This Bryce Guy (General BY Discussion)

[45catfan]

40 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

I will say it fir the 100th time.  Picking up the 5th year option makes no sense and is fuging stupid 

It buys us time (if needed), that's all. An extension makes no sense.  We are not moving on from Bryce for the '26 season, everyone knows that. The 5th year option gives us some flexibility for '27 for a crazy scenario for not being able to find his replacement.  He's the fallback plan if everything else fails, period.

[mrcompletely11]

23 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

It buys us time (if needed), that's all. An extension makes no sense.  We are not moving on from Bryce for the '26 season, everyone knows that. The 5th year option gives us some flexibility for '27 for a crazy scenario for not being able to find his replacement.  He's the fallback plan if everything else fails, period.

How does it buy you time?  Generally asking here

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, mrcompletely11 said:

How does it buy you time?  Generally asking here

Do you agree the team is all in on Bryce this coming season?  I'm not talking about token competition, unless you think the front office will bring in a serious competitor that could unseat Bryce. That's not happening.

Working under that assumption that Bryce is going to be the unquestioned starter next fall, that leaves him working essentially on a one-year deal for '27 unless we are stupid enough to give him an extension. We can look for a new QB in FA and/or the draft without having  reach, settle, make a rash decision.  If all else fails, we still have Bryce to QB us that season.  If we find his replacement, GREAT! He can be a backup, traded or cut.  Even as a Bryce doubter, I would rather have him as the backup plan than not have the 5th year option and have no starting QB going into '27 if the FA QB market sucks or we somehow we can't draft our new franchise QB.

[PootieNunu]

1 hour ago, mrcompletely11 said:

I will say it fir the 100th time.  Picking up the 5th year option makes no sense and is fuging stupid 

Starting this motherfuger for the 4th year in a row and expecting anything different is stupid as fug, but hey its what Tepper decided he wanted. No way real football people are still trotting him out there willingly. 

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, PootieNunu said:

Starting this motherfuger for the 4th year in a row and expecting anything different is stupid as fug, but hey its what Tepper decided he wanted. No way real football people are still trotting him out there willingly. 

He'll do well enough to keep us in the back half of the draft in round 1 for '27 and that's my biggest fear.

[PootieNunu]

2 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

He'll do well enough to keep us in the back half of the draft in round 1 for '27 and that's my biggest fear.

He will do the same as he has the past 3 years, bottom third of the league QB play. 

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, PootieNunu said:

He will do the same as he has the past 3 years, bottom third of the league QB play. 

And the rest of the team?  Yes, QB play is important, but it isn't everything.  I doubt we will have a top 10 pick to get a sure-fire franchise QB. Think big picture.  While the '27 QB class is supposed to be deep, I'm not sure that if we sneak into the playoffs again with like a 9-8 record that even a deep QB class will have a guy around pick 20.

[PootieNunu]

1 minute ago, 45catfan said:

And the rest of the team?  Yes, QB play is important, but it isn't everything.  I doubt we will have a top 10 pick to get a sure-fire franchise QB. Think big picture.  While the '27 QB class is supposed to be deep, I'm not sure that if we sneak into the playoffs again with like a 9-8 record that even a deep QB class will have a guy around pick 20.

I highly doubt we surpass this years win total next season. I think this season was the high point of the DC/BY combo. 

OL is already looking shaky, I expect our D to maybe be a tad better and our O to be a little worse.  I would say 5-7 wins. 

[45catfan]

Just now, PootieNunu said:

I highly doubt we surpass this years win total next season. I think this season was the high point of the DC/BY combo. 

OL is already looking shaky, I expect our D to maybe be a tad better and our O to be a little worse.  I would say 5-7 wins. 

For the sake of this team's greater outlook beyond next season, I hope you are right.  I see the defense taking another step forward and STs are solid. Maybe a shaky OL, but cobbled together units don't always suck.  This roster is getting better...slowly, so I think 5 wins is pretty unrealistic.  The 7 win mark is more likely and with a couple lucky breaks could eclipse that by a game or two.

[PootieNunu]

7 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

For the sake of this team's greater outlook beyond next season, I hope you are right.  I see the defense taking another step forward and STs are solid. Maybe a shaky OL, but cobbled together units don't always suck.  This roster is getting better...slowly, so I think 5 wins is pretty unrealistic.  The 7 win mark is more likely and with a couple lucky breaks could eclipse that by a game or two.

I think with the proper scouting we could upgrade from Bryce pretty easily, you dont always have to draft high to get a good QB. Picking up his 5th year is just throwing away part of our salary cap for production we could get out of basically any cheap QB.

When you insist on starting one of the leagues worst QBs and have only a walking corpse as his backup 5 wins is always possible. 

Edited 17 minutes ago by PootieNunu