Khyber53

There's a lot of truth here, but at the same time, that one year of production we might be paying for is actually paying for a development arc. And a lot of players have those. QB is the most complicated position in sports, hands down. I'm not saying Bryce will make it past the hump this year, the odds are stacked against him just like any QB in the league that isn't already considered an elite player (and there are only about 5-8 of those at most). Arcs happen, and slow arcs happen, too. Sam Darnold seemed a wash up for the Jets and a horrible mistake. He was better with us, but still couldn't carry a bad team on his shoulders (or bad coaching). He went to Minnesota and got a shot under better coaching with more mature eyes to see the field. Something sparked and then he took his team to the Super Bowl and brought home a ring. Baker Mayfield had a similar arc, and may yet hit the big game. Hell, locally, Jake Delhomme had one. Or Bryce could flutter back down having already hit his peak. It happens. More often than any of us want to admit. We've paid for a full development arc for Bryce, but we've had it on rookie deal rates and that's been a savings that has let us build out the rest of the team, which was really needed. Maybe we end up diving back into the QB pool in the first round next season. Might be the guy, might not. But he'll be set up with a better team that Bryce was when he started. Or maybe, just maybe, Bryce adds another seven TDs and loses four INTs on the season. Grabs three more wins and maybe a playoff win, maybe two. It's not completely impossible and that'd be great for the team and for him. We're just going to have to tune in and see how it plays out. Probably won't be boring.

Ain't it the truth? I finally dug my feet in and settled on my old hotmail account. I know it brands me as Gen-X, but what the hell do I care?

I'm old. Don't make me start another gmail account.

Tried to update mine, but says that my current email address is currently in use by another user. Must be when I left a long time ago and came back, but couldn't remember my old password and just made a new user name. Guess I'm screwed now.

Alright man! We're here for it! Just glad you're keeping the doors open!

I think we've seen improvement in Bryce's performance. It still isn't up to world beater status, but in Canales defense, he can say that the limitations of the player were hit. I think he survives that even if Bryce doesn't. Still, I think it's a 50/50 shot for Bryce to make it. QB is one of the toughest jobs to do in the sports world, if not the most, so the failure rate is really high, no matter the pedigree. Heck, Archie Manning gets a lot of credit as a great QB but anyone who saw his career in motion knows he wasn't really that good and he was surrounded by bottom of the bowl players. He did get it figured out with his sons, though. That grandson... maybe.

Compared to other fifth year starting QBs... it is. After that, who knows what happens?

Their use of the phrase questionable QB situation fits perfectly. He is stuck, for the moment at least, in a situation with Bryce that he can't really get out of. There have been improvements for Young, but he hasn't been a world changer. He had horrible coaching first year and was saddled with a broken down remnant of what had been an afterthought team anyway. There's one year left to keep him on the cheap with the idea that if he cranks out a great season, we've got first dibs on him for the next. If he tanks out, then off to free agency Young goes to either a QB whisperer-type situation or becomes a fairly battle tested back up QB. And we get something to add into our compensatory picks formulation. This is a make or break year for Young, but not for Morgan or Canales.

Um, okay. Wasn't he a Matt Rhule product?

If he does manage to do it, will you shut up about him? If he doesn't do it, I'm going to wish him well in the back-up QB roll he'll fall into somewhere and be looking forward to our next attempt at answering the QB question.

10 wins, 30 TDs, 10 INT. It's a stat line that says he's made it. Below there and well, then he's not going to get you any deeper into the playoffs. Better than that? I mean, you'd have to take it at face value and think he's grown into the role. We've got to remember that it took Cam like four years to get the team to the Super Bowl. And he was a much, much bigger guy with a rocket launcher arm. Not every QB comes out born like that. Of course, it only took Jake one afternoon in the hot Tampa sun to break loose from the nobodies and to a Super Bowl trajectory. That just proves that experts judging someone on their first four years in the league are sometimes incredibly fuging wrong about a QB. Just saying.

Don't get me started. We should have stuck with Wilks. That was the first bit of spine I'd seen in the team in a very long time.

Most of the "best" QBs come after that point because they are going to better teams. That #1 pick comes with the knowledge you are walking into a trainwreck. You know, like we were. And even for transcendent QBs, it takes time, seasons, to get it back on track. Tough job, but so many dollars.