Grahamburn wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:33 pm
CannonFire wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:22 pm
So because Seattle was stupid, so should we be? Look, that may happen, I'm not denying that... I'm just saying that it's a mistake because Mayfield isn't a franchise QB. I don't care if Mayfield is insulted. He can try and go get his number elsewhere. I actually encourage it, because he won't find it.
Any deal that does not allow us to walk away from him mid-season next year, is a bad one.
You assess your situation and consider your options. Regardless of whatever hyperbolic comments the Baker haters want to make
we simply don't have great options outside of Mayfield. At least if we want to defend our 3-peat divisional crown.
There's also nothing that precludes us from drafting a developmental QB like Joe Milton or Spencer Rattler in the 3rd-4th rounds of the draft either.
You can extend Mayfield in this off-season and still plan for the future. If we can't get over the hump with him or he regresses you can easily move on at that point if a young QB develops. On the other hand, If his play is consistently solid then we can still build around him and you got your franchise QB off the scrap heap for nothing but cap space.
That's the thing with folks like me (Baker non-believers). You're (Baker believer) saying "Baker is a great option." Those of us that don't want him do not think he is a great option, hence us not wanting to either; 1. sign him for any amount whatsoever, or 2. give him guaranteed $ beyond 2024.
I love how you say, "you can easily move on from Baker if a young QB develops..." not if you guarantee him $100M+, you can't.
Let's look at some of the more recent QBs to get paid when there was not a concensus:
1. Daniel Jones - Do you think NYG is happy to have to have him on the roster for 2024?
2. Geno Smith - Do you think SEA/fans are thinking, "he's our franchise QB."
3. Derek Carr - NO happy to be stuck with him?
These days, the most successful QBs are guys who come in and almost immediately find success with the team that drafted them, not the guys on their fourth team in 16 days or whatever the real number is.
I do not like the fact that Baker lovers ignore the first five years of his career and chalk it up to, "but look at the franchise's he's played on" as if he had no hand in the failure.