Dave Canales says Jalen Coker is our tentative #2 next season

[Jon Snow]

8 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Next year has regression written all over it.  QB room remains unchanged.  Canales stumbles like usual.  But we don't get the breaks to get 8 wins out of -70 point differential.  And even if we did, it wouldn't make the playoffs 9 years out of 10.

Unless we stumble into a better QB in late draft or cheap FA, I don't like the odds for next year.

I agree with everything you said. Its not going to get easier for Dave and Young next season. I see a top 10 pick in our future. 

[ProcessBlue2]

1 hour ago, outlaw4 said:

It's becoming more clear that this team didn't really know what they were thinking in drafting XL because he's not a good fit with Bryce at all. We've seen it with guys like Thielen and Moore that you give him a receiver that knows the fundamentals of the position well enough, he can at least get production out of them. XL is the complete opposite, a guy that came in super raw and even now, struggles with basics like knowing where the boundary is and running the route correctly. That and he just seems to play slow, almost like he has to think about what to do rather than just playing naturally. Nothing against the man, but I find it hard to see how he's going to work out here.

We should have known when he told everyone who was going to draft him

[Pejorative Miscreant]

2 hours ago, WarPanthers89 said:

Draft position means nothing now. 

And the head coach just refered to him as the #2 receiver.  I think he and his agent will likely start there for comparisons

 

[csx]

2 hours ago, WarPanthers89 said:

Draft position means nothing now. 

As an ERFA it means everything.

 

Exclusive rights free agent (ERFA)

Any player with fewer than three accrued seasons and an expired contract. If his original team offers him a one-year contract at the league minimum (based on his credited seasons), the player cannot negotiate with other teams.

Edited 1 hour ago by csx

[Mike2.0]

1 hour ago, Castavar said:

Which is insane to me because we've seen teams that WERE IN THE SUPERBOWL get rid of their QB for somebody better. We've seen teams with cemented franchise QBs draft another QB in the 1st 3 rounds. There is absolutely zero reason for us to go into next year with NO competition either through FA or draft. 

Examples?

Jared Goff seems to be the most prominent example. They moved him and brought in Matthew Stafford, which has worked wonders for them. I’m not sure there’s that caliber of QB available this offseason.

I guess the 49ers count as they moved on from Garoppolo, but Purdy was not meant to be ‘the guy’, that role was meant to be Trey Lance who they traded up to draft 3rd overall. 

The Eagles won a Super Bowl with Nick Foles while Carson Wentz was injured, then drafted a high upside back in Hurfs who ended up replacing Wentz, but it was fairly clear by that point that Wentz wasn’t the guy.

Generally a team with a cemented franchise QB isn’t drafting and holding a competition. They are drafting them to be a backup and developmental prospect, or they are drafting the successor as their franchise QB is coming towards the end of their career. In our case, we could draft someone to backup Bryce and keep him on his toes, but there won’t be an open competition for the role, it would be well and truly Bryce’s job to lose with poor play.

[csx]

3 hours ago, RJK said:

gotta pay him first 

League minimum 

[Carolina Cajun]

XL got the GADOOSH, but doesnt have the game day work ethic.  XL is done in carolina, and that sucks because XL the guy seems amazing, but XL the player is absolutely useless.