kungfoodude

Nate Silver's QBERT metric has him squarely as the "Replacement Level" tier.

The FA situations we blundered but most of the best available guys would not have come here. Darnold would have never panned out here. Mayfield could have. That was the biggest miss of the Tepper era.

Gunslingerly kind of guy. I would be fine taking a look at him but it would be in a scenario with a dependable veteran on the roster.

He is just Jameis Winston. He can't manage a game and he rarely will ever win a game. He will however be directly responsible for losing games. The truth is those old style gunslingers are just hard to work with because they put defenses in such bad positions too often. You have to win in spite of them which is basically what we are trying to avoid now. It's not an accident that they both have career 0.414 and 0.316 winning percentages as starting QB's. Also not a surprise that while both are under 32 they have already been on 4+ NFL teams. Not against bringing in a Winston/Howell but it would need to be in a 2-4 QB competition situation. Those guys are impossible to count on going into a season.

That would be 2027.

Absolutely not. They are not worth a 7th.

He would probably be close to the last guy I would take on that list. Get a decent veteran bridge and start spamming rookie QB's when they are BPA. Build the team and just figure it out. Maybe if we build a very good team that is MISSING a good QB then we can be an attractive spot for FA older QB's that still have some life left in them.

D. Watson, Stafford(unlikely), Mayfield(never gonna happen), 2023 QB Rookies, Davis Mills, Brissett, Mac Jones, Will Levis, Drew Lock

Mac Jones is under contract in 2026. The "projected" available QB's are: https://overthecap.com/free-agency Rodgers will not be interested. Wilson is not likely to be interested. Of the remaining, I would contact Mariota, Taylor, Z. Wilson, Flacco, Pickett, Trubisky, K. Allen, Bridgewater, Minshew. Find one of them, draft a QB on Day 2 or 3. Roll with whomever wins a spot on the roster between Bryce(assuming you can't trade him), Dalton, Vet QB and Rookie QB.

They understand it is a business.

Not gonna happen. Would incur an almost $100 mil dead cap hit. They are stuck with him for at least two more seasons, most likely.

Brother, there have been numerous times in even recent NFL history that QB changes have improved the morale of an NFL team. No one is more painfully aware of how much they can help or harm a team than a player on that team. Doesn't mean they have to not support them or hate them. They have the same discussioms behind closed doors and between each other as we do. They know better than anyone else. You are not gonna see any more of a morale drop from rotating other QB's in there than you would if we keep losing with Bryce at the helm. It's the losing and lack of success that kills morale more than anything else.

Lewis performed so poorly he lost his starting job in the preseason after being named starter AND after being traded for a 3rd and 4th round pick. I have never seen anything like that preseason in 2001. It was insane.

I will take a look at it tomorrow and see if I can find the worst 3-4 QB's. I think probably only 1st-3rd round is reasonable. It was obvious in college he had a noodle arm.

Yeah. Bryce is pure ass but this is recency bias. The Clausen era was so fuging bad. I'll throw Weinke out there too as another drafted QB that was worse than Bryce has been so far. Speaking of, I wonder if many franchises can beat the pure shittiness of the Pickles/Weinke/Young combo of drafted QB's since 1995?

He is just bad. No amount of wishing and hoping is gonna fix it. Nothing we can do about it, man. Just another on a crazy pile of terrible WR's this franchise has drafted.

Strange that he is the only WR that fails so completely so often across his 1.5 seasons here, however.

I think you are either forgetting how bad Pickles was or using hyperbole.

That formula leads to success less than 30% of the time. That's not a formula I would be concerned about staying with.

Bryce isn't an NFL QB. That's the big issue. These guys aren't either but a couple of them have had more successful NFL careers to date.

Fair but everything in this thread is an opinion aside from that he is a bust. That's a fact.

Literally false starts everywhere.

XL has never cared much about this. He "made it" on social media and that's ehat he cares about. Not football. That's just going through the motions for a paycheck.

I think they should see value in trying to win. Continuing with Bryce is the opposite of that. If Canales still believes in Bryce, he can leave with him, IMO.

Probably was awkward when he couldn't understand some of the completely moronic questions Tepper asked. Or when he replied with football related things Tepper didn't understand.