Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
Originally posted by Waterbear:
There's no guarantee Jimmy or Brady stays healthy either. So I don't understand that argument.
I'm looking at this with the idea that Option A allows our team to allocate cap space to other parts of the team. We could continue to build a juggernaut around Trey whether the storm until Brock comes back.
I'm not saying we shouldn't sign anybody, I'd like to have a Heinicke, Minshew type QB3. But I don't think we need to continue bench Trey for someone like Brady or Jimmy G. It's counter productive at that point because you're continually stunting the growth of a QB who IMO has a lot of potential still.
I believe in Trey. I don't know for sure he will be good enough or stay healthy but people act like it's certain we would lose with Trey and win with Jimmy and its ridiculous.
There's no guarantee of anything, ever.
But let me ask you this, if you had to bet your entire year's salary on one QB to get this team to the SB and win it and the choices are Lance or Brady, who are you picking?
Obviously in a vacuum you trust Brady over Trey but nothing works like that. Wether or not signing Brady is that right choice depends on a lot of different factors… how much he wants, and what effect does him coming to the 49ers have on the team, especially Brock and Lance, and so on.
Do we have to change the offense and stunt Trey and Brock's growth? What happens if Brady comes in and does well, but had we waited we would have won the SB because Trey or Purdy
took the next step and were on the sidelines.
How many posters on this forum were in the camp that said we needed Jimmy to sign with us last offseason or we'd potentially miss our SB chance. And now we see that Purdy was able to do… what if Purdy starting meant we got the #1 seed? These hypotheticals can go on and on.
I mean, how many times are we gonna do this where we assume we're in win now so we have to bench Trey.
Like it or not, the reason we're competing for Super Bowls was the fact we lost our QB for multiple seasons and drafted high those years (Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel).