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

[Dingo_ate_Babies]

He’s an exclusive rights FA, which means he can only play for us and his contract is set in stone. He cannot negotiate salary or play elsewhere unless we choose not to resign. No brainer to keep at a cheap rate. We resign to market rates down the road.

As for Legette, it’s just a matter of time before he’s shown the door. He has 2 more seasons with us left unless we trade him. At this point, it’s unlikely he develops into anything more than a 3rd receiver.

[MtnJax]

42 minutes ago, PootieNunu said:

That means Bryce will still be the unquestioned starter....ughhh....

The sooner this board accepts the FO is never gonna do exactly what the Huddle wants, when they want it, the better off y'all will be

[toldozer]

23 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

An undrafted FA shouldn't be too expensive.

I think there is some sort of restriction on the salary he's not just open for business with every team. I could be wrong but I think basically if we want him we don't have to pay him like a number 2 wr

[toldozer]

3 minutes ago, Dingo_ate_Babies said:

He’s an exclusive rights FA, which means he can only play for us and his contract is set in stone. He cannot negotiate salary or play elsewhere unless we choose not to resign. No brainer to keep at a cheap rate. We resign to market rates down the road.

As for Legette, it’s just a matter of time before he’s shown the door. He has 2 more seasons with us left unless we trade him. At this point, it’s unlikely he develops into anything more than a 3rd receiver.

They need to try all off-season to turn XL into deebo. If he wasn't dumb as a box of rocks I think he could excel with his attributes 

[outlaw4]

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.

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[Mike2.0]

54 minutes ago, PootieNunu said:

That means Bryce will still be the unquestioned starter....ughhh....

Did you honestly expect an open competition? 

Bryce has made progress this season, perhaps not as much as we’d like, but he’s done enough to warrant another year. He’ll arguably never silence the doubters, nor will he ever overcome his shortcomings, but for the time being he’s the guy until someone in the front office decides otherwise. 

Now that doesn’t mean we can’t or won’t draft a quarterback that is better suited to running the offense when Bryce misses time, but we were never going to sign, trade for, or draft his replacement after this season. The only time that would have happened is if he struggled this season and the team lost a ton of games and ended up with a top pick. At that point we’d have been looking for at least a new HC and QB.

[45catfan]

Best to lock him up now before he's gets to real FA.  

[Dingo_ate_Babies]

10 minutes 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.

He got drafted because he played at South Carolina and is from the area. This has been common theme for awhile to reach for a guy because he’s local. We need to honestly get away from constantly targeting USC players because it rarely works out. JC is one of the few that actually panned out.

[Castavar]

53 minutes ago, toldozer said:

We have to luck in to a brock purdy situation and Bryce having to miss time and it has to happen before they sign young long term. I have to think yesterday insured that they pick up the 5th year option which I don't think he could have played poorly enough for that not to happen anyway. If tepper truly doesn't want mediocrity Bryce cannot be the long term answer. Too many young quarterbacks in the league that are WAYYY better than him to think he could beat 4 of them in a row for a Superbowl 

Agreed. I think that what we saw this year is pretty much the ceiling for the Canales/Bryce combo. 

[PadresPanthersFan]

1 hour ago, TN05 said:

Bounce back to what? 500 yards and 4 tds?

[Castavar]

19 minutes ago, Mike2.0 said:

Did you honestly expect an open competition? 

Bryce has made progress this season, perhaps not as much as we’d like, but he’s done enough to warrant another year. He’ll arguably never silence the doubters, nor will he ever overcome his shortcomings, but for the time being he’s the guy until someone in the front office decides otherwise. 

Now that doesn’t mean we can’t or won’t draft a quarterback that is better suited to running the offense when Bryce misses time, but we were never going to sign, trade for, or draft his replacement after this season. The only time that would have happened is if he struggled this season and the team lost a ton of games and ended up with a top pick. At that point we’d have been looking for at least a new HC and QB.

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. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

9 minutes ago, Castavar said:

Agreed. I think that what we saw this year is pretty much the ceiling for the Canales/Bryce combo. 

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.

[ProcessBlue2]

Don’t think XL will be here. Can’t see them continuing to waste time on him when they reduced his reps so much. Dan probably gets rid of him for a 3rd or 4th to somebody like Cleveland or Tennessee

[toldozer]

13 minutes ago, PadresPanthersFan said:

Bounce back to what? 500 yards and 4 tds?

That would be glorious