Twitter: Brett Hundley visiting Cowboys

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Some vet will be cut in pre-season I'm sure, just wait and see. Has to be someone better than Hundley.
 
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IIR, Gilbert played one game and loss, right? So what's so special about him? Opinions vary, I get that, but I just don't understand the love for Gilbert. Especially when Dinucci has more upside. But neither Gilbert nor DiNucci should be the backup this year, IMO. I really hope we can find someone better than both.
 
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They need a camp arm for OTAs and TC. That's all this signing would be about.
 
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SeanLee50 said:
He’s a McCarthy guy. Gilbert is good but he will be 30 in July. Not sure how they view him long term
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I feel like people confuse the fact that we were competitive in the Steelers game with thinking Gilbert played particularly well. Thing is: he didn't really. He completed 55% of his passes and had a passer rating of 72. Those are both bad numbers in this day and age. Just 3rd stringer stuff. Which was fine in 2020 when our 1st and 2nd stringer were both injured. But penciling him in at #2 to begin with seems bad to me.

He's an okay backup-to-the-backup option in a pinch. He didn't totally wilt and he allowed the team to compete, which is fine. But we should really have much more interesting irons in the fire. Gilbert should be roughly what he was in 2020, which was a Plan C or Plan D type of option. Him being Plan B heading into camp behind the #1 guy (especially in a year when the #1 is coming off a nasty injury) seems like a bad call. But who knows, maybe he looked amazing in practice and the team thinks he only performed poorly in the Steelers game because of the caliber of the defense.

It's sad to me that we didn't bag a really good backup QB this year. We were in a position where we might have been able to pull off what New Orleans got into the habit of doing in recent years, where they pulled arguably the best possible backup several times because guys who were on the fringes between backup and starter knew that it was a cushy offense to play in and knew there was a decent chance they'd get a nice little showcase if Brees missed any bit of time.

With our cushy offense (Dalton was able to manage a passer rating in the high 80's and the 2nd best completion percentage of his entire career despite playing behind mostly 2nd and 3rd string linemen) and our starting QB coming back from a severe injury, I wished we'd landed a serious player with starting aspirations (and good starting experience to boot) who saw the upside in potentially getting a chance to step in and look like a starter here if he sees the field. A guy who figured he'd come here, maybe get a nice 4-game showcase at some point, look like a starter and land himself a fat contract.
 
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He’s like pretty much every other backup journeyman QB. Garbage.
 
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SSoup said:
I feel like people confuse the fact that we were competitive in the Steelers game with thinking Gilbert played particularly well. Thing is: he didn't really. He completed 55% of his passes and had a passer rating of 72. Those are both bad numbers in this day and age. Just 3rd stringer stuff. Which was fine in 2020 when our 1st and 2nd stringer were both injured. But penciling him in at #2 to begin with seems bad to me.

He's an okay backup-to-the-backup option in a pinch. He didn't totally wilt and he allowed the team to compete, which is fine. But we should really have much more interesting irons in the fire. Gilbert should be roughly what he was in 2020, which was a Plan C or Plan D type of option. Him being Plan B heading into camp behind the #1 guy (especially in a year when the #1 is coming off a nasty injury) seems like a bad call. But who knows, maybe he looked amazing in practice and the team thinks he only performed poorly in the Steelers game because of the caliber of the defense.

It's sad to me that we didn't bag a really good backup QB this year. We were in a position where we might have been able to pull off what New Orleans got into the habit of doing in recent years, where they pulled arguably the best possible backup several times because guys who were on the fringes between backup and starter knew that it was a cushy offense to play in and knew there was a decent chance they'd get a nice little showcase if Brees missed any bit of time.

With our cushy offense (Dalton was able to manage a passer rating in the high 80's and the 2nd best completion percentage of his entire career despite playing behind mostly 2nd and 3rd string linemen) and our starting QB coming back from a severe injury, I wished we'd landed a serious player with starting aspirations (and good starting experience to boot) who saw the upside in potentially getting a chance to step in and look like a starter here if he sees the field. A guy who figured he'd come here, maybe get a nice 4-game showcase at some point, look like a starter and land himself a fat contract.
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Honestly I think people were expecting for him to play a lot worse than he did so when he didn't stink it up it surprised folks. I was expecting a big goose egg on the score board that day. And when he started moving the team up and down the field , I was like......... Pittsburgh is way overrated.
 
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CowboyJ70 said:
. Yuck. I would rather sign Jeff Driskel or just go with GG.
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this is either MM doing hundley a favor, to be a camp guy who will be cut later, or he thinks hundley could be a better # 2 than what he has
currently.
Also jerry prefers vets over unknowns with little nfl experience. He would have kept Dalton if he would have signed for another year cheap.
Hundley played years ago, lol so I guess they think it is 2015 hundley.

Many here liked Gilbert, but I dont think jerry does.
 
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SSoup said:
I feel like people confuse the fact that we were competitive in the Steelers game with thinking Gilbert played particularly well. Thing is: he didn't really. He completed 55% of his passes and had a passer rating of 72. Those are both bad numbers in this day and age. Just 3rd stringer stuff. Which was fine in 2020 when our 1st and 2nd stringer were both injured. But penciling him in at #2 to begin with seems bad to me.
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you cant go by #s lol.
GG had only been on the team a few weeks, no TC no offseason, no starting reps till the week he had to start, was still learning the offense,
and no familiarity with the off players.
He should be much better by the time sept rolls around, and also could get some playing time in PS.
All that matters.
 
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