I’m not sure people understand how fuging bad it is

[Waldo]

9 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

There's no way a guy with an eye for talent like Morgan's - picking up multiple contributors as UDFAs - that has completely revamped the rest of the roster looks at Young and thinks "Yeah that's what a QB looks like".

He's paying lip service to Young, as is Canales, as that was the agreement they had with Tepper when they both took their respective jobs.

They've both taken a quantum leap in their careers because they were one of the few willing to work with Tepper. 

It's literally the reason he got the job or he wouldn't be Tepper's GM.

Morgan is hit and miss. Look at XL and Tet. Look at his free agent oline guys from 2023 and then 2024 (he was the pro personnel guy in 23). 

The fact is he was happy when Young was drafted and then took the job to prop up Young while knowing all the behind the curtain details. He also has made sure there is no one that can challenge Young on the roster either. Sorry but Dan is all in on the Young disaster. Unfortunately that's a huge negative for me in evaluating Dan. 

[PantherChris]

6 hours ago, CRA said:

Not only that, but on a team that has basically gone organizational all in on offense the last several years 

We have a LOT of talent on the offensive side of the ball IMO, I could easily see our offense having a Colts like turn around with a semi competent QB

[blackcat]

25 minutes ago, rmoneyg35 said:

The problem with replacing Bryce Young is we have to have a QB to replace him with. Dalton isn’t that guy. We have no other young QB on the roster we have been grooming to be a possibility. 
 

so the only options we have are free agency, draft or trade. So we are stuck with Bryce until the end of the year. Problem is we still aren’t guaranteed to find a replacement. The draft is a crapshoot and I don’t see any free agent QBs that look to be much of an upgrade.

we could trade for someone’s back up but I don’t think a lot of teams would want to give up their back up. Then there’s the cost, would you want to  give up a 2nd-3rd round pick for a back up QB?

Honestly I see us getting some other teams scraps and trying to make something out of it. Yes it’s worked before, for example Jake Delhomme, then we seen currently with Baker and Darnold.

Geno Smith is a player I think could be an option. He will have one year left on his contract after this season which should be easy to get out of or for raiders to release him. Hes worked with Canales and knows his offense. Hes an upgrade over Dalton for sure and Bryce  but he’s also capable of a lot of turnovers. The raiders offensive line is horrible right now so I feel like he isn’t nearly as bad as his stats show.

 

At the end of the day he’s just a band aid to a bigger problem we need to fix. 

 

Totally agree.  They have no 'plan b' in the QB room so BY playing the entire season barring injury is going to happen.  Maybe it's some master plan by DC to prove to DT that BY is garbage??  I have no idea who will be available in free agency, but we might be attractive to some FA's with our O line, Tet, and RB situation.  

[Bear Hands]

1 hour ago, electro's horse said:

Guys Bryce has like a 28 inch waist he’s not getting bigger 

If he has kids one day and goes into a full dad bod mode, he'd still just max out at like a 34 waist lol

  

[CRA]

1 hour ago, Stuart Smith said:

Not sure Morgan has had control over what to do with Bryce till now. I am convinced Tepper forced Bryce on this team because of his investment. In retrospect the national spotlight shining on this situation last night may have eliminated any doubt as to what needs to happen moving forward. Morgan had a good draft, but I do think his biggest mistake that he had control over was keeping Andy Dalton. We do not have a capable back up. 

I mean, Tepper is an issue.  I think we use him as the scapegoat for the bad of others though.  We seem to always want it to boil down to 1 guy.  And it sort of contradicts what we know of Tepper.  Tepper is a bad decision maker that moves on from bad decisions.   Nowhere does the Tepper ego have him tripling down on bad mistakes.  That's not his thing. 

I mean, I do believe the reporting of the split in house decision on Bryce.  I think it is logical that that the split was front office and coaches.  Tepper was the audience.  He sided with the front office.  But Scott Fitterer did his sales job on Bryce Young with his team.  Fitterer's team is helping shape Fitterers viewpoint.  Dan Morgan was Fitterer's #1 guy and Dan's current staff all feed the Bryce Young narrative IMO.