By the numbers
Washington Redskins
The Redskins have a quarterback carousel going every year mostly because of injuries. This year RGIII has been said to be the week 1 starter, but should he be?
Robert Griffin III (age 25): Griffin started his career immensely strong finishing with over 3,000 yards in his first two seasons. Injury and the lack of an offensive line soon crippled the savior of the skins. In 2014 RGIII barely cracked 1,000 yards and for the first time in his career had more interceptions than touchdowns. One must question his confidence after two injury plagued campaigns. Is he secure in his knee, can he learn to trust himself again, so far it remains to be seen.
Colt McCoy (age: 28): McCoy had one of his worst years statistically but as a third string backup it is hard to imagine him getting a lot of playing time. His biggest moment of the season came against the Dallas Cowboys mounting a surprise comeback to help get the W. McCoy has never started a full 16 games for one NFL team and currently is only sitting on a +2 ratio for touchdowns to interceptions. McCoy does not appear to be the long term answer for the Redskins.
Kirk Cousins (age 26): Cousins best year was 2014 when he supplanted the injured RGIII as the primary starter for the Redskins. Cousins has had more interceptions than touchdowns at this point in his career but it can be argued that he is still relatively young. Cousin's quarterback rating has been all over the map thanks to his erratic amounts of starts per season but if he wants to he can build off of last season and potentially become the starter once again for the Redskins.
The bottom line is the Redskins do not have any elite quarterbacks on their team as of right now. The best course of action is to draft a new starting quarterback and keep Cousins as your back up. RGIII can be great and he has shown that, but that was also two surgeries ago, it's time for a change.
Philadelphia Eagles
Chip Kelly is only one trade away from starting a dumpster fire.
Mark Sanchez (age 28): The Sanchise did take the Jets to the playoffs at one point so he is probably the most decorated and experienced quarterback on the roster. He is currently +2 for touchdown to interception ratio which is surprising to say the least. Sanchez's stats suggest that he should be the starting quarterback; the numbers do not leave anything to question.
Sam Bradford (age 27): It still boggles my mind to why Chip Kelly would trade Nick Foles for Bradford straight up, and injured player for a healthy one; it isn't smart any way you look at it. Foles was coming off of several good Eagle's campaigns and was beginning to look like he was gaining momentum in the Eagle's offense. Now he has Bradford who has 4 NFL seasons under his belt and was fully healthy for only two of them. His touchdown to interception totals for those seasons he made it through 16 games are comparable to an average year by Eli Manning. Bradford has not really accomplished anything but the Rams had very few weapons in that time much like the Eagles have now. He might be the best fit as a starter but when you see his competition it is not a mystery why people are more excited to see Bradford than Sanchez.
Matt Barkley (age 24): Barkley has never had an NFL touchdown and currently holds 4 interceptions in his career.
Tim Tebow (age 27): Tebow has yet to play a full season as a starting quarterback; however he has the best touchdown to interception ratio out of any of the Eagles quarterbacks. Tebow's quarterback rating is worrisome because it seems to get worse the more he plays, but he should definitely start if it came down to him or Barkley.
The Eagles trade away a healthy quarterback for an injured one, Shady McCoy because his contract was too expensive; then pay Ryan Mathews and DeMarco Murray two highly injury prone running backs more money than they would have given to McCoy. They don't resign Jeremy Maclin and have proceeded to give Sam Bradford or whoever needs it, ABSOLUTELY NO HELP. They also release most of their starting offensive line which no resembles Washington's; at least Washington drafted an offensive lineman in the first round.
New York Giants
The Giants have had the roughest offseason of any NFL except for the San Francisco 49ers, yikes. With that said it has become pretty evident that Eli Manning will have to lead this team like never before, but can it be done?
Eli Manning (age 34): Manning had such a rough 2013 no one noticed his averaged 2014. Manning is a 2 time Super Bowl winning quarterback but not because of skill. Let's face it you can have the best quarterback in the world and this does not guarantee a championship at all, ask the Packers. Manning at best averages 27 touchdowns and 15 interceptions a season which is better than many quarterbacks out there. But Manning is not elite he is manageable especially when the Giants have a run game, it is rare that he has success when the game is on his shoulders with the two obvious exceptions being the two Super Bowls he has won. When Manning's time is up which could be as soon as 2016 with his contract ending it will mark an end of an era not only for the Giants but for the entire NFC East.
Ryan Nassib (age 25): Has never officially started a game for the Giants.
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys surprised everyone last year with their dominant offensive line; look for more quarterback play in 2015.
Tony Romo (age 35): Romo is coming off of his best season statistically as he beat out Aaron Rodgers for the top quarterback rating in the NFL. Make no mistake about it Romo is elite; his career passer rating is 97.6 and completes 65.2 percent of his passes. To put that into perspective Aaron Rodgers career completion rate is 65.8 and his career passer rating is 106.0. Romo probably needs one more season and either a Championship or several deep playoff runs before we start talking about HoF status but his numbers are right on track. This will be the first season in quite a long time were Romo can participate in offseason conditioning and workouts, let's see if all of that extra work will count towards a Super Bowl.
Brandon Weeden (age 31): Brandon Weeden is a career backup quarterback plain and simple. He always plays with less fire than the starters in this league and the one chance he did have to show off some of his skills he completely dropped the ball. Weeden's career touchdown to interception ratio is in the red and Dallas is hoping that they will not have to rely on Weeden, but if they ever had to make a change look at Dustin Vaughan.
Dustin Vaughan (age 24): Officially we have never seen him play a regular season game.
If the Cowboys want to win a Super Bowl they are going to need to do it using Romo and every ounce of talent on that roster. Romo has been the Cowboys best quarterback for years; he holds all of the team passing records. When Romo goes the Cowboys will either draft a new quarterback or pick up a certified starter in free agency to not lose their footing in the NFC East.
