Originally posted by tankle104:
A lot of interesting takes in here. They said that early on in training camp, it was clear darnold was better than Lance, darnold kept getting better and Lance just didn't.
i know we heard a bunch of stuff from Twitter people and all of that but they don't know what the hell is going on. Sounds like Lance was a lot worse than we thought and I think the team trading him to the cowboys says a lot, how little they really think of him.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RYXySsHeydY?si=4ArMja4xThdcj9-Z
Oh I'm sure Middlekauff doesn't have any bias since he thought from day one this back-up competition was rigged in favor of Darnold the day he signed and he always said he thought Darnold had more potential with this team than Lance.
I heard guys like Larry Krueger, Jack Hammer or Matt Maiocco say that they thought there wasn't any separation between Darnold or Lance and that quite clearly Allen was well behind the three other QBs.
And from what I saw in pre-season, I have a hard time thinking Sam Darnold is that much better than Lance as raw as he is.
The reality is that they wanted to trade Lance, the moment the season ended against the Eagles.
Lynch at the combine said that "Trey needs to play." and that certainly means he needs to play on another team.
They signed Darnold the second day of Free Agency IIRC. Darnold signed a 4.5 millions + incentives for every game play deal. Who does that to be in a competion to be the back up? They had Matt Maiocco b******ting us with the "best natural thrower of the football in Niners History" to sell us on Darnold. And who told him that? It's definetely Kyle. He talks like that just like his buddy Chris Simms.
Besides, Sam Darnold and Trey Lance have the same agents. There's zero chance they didn't know what would happen ultimately. Why these agents would put Darnold on the same team as Lance? It makes no sense unless they knew the Niners wanted to trade Trey.
They signed Brandon Allen who was the back up of Joe Burrow. Why this guy who was the back-up with the f**king Bengals would want to come here and be the fourth stringer? They had a plan because they think long term here. You can't have Purdy and Lance on the same team in the future. Maybe this season but then next year, you had to trade Trey to have cap space. So they wanted to do it now and that's ok. It's Football, it's a business, sometimes things just don't work and you have to move on like they did with Solomon Thomas, Dante Pettis or Javon Kinlaw just to name a few.
Nobody is perfect. If you hit on three or four draft picks every year, you're happy quite frankly. You're only judged on your win/loss record ultimately. And those three first round picks seriously, who cares at the end of the day. They're still a Superbowl contender every year. And I look at that infamous 2021 draft and the only guy I would have taken apart from Trevor Lawrence is Micah Parsons and he's a piece of s**t. Future HOF player but still piece of s**t. I love Jamar Chase but they already had Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk at this point. Yeah maybe Sewell or Slater, that would be great for this team I agree.
But to get back to the Trey Lance conversation, I really doubt that Kyle waked up in training camp and was like "Damn, Sam is so much better than Trey, he's the back-up.". He made his choice a long time ago. He's all in with Purdy and you can't really keep Purdy and Lance on the same team specially with all the noise from the fans if Purdy struggles one game or two which will definetely happen since he's a freaking 23 yeard old sophomore. With Darnold, there's no problems. Who wants Darnold on the field seriously?
And that's what this team needs. One guy to lead the team and everyone behind him. Now that puts ton of pressure on Purdy specially coming back from a major injury.
