QB anyway this year (they might turn out to be the new TH if not #1 quality), and keep drafting one until we find our guy. The key is to avoid another Haskins at the very least. While I'm not convinced that the current staff can identify a franchise QB in the making, I'm pretty confident they're good judges of character at least.