Cardinals vs. Seahawks: Backup QB Battle Breakdown

The peculiar story of the week, which is the Arizona Cardinals taking on the Seattle Seahawks. Now, we do know that it's backup versus backup in this game. Gardner Minshew against Drew Locke. When Locke has filled in for Sam Darnold, he's done a pretty good job. In fact, he's won games without Darnold there. But what did Arizona do? This offseason, Joe, and what were they thinking? I can't figure this one out. So they signed Jacoby Brissett and they finally give the guy his money based off what? Based off the second halves of coming back in a million games last year and just stat padding. So what did they think Jacoby Brissett was going to do this year, Joe? I don't know. To trade him for essentially nothing, a fourth-round pick and a second-round pick, going to Gardner Minshew. Joe, you know, I mean, But how do you decide at the everybody knows who Gardner Minshew is. He's going to win a couple games for you, and then he's going to be Gardner Minshew, and then you're going to look for a quarterback again. They also traded Harrison. I mean, Joe, if I didn't know any better, the Cardinals probably are looking at this like we've won way too many games. We're way too good for what we thought we were going to be. We're chasing picks, not chasing wins. I can't figure this one out. Cardinals sign a quarterback in the off season. This is like the dolphins trading Malik Willis halfway through the year. Very, very odd set of circumstances for me with them. Yeah. I think what you're going to see here, if I may is Gardner Minshew play this week against Seattle and he'll play against the Rams in Kansas city. It's a tough stretch here coming up And then I think eventually you will see Carson Beck get some starts here to get an evaluation of him, whether it's week 12 against the Washington commanders or coming out of the bye in week 14 into week 15, where you get the jets, new Orleans, Las Vegas, and then San Francisco and week 18. I think that could be the Carson Beck evaluation period in the latter part of the season. Michael Wilson is going to play today was not on the final injury report, despite the rib injury, which is kind of shocking to me. He had a great Game in that finish you mentioned last week, but this is a tough matchup here for the Seattle Seahawks coming off a really tough home loss there to Chicago Bears who just put it on them last week. Still wondering what the hell the offense of the Seattle Seahawks is, right? Where are they going with this running game? Charbonnet's come back way too soon. Jadarian Price hasn't been given enough grace, I think. It's kind of a mess. The only thing you can count on is JSN. I think he is quarterback proof. So you're starting JSN. I think Algiers is a tough start in this matchup against a very good Seattle Seahawks run defense. But at the same time, a unit that's probably going to have a lead, you would imagine, too. So you're going to have to pivot away. I think a little bit from that run game early, unfortunately, if you are the Arizona Cardinals. But I think this is just temporary. I agree. It's very weird. I don't know what you're expecting here with Gardner Minshew, but I can't expect too much. It's one thing when he comes into a game. It's another thing when he's the starter. It's kind of that Ryan Fitzpatrick circle, which is the second Ryan Fitzpatrick reference here in the show. So that's it. It's not a bad one. Minshew top five backup in the NFL, but Arizona going into the season. Knew this, paid Brissette, and now have sent him to another team. Just, I don't know what the foresight was here, really, with Arizona, but they should lose every game the rest of the year. They want to lose every game, I would guess, the rest of the year if they could.