ndirish1978 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Can we please stop with the illogical "we should trade for: x,y, z player cause they are mediocre and cheaper than Tyrod" foolishness. Bridge players are worthless, they are just good enough to get you 5-7 wins and keep you out of a top 5 pick and nowhere near good enough to get this team to a championship. If you don't believe TT can be "the guy", draft someone else to be "the guy" this year or next and play the rookie if we take one or Cardale this year if we wait til next year to draft one, he will either sink or swim and we will know what we have. I'm tired of all these half measures.
FireChan Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Can we please stop with the illogical "we should trade for: x,y, z player cause they are mediocre and cheaper than Tyrod" foolishness. Bridge players are worthless, they are just good enough to get you 5-7 wins and keep you out of a top 5 pick and nowhere near good enough to get this team to a championship. If you don't believe TT can be "the guy", draft someone else to be "the guy" this year or next and play the rookie if we take one or Cardale this year if we wait til next year to draft one, he will either sink or swim and we will know what we have. I'm tired of all these half measures. Yep, cut TT. Romo is the guy. Draft a QB as backup.
GunnerBill Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Can we please stop with the illogical "we should trade for: x,y, z player cause they are mediocre and cheaper than Tyrod" foolishness. Bridge players are worthless, they are just good enough to get you 5-7 wins and keep you out of a top 5 pick and nowhere near good enough to get this team to a championship. If you don't believe TT can be "the guy", draft someone else to be "the guy" this year or next and play the rookie if we take one or Cardale this year if we wait til next year to draft one, he will either sink or swim and we will know what we have. I'm tired of all these half measures. I think Tyrod is a bridge Quarterback.
BarleyNY Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Can we please stop with the illogical "we should trade for: x,y, z player cause they are mediocre and cheaper than Tyrod" foolishness. Bridge players are worthless, they are just good enough to get you 5-7 wins and keep you out of a top 5 pick and nowhere near good enough to get this team to a championship. If you don't believe TT can be "the guy", draft someone else to be "the guy" this year or next and play the rookie if we take one or Cardale this year if we wait til next year to draft one, he will either sink or swim and we will know what we have. I'm tired of all these half measures. The job of a bridge QB is simply to hold the fort down so you don't have to throw an unprepared rookie QB into the fray before he's ready. He's just there so a team doesn't ruin their highly drafted potential FQB.
BuffaloRebound Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Agreed. That's why giving Tyrod $30m is not something you do. Sign Landry Jones to a deal similar to Tyrods 2015 deal and let the 2 Joneses compete for the starting job.
Blokestradamus Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 The job of a bridge QB is simply to hold the fort down so you don't have to throw an unprepared rookie QB into the fray before he's ready. He's just there so a team doesn't ruin their highly drafted potential FQB. And, in the event of that future QB taking the reigns, you have an experienced backup and (hopefully) a veteran presence to act as another coach. Hence why I kinda like the quotes today attributed to Josh McCown about going to a team with a young QB.
D. L. Hot-Flamethrower Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Great just what we need another QB thread!
ndirish1978 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Posted February 23, 2017 The job of a bridge QB is simply to hold the fort down so you don't have to throw an unprepared rookie QB into the fray before he's ready. He's just there so a team doesn't ruin their highly drafted potential FQB. The point being that we either use Tyrod for that purpose or just start Cardale, whom evidently everyone thinks needs to sit on the bench for 15 years before he's "ready" to play. There is no logic behind trading for Foles or some other mid-level guy to come in and be a caretaker. We have a QB who has been on an NFL roster for a year; if you don't believe in TT then start Cardale and get ready to draft a rd 1 QB this year or next.
Andrew Son Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 The job of a bridge QB is simply to hold the fort down so you don't have to throw an unprepared rookie QB into the fray before he's ready. He's just there so a team doesn't ruin their highly drafted potential FQB. Yep. Maybe if the Texans had a bridge "QB", they don't ruin Carr
FireChan Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Yep. Maybe if the Texans had a bridge "QB", they don't ruin Carr Maybe if David didn't suck, he could've been Derek.
hondo in seattle Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Can we please stop with the illogical "we should trade for: x,y, z player cause they are mediocre and cheaper than Tyrod" foolishness. Bridge players are worthless, they are just good enough to get you 5-7 wins and keep you out of a top 5 pick and nowhere near good enough to get this team to a championship. If you don't believe TT can be "the guy", draft someone else to be "the guy" this year or next and play the rookie if we take one or Cardale this year if we wait til next year to draft one, he will either sink or swim and we will know what we have. I'm tired of all these half measures. There are no such thing as "bridge QBs." It's just a term invented by bored fans. Just like every other position, you play the best QB you can acquire. If TT is the best QB we can find, you don't dump him because you've labeled him a "bridge QB." That's illogical. You play TT until you find someone better. But I agree with the rest of this. Our goal is the Super Bowl. And that requires a Super Bowl caliber roster. We have several players who don't play like they belong on a Super Bowl team and DW needs to find their replacements. Edited February 23, 2017 by hondo in seattle
Beef Jerky Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Yep. Maybe if the Texans had a bridge "QB", they don't ruin Carr No, you either have it or you don't. The job of a bridge QB is simply to hold the fort down so you don't have to throw an unprepared rookie QB into the fray before he's ready. He's just there so a team doesn't ruin their highly drafted potential FQB. This is actually a myth.
GunnerBill Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Maybe if David didn't suck, he could've been Derek. See I think David Carr is an example of a guy who really was ruined by a team. He might not have been any good anyway but they absolutely destroyed him. His o-line was brutal.
Andrew Son Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 No, you either have it or you don't. This is actually a myth. Don't agree. Carr got ruined and was seeing ghosts the rest of his career
Jauronimo Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 No, you either have it or you don't. This is actually a myth. That's a myth too, actually.
iinii Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Great just what we need another QB thread! That is what I was thinking.
Jauronimo Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Can we please stop with the illogical "we should trade for: x,y, z player cause they are mediocre and cheaper than Tyrod" foolishness. Bridge players are worthless, they are just good enough to get you 5-7 wins and keep you out of a top 5 pick and nowhere near good enough to get this team to a championship. If you don't believe TT can be "the guy", draft someone else to be "the guy" this year or next and play the rookie if we take one or Cardale this year if we wait til next year to draft one, he will either sink or swim and we will know what we have. I'm tired of all these half measures. I'm sure you'll be totally patient and reasonable as we rack up a stack of 3-13 and 4-12 seasons as we churn through QBs looking for the "the guy".
Talley56 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 That's a myth too, actually. Agree, Kaepernick seemed to have it when he got to a Superbowl one year and the NFC Championship game the next. Since Harbaugh left he's been dreadful.
Andrew Son Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Agree, Kaepernick seemed to have it when he got to a Superbowl one year and the NFC Championship game the next. Since Harbaugh left he's been dreadful. Yep, Matt Cassel had "it" once.
hondo in seattle Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Was Fergy a bridge QB? He wasn't a championship type QB, so I guess he fits the definition. He did bridge us from Dennis Shaw to Vince Ferragamo. It was a 12 year bridge. Was OJ a bridge RB? He never brought us a championship either. Call them whatever you want, you put the best players on the field you can. Sadly, they all won't be superstars and they all won't earn championship rings.
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