2022 NFL Offseason Thread: Looking forward Tua better future!

It's more about if Lance is ready to be the guy. Does Shanahan have the confidence that Lance is the best shot at getting past the conference championship and winning the superbowl.

So now you want to lose the coin toss

Grim1 said:

Is Trey Lance ready and better than Jimmy?

Haven't really been following this so I'm probably missing something here but Jimmy has been performing at a high level for a while now. At least from an outside perspective. Good QB's are very hard to come by. Is everyone so sure that Trey will be better or that he will even be competent?

And as long as Jimmy can't pass the physical the 49's can't get much for him in a trade. If they wait until he's healthy there is a good chance another team will have lost their QB to injury by then and be desperate. 49'rs can get a lot more for a healthy Jimmy.

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Nobody knows, and until the 49ers actually let him play, nobody will know, including Shanahan. All of this is stupid because the 49ers used 3 1st round picks on Lance. Unless you can recoup those picks, you absolutely need to go out and let him play. One of the huge factors about having a QB on a rookie deal is they are cheap, comparatively. You fill out the rest of the roster using that extra money. You don't keep another QB on the roster for $25M, it's a fucking waste of years on the rookie contract.

jooka said:

It's more about if Lance is ready to be the guy. Does Shanahan have the confidence that Lance is the best shot at getting past the conference championship and winning the superbowl.

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And I guess this is the big question. The 49ers decided to move on from Jimmy because even when he played his best, they saw his limitations (and injury history). You can't use 3 1st round picks on a guy and decide he isn't your guy. You need to at the very least give him a chance and figure out if he is the guy or not.

This shit is dumb, and if Jimmy really is on the roster once training camp hits, the 49ers are retarded.

Ameraves said:

And I guess this is the big question. The 49ers decided to move on from Jimmy because even when he played his best, they saw his limitations (and injury history). You can't use 3 1st round picks on a guy and decide he isn't your guy. You need to at the very least give him a chance and figure out if he is the guy or not.

This shit is dumb, and if Jimmy really is on the roster once training camp hits, the 49ers are retarded.

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If Lance is your guy for the next 10-20 years once he takes over, sitting him till he is ready doesn't seem like some huge mistake. Most people predraft didn't think he was ready to start in the NFL(you can count Shanahan in that category obviously) but his ceiling is ridiculously high so they went for him knowing this going into it.

As for 49'ers fans wishing an injury on another team to take Jimmy is rich, careful what you wish for, you don't exactly have good history on how injuries go.

jooka said:

If Lance is your guy for the next 10-20 years once he takes over, sitting him till he is ready doesn't seem like some huge mistake. Most people predraft didn't think he was ready to start in the NFL(you can count Shanahan in that category obviously) but his ceiling is ridiculously high so they went for him knowing this going into it.

As for 49'ers fans wishing an injury on another team to take Jimmy is rich, careful what you wish for, you don't exactly have good history on how injuries go.

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I am not an NFL coach obviously, but I seriously question how much a QB learns from riding the bench for 2+ years. I disagreed with, but fully understood, why they kept Jimmy last year. If Lance would have started I expect it would have been rough, although still meaningful in terms of learning. I know people always point to Aaron Rodgers and how he sat on the bench for a few years, but that sure seems like an outlier. Otherwise you would have teams drafting QB's and sitting them for multiple years since it would automatically turn them into HOF QB's.

And nobody should be wishing injury anywhere. Not sure what 49ers fans you are referring to, but I surely won't do that. I get that they want to get any sort of trade value out of him if possible, but if not they need to cut ties and move on.

they should just get rid of deferring. It's stupid, predictable and retarded. Coin toss should just determine who gets the ball first and that's it. You win the toss, you get the ball. The other team gets to decide the side of the field

I was fine with how it was, see how this goes but it's funny that it's an over reaction to the Chiefs/Bills game when the Bengals did exactly what the Bills couldn't do a week later and people somehow still think the Bills deserved a shot. That it is in the playoffs only and not getting used at all until then is also pretty hysterical.