For the Arizona Cardinals the odd holdout from their starter who finished with a 1-11 record has created a lot of conversation around the idea of bumping up his pay.<\/p>\n
While everyone looks at it from the perspective of if he is the starter once again heading into the season, he deserves to be paid more than his current amount, but there is always this weird caveat.<\/p>\n
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The caveat showed up in NFL.com\u2019s piece on the quarterback<\/a> battles in the NFL, where the Cardinals quarterback battle was highlighted, and they came to the same conclusion almost everyone has as well:<\/p>\n PREDICTED OUTCOME:\u00a0Brissett gets a raise and starts in Week 1; Beck eventually starts several games.<\/p>\n There was a lot of good analysis in there as well, so I highly recommend checking out the full article, but I wanted to just focus on the predicted outcome, which seems nearly universal from most fans\/pundits.<\/p>\n If the outcome that let\u2019s just say 98% of people are expecting is that Beck starts games this year, which is almost going to assuredly happen because the team is bad, then what exactly are the Cardinals paying Brissett for?<\/p>\n If the expectation is that Brissett won\u2019t play the whole season, then I guess the question for the Cardinals becomes\u2026 what is the point?<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n You unfortunately made it obvious this offseason that you hade other people in mind at the position, making overtures with both Malik Willis<\/a> and Jimmy Garoppolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n