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Murray would but those other two guys will absolutely flatten those teams cap. Not realistic or likely. It woulf be far more irresponsible for SF to ditch Purdy, accrue an insane dead cap hit and then sign Jones to a big extension. They could do....nothing. Jones is under contract next year and he is cheap, at that.

Never underestimate this franchises ability to due something extremely stupid. The QB's available aren't likely to improve tremendously just because of the QB contract cycles.

Yes, because you didn't read it.

The Huddle is highly fixated on outlier scenarios which is not particularly productive. Not everyone is Geno Smith. That's extremely rare. I am in the "hedge your bets" camp. Bring in two additional options. Solid veteran bridge/game manager and a younger QB through the draft or from the young bust pile(Lance, Howell, Levis, etc). I would rather throw darts at a dart board than have another Bryce "all in" chip push. Allar would be a solid Day 3 option. Same with Nussmeier and guys like that. It's a very good use of a 5th-7th round pick to try a shot on a QB.

A solid veteran QB that can be at least outside the bottom 20% of NFL starters and a younger drafted QB. I don't have specifics because we have no idea who would be available(or interested) at this point. When that becomes available this offseason, I will definitely post up my "wants." Same with the draft class. I am very down on this class at the moment but it seems deep at #2 QB's.

I am also basing this off of the fact that he has gotten passed around like candy in his extremely short NFL career and the fact that he is largely a 3rd string QB at the moment. The reason they moved on and GOT Daniels was because they recognized he was not going to be a starting caliber QB. Don't forget that he was also part of what was acknowledged to be and almost entirely had been(minus Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy) one of the worst QB classes of the past 20 years. This same thing has happened to Winston recently(only 31) after years as a starter. Gets passed around from team to team each offseason and can't even beat Shell of Russell Wilson out as 2nd string QB. This is just the plight of true gunslingers in the modern era. I have discussed this ad nauseum on the Huddle for probably 4-5 years now. It hasn't changed over that timespan. I am fine with bringing them in to compete or be backups/3rd stringers. But you need to have a real QB plan. If that is the primary plan, it's just going to lead to those 30-40% winning percentages that they come with.

Then he is a yes man and he can go, as well. He will never have success if he bows to the whims of a guy that knows less about football than 95% of the Huddle.

Nate Silver's QBERT metric has him squarely as the "Replacement Level" tier.

The FA situations we blundered but most of the best available guys would not have come here. Darnold would have never panned out here. Mayfield could have. That was the biggest miss of the Tepper era.

Gunslingerly kind of guy. I would be fine taking a look at him but it would be in a scenario with a dependable veteran on the roster.

He is just Jameis Winston. He can't manage a game and he rarely will ever win a game. He will however be directly responsible for losing games. The truth is those old style gunslingers are just hard to work with because they put defenses in such bad positions too often. You have to win in spite of them which is basically what we are trying to avoid now. It's not an accident that they both have career 0.414 and 0.316 winning percentages as starting QB's. Also not a surprise that while both are under 32 they have already been on 4+ NFL teams. Not against bringing in a Winston/Howell but it would need to be in a 2-4 QB competition situation. Those guys are impossible to count on going into a season.

That would be 2027.

Absolutely not. They are not worth a 7th.

He would probably be close to the last guy I would take on that list. Get a decent veteran bridge and start spamming rookie QB's when they are BPA. Build the team and just figure it out. Maybe if we build a very good team that is MISSING a good QB then we can be an attractive spot for FA older QB's that still have some life left in them.

D. Watson, Stafford(unlikely), Mayfield(never gonna happen), 2023 QB Rookies, Davis Mills, Brissett, Mac Jones, Will Levis, Drew Lock

Mac Jones is under contract in 2026. The "projected" available QB's are: https://overthecap.com/free-agency Rodgers will not be interested. Wilson is not likely to be interested. Of the remaining, I would contact Mariota, Taylor, Z. Wilson, Flacco, Pickett, Trubisky, K. Allen, Bridgewater, Minshew. Find one of them, draft a QB on Day 2 or 3. Roll with whomever wins a spot on the roster between Bryce(assuming you can't trade him), Dalton, Vet QB and Rookie QB.

They understand it is a business.

Not gonna happen. Would incur an almost $100 mil dead cap hit. They are stuck with him for at least two more seasons, most likely.

Brother, there have been numerous times in even recent NFL history that QB changes have improved the morale of an NFL team. No one is more painfully aware of how much they can help or harm a team than a player on that team. Doesn't mean they have to not support them or hate them. They have the same discussioms behind closed doors and between each other as we do. They know better than anyone else. You are not gonna see any more of a morale drop from rotating other QB's in there than you would if we keep losing with Bryce at the helm. It's the losing and lack of success that kills morale more than anything else.

Lewis performed so poorly he lost his starting job in the preseason after being named starter AND after being traded for a 3rd and 4th round pick. I have never seen anything like that preseason in 2001. It was insane.

I will take a look at it tomorrow and see if I can find the worst 3-4 QB's. I think probably only 1st-3rd round is reasonable. It was obvious in college he had a noodle arm.

Yeah. Bryce is pure ass but this is recency bias. The Clausen era was so fuging bad. I'll throw Weinke out there too as another drafted QB that was worse than Bryce has been so far. Speaking of, I wonder if many franchises can beat the pure shittiness of the Pickles/Weinke/Young combo of drafted QB's since 1995?

He is just bad. No amount of wishing and hoping is gonna fix it. Nothing we can do about it, man. Just another on a crazy pile of terrible WR's this franchise has drafted.

Strange that he is the only WR that fails so completely so often across his 1.5 seasons here, however.

I think you are either forgetting how bad Pickles was or using hyperbole.