Please DM, do not see Dalton failing as BY doing well enough for a big contract

[d-dave]

8 hours ago, strato said:

 Bryce needs to play the NFL game. That is the job. Can he do it or not do it? 

Very fair point.  I guess when Bryce get's to play spreadout, that works for him, but Canales won't do that because it's not going to hold up for a 17 game season.  

To me, this has always been a make or break year for Bryce.  Year 3, you need to know what you have.  We just don't have a full time, starting NFL QB.  I will hedge that on the fact that he's only 24 years old.  It's a small hedge, maybe just a shrubbery at this point since Bryce has had three full training camps as QB1.

I guess I'm struggling with the balance between patience and performance.  My desire is to be patient since he's 24, but he's also had plenty of time to improve.  I just don't want to use send him off for peanuts and watch him reach his potential elsewhere.

[strato]

5 minutes ago, d-dave said:

Very fair point.  I guess when Bryce get's to play spreadout, that works for him, but Canales won't do that because it's not going to hold up for a 17 game season.  

To me, this has always been a make or break year for Bryce.  Year 3, you need to know what you have.  We just don't have a full time, starting NFL QB.  I will hedge that on the fact that he's only 24 years old.  It's a small hedge, maybe just a shrubbery at this point since Bryce has had three full training camps as QB1.

I guess I'm struggling with the balance between patience and performance.  My desire is to be patient since he's 24, but he's also had plenty of time to improve.  I just don't want to use send him off for peanuts and watch him reach his potential elsewhere.

I understand the sentiment that you don’t want to drop him and get burned. 
I say he needs to definitively prove himself and we have plenty of games left for him do that. 
As far as him burning us, he won’t get near the rope elsewhere that he has gotten here so if he is going to burn us he will need to do it definitively at his new place, which is really the same thing I am asking for. 

Edited 12 hours ago by strato

[PNW_PantherMan]

3 hours ago, d-dave said:

Very fair point.  I guess when Bryce get's to play spreadout, that works for him, but Canales won't do that because it's not going to hold up for a 17 game season.  

To me, this has always been a make or break year for Bryce.  Year 3, you need to know what you have.  We just don't have a full time, starting NFL QB.  I will hedge that on the fact that he's only 24 years old.  It's a small hedge, maybe just a shrubbery at this point since Bryce has had three full training camps as QB1.

I guess I'm struggling with the balance between patience and performance.  My desire is to be patient since he's 24, but he's also had plenty of time to improve.  I just don't want to use send him off for peanuts and watch him reach his potential elsewhere.

As much as I think he has no shot, that possibility does exist.  I would think of it like this.  If he does somehow turn his career own elsewhere.  It was never going to happen in this organization with these people running it.  We need a guy with batteries included.  And new a coaching staff.

[countryboi]

You know his name is just Dan right? like how hard was it to say either GM or Dan but who the hell is DM?