Okay gentlemen, REAL talk...

[Jon Snow]

4 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

This has nothing to do with liking Bryce. We need a new backup. We needed one last year. We need to look at a young QB in the draft as well in case 4th year Bryce is the same as 1st 3 years Bryce. Improve the QB room. Don't settle and be complacent. Do what's best for the team as a whole. 

I think all of us want that. Whether that happens is anyone's guess. 

[Basbear]

53 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://x.com/kellibartik/status/1995247383870050422?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

[45catfan]

I could care less about the 5th year option, it's all but assured, even before today.  What will piss me off is if we lock him up for his second contract.   Paying Bryce Young $50M a year is freaking ludicrous. 

[Mr. Scot]

10 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

This has nothing to do with liking Bryce. We need a new backup. We needed one last year. We need to look at a young QB in the draft as well in case 4th year Bryce is the same as 1st 3 years Bryce. Improve the QB room. Don't settle and be complacent. Do what's best for the team as a whole. 

Already said I think we get a better backup than Dalton next year.

Whether that guy will be high enough quality to serve as competition for the starting role? Not counting on it. 

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, 45catfan said:

I could care less about the 5th year option, it's all but assured, even before today.  What will piss me off is if we lock him up for his second contract.   Paying Bryce Young $50M a year is freaking ludicrous. 

I'm preparing for them to do just that. I sure as hell hope it works out but my gut tells me its impossible. 

[KillerKat]

We are stuck in purgatory.

[Mr. Scot]

22 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

I could care less about the 5th year option, it's all but assured, even before today.  What will piss me off is if we lock him up for his second contract.   Paying Bryce Young $50M a year is freaking ludicrous. 

It is possible he plays well enough to actually earn it.

I don't think that'll happen, but...

Edited 22 minutes ago by Mr. Scot

[tukafan21]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

It is possible he plays well enough to actually earn it.

I don't think that'll happen, but...

I do not think it's at all possible for him to play well enough to earn that contract this offseason.

He could play lights out the rest of the season and we win the division and I still don't think he'd have earned it.  That would have earned the 5th year being picked up no question (something I don't think he's earned as of now), but not a big extension.

He's 2.5 years into his career and still only has a handful of good to great games, even a real strong finish to this season where he's been very up and down until now, isn't worthy of a $40+ million contract.

Actually play lights out the rest of the year and I admit he earned the 5th year being picked up, but short of him being the reason for an actual SB run this year, there's nothing he can do to make me say he's earned an extension.  He'd need to prove it for a full season next year to say he's earned that.

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

I do not think it's at all possible for him to play well enough to earn that contract this offseason.

He could play lights out the rest of the season and we win the division and I still don't think he'd have earned it.  That would have earned the 5th year being picked up no question (something I don't think he's earned as of now), but not a big extension.

He's 2.5 years into his career and still only has a handful of good to great games, even a real strong finish to this season where he's been very up and down until now, isn't worthy of a $40+ million contract.

Actually play lights out the rest of the year and I admit he earned the 5th year being picked up, but short of him being the reason for an actual SB run this year, there's nothing he can do to make me say he's earned an extension.  He'd need to prove it for a full season next year to say he's earned that.

I didn't think he'd make it through this season.

One point someone else made though was that his year two was better than his year one, and his year three was even better than year two.

So what happens in year four?

I don't think it's likely, but right now I can't really deny it's possible.