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People might be talking about prioritizing drafting some. We need to turn some of these salaries over. Get some young cheap guys in place of 100 million commitments. In the next couple of years.

Kind of partial to him myself.

I had other QBs I was interested in and had no interest in Picket. Don’t ask me I can’t explain it. I will say if the team is good enough to win with Bryce it is probably good enough to win with Picket.

How many high level passing games did he produce last season? What is your number? I am going to say it wasn’t enough using my standards, and was a low enough number that he needs to more than double it. I’d just be curious to see what your baseline is. I might be able to hold up 5 fingers. Give or take. He had good games vs the Rams secondary but you see what they thought of their secondary. They signed the poo out of new people as fast as they could. Atlanta one killer game. I can’t say the first game was much. But maybe. Dallas was a real nice win I thought he played well. I go through them and there just aren’t that many. Even if you get to 7 that you think show he deserves the contract if that is his norm, his standard that he will give us, there is a long way to go. I feel like every game needs to have us expecting excellence. Above average. You can’t be perfect so missing a couple is okay but not like, 10.

Well we should be at a crossroads like, about right now. I say show your stuff enough to win us a bunch of games. 17 games I want to see the QB play really well at least 13 or 14 of those games to accept that he is legit going forward. But I don’t get to say. I am not saying no to a young QB I am just not wanting to do it to prove some point. He needs to be legit as well as far as potential or why are we doing it?

If they love someone and truly think they can develop him, and are sold… okay. Don’t want to say no to that, I’d actually like to see what that looks like. Otherwise just recycle another of these failed higher pick FAs through a backup competition.

Beason was a fine player.

Well, for QB next year, we have this year to look at Bryce. Again. He is starting and they aren’t working on alternatives. As of now he is starting this year. 100%, barring injury. They got someone they think can run the offense for backup. To challenge Andy lol. Their intentions are, we have another year of Bryce. I don’t need them to force it and waste a pick on a QB especially if they believe next year looks way better. So that being the case, in my mind, unless someone they love just falls to us later in the draft I don’t know that I care if they take someone this year, just to take someone. I wouldn’t object, I just don’t think it is something to prioritize. We are just in that place where he needs to turn the corner, and running out of corners fast. If he truly stinks it up this year or doesn’t show clear progress, I have to trust them to see it.

Bryce has had a couple of games where he top fifteened it. Realize, to be close to top ten he has to do that 4 quarters, probably 15 times with a couple of stinkers thrown in where he is off that day. The good ones, almost all have inexplicable bad days. But overall you have to perform at a high level, dependably, to rate high like that. So that’s what it takes. Otherwise it is a low to mid 20s and people that just can’t do better after a few chances are backups.

Worst player should be the easiest upgrade. I will sweat that later.

Worse than that, if he had not been injured he gets extended and the first year does not have to be 17.4 or whatever the hell his 5th year contract pays. They could have cut it down with the planned extension that did not happen.,

Up front, control that and you are ahead of the game every week. The receiver stuff is Bryce centric. To me, protect Bryce first. We have enough skill position guys that if he is really any good he can make it work. If we protect him.

I have this feeling that our history was part of Morgan’s pitch. Bet he told him all about it. Sam Mills forward. edit: if I wanted to sell a LB on coming here, I would have highlights cut and play it for him. All the way front to back, our history our guys, and tell him we wanted him because we think he can carry it forward.

Well Phillips IS a risk, injury wise. Lloyd? In what world could even a bad version not be a big upgrade at the position compared to the last three years?

This is one of my big sources of entertainment. And I have been entertained.

You got that right.

You could look at it like I look at XL/Coker. Coker offsets the XL error. Dan got Lloyd 5 mil per year cheaper than people estimated. He got Walker way under the estimates. I don’t think Walker is great but given the situation that was good work. Phillips got paid but collectively we made out pretty okay. 10 mil cheaper on Walker and 15 mil cheaper over the contract for Lloyd. That is 20 (oops 25) mil saved apply it to Phillips and you get him for 25 per year x 4. The inferior (we think) guy from the Chargers got 4x25.

Feeling a lot better. Stress is much relieved. I know he isn’t perfect or close, but I was willing to do a multi year deal to address that mess.

If he can do to use what he did to the Cowboys, more power to him.

Pauline has been being mostly right about this stuff for a long time.

S, ILB, DT or DE. Maybe if a viable LT plummets down to us, you do that. I haven’t seen anyone listed near 19 at C. I absolutely do not want a TE or a WR at 19 and will be hoping we don’t do that. Maybe trade down would be good. The top of the second looks pretty fertile to me. I would be good with getting something we could use to get into that area a couple of times.

I saw something a couple of pages back I really had to restrain myself from replying to, on that front. I typed paragraphs of rebuttal stuff and did not hit send.

Wow he actually pretends to consider week 1 for Icky as realistic? That is highly questionable judgement right there.

There is the Norfolk Canyon bottom, and then there is the Mariana Trench. But whatever, I just wanted them to remove the big excuses of a bad OL like we saw happen after 2023. They have given this kid or tried to give him everything you could ask for. We don’t need to be feeling like we need yet another year of wait and see after 2026. We need to see, now.

Maybe. I am hoping they will get ahead of it with a rookie to develop this year. Money in that OL, just too much to add to it. I thought we’d get stuck for more years and more money too. And don’t think he is on par with Icky. We had Nothing though, so I am just really relieved today.