Jikkle wrote:Big J wrote:Jikkle wrote:A couple of years ago I'd be ok with Brady but I think the combination of his age, the fact he'd have to learn a new offense, and how immobile he is I'd pass. Not to mention he's going to probably at least want 30 million to play in the first place.
Rodgers fits but he's an epic choker in the playoffs. He's another one that gets banged up and sure if he's healthy he'd likely win the MVP but he'd just choke in the divisional or championship game like he has for over a decade. Not to mention you'd have to put together a sizable trade package to land.
So what is the alternative? Have Lance stink up the joint, and waste this teams SB window?
Have to ride it out with Lance and hope he develops over the course of the season and fallback on Purdy if he doesn't.
People have been way too quick to write off Lance and he may very well suck in the long run but for whatever reason fans have lost their minds with the QB situation this past year.
Jalen Hurts should be a model for Lance as someone that can improve and develop if you commit to it.
I'm just afraid Lance just got drafted on the wrong team and the wrong coach because Shanahan unwilling to stomach the growing pains of developing a QB and can't help himself to sticking QBs that have little to no ceiling but are safe.
Gotta keep in mind if Lance is a big hit the SB window doesn't close but could be open for another 10 years as long as the team is smart with the roster.
Yeah, people giving up on Lance blows my mind, and I wasn't a fan of Lance coming into the draft. I called hi ma second-round pick pre-draft. But there's no denying his physical talent, everything you hear about him off the field, in the film and locker room, etc. is exemplary. We just haven't seen much of anything.
Lance looked pretty good in the second half against Houston as a rookie. Last year he had his moments against Chicago, though he also had some misses before the weather turned that one on its head. He didn't do much of anything before his injury against Seattle, but certainly nothing to give up on him.
He's not the dynamic runner that apparently some were expecting. I think we can say that definitively at this point. But those people hadn't watched his tape. He was a good runner in a conference full of guys who will never sniff the NFL. He ran over small defenders constantly, and he can't do that in the NFL. He lacks the wiggle and explosiveness of Fields, and Fields himself isn't in the range of Lamar or Kyler. He also needs to learn how to protect himself. He's awful at that right now, and I think it's part of why he got hurt this year. He kind of did a quarter slide but didn't commit, then got bent back over the ankle. But his passing is still such a question mark. We need more sample size. And we have recently seen guys like Allen and Hurts, who were not accurate, really improve in that area in the NFL. That used to be a real rarity.
Having said that, I don't view Purdy as being a low ceiling guy, per se. Because of his physical ceiling, everything else will need to go right for him to become a true impact QB. But we should expect his arm strength to improve somewhat as he grows into his body a bit more. We should expect the mental aspect of the game to get easier for him, and he already looked like a seasoned vet at times as a rookie in a complex system. He processes extremely quickly. It might be "settling" to an extent to go with Purdy over Lance, but I don't think that means our SB window closes. And Purdy is almost certainly better to be playing behind what could be a somewhat shaky OL than Lance is at this point.
The bottom line is that we can't panic, and we just need to see where these guys go over this upcoming season.