Why NFL Teams Must Stop Overpaying for Natural Backup QBs

August 26, 2012   ·   Erick Fernandez   ·   Jump to comments

With 11 days until the start of the NFL season there are two interesting quarterback battles going on during this NFL preseason and neither of them involves whatever is going on in Jets camp with Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow.
Both the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals have been put in a very tough position by the inconsistent play of quarterbacks who were signed to lucrative contracts. These quarterbacks were expected and paid to take the reins and provide some stability at the position for these two franchises.
Unfortunately for the Seahawks and the Cardinals, they believed that the best candidates to help their franchise move forward were quarterbacks that were backups for a few years.
Big mistake.
Last summer quarterback Kevin Kolb was traded from the Philadelphia Eagles to the Arizona Cardinals and was then given a five-year contract extension worth $63.5 million. This summer, Matt Flynn signed a three-year contract with the Seahawks for $19.5 million.
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