Quote:I say stick with Blake.  Honestly what makes any of the quarterbacks in this years draft any better of a choice than him?  None of them stick out as a can't miss prospect.  I say go all in this year with Blake, and lets see if he can turn it around.  I believe he can, and in a in a big way.  I hate the idea of starting over and committing to at least 2 years of rebuilding.  Nothing that Dave, Doug, or even Tom has said this off-season has led me to believe that we are in the quarterback business.  I think we are bringing guys in because we are doing our due diligence, and hell you have so many pre draft visits to use anyway that you have to use them on someone.  I've been wrong before, and will be again, but I think we are completely committed to Blake for next year.  I also fully anticipate us picking up his 5th year option before the deadline because it's only fully guaranteed against injury.

 

I don't think the front office is going to be as free wheeling with $18+ million as you would be.  If they pick up the option and he has a significant injury this year, it's guaranteed on a player that they'd most certainly have 0 interest in going forward if that's how it plays out.  They'd be much better off and it would be more prudent with the $18 million to let him play his [BLEEP] off this year and either give him the long term contract or franchise him.  The risk of injury is real and he's not worth the $18 million in 2018 based on what we've seen so far.  And I'm not even sure the $18 million dollar figure is accurate.  I was looking at the top 10 QB salaries which the average of those is what the option salary is based on and it would be more like $22 mil if it's based on the salaries for 2017.  I'm not exactly sure how they're calculating it though.

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