Picket is on a rookie contract and can give us the same product with more upside by being only 22 yrs old.
Pickett has performed markedly worse than Geno Smith for two years straight, and again, would've cost a first round pick to obtain. He's 2 years in and hasn't been even a league average starting passer for a second of those seasons.
If Purdy can put up numbers in whiners offense, why not ours. We have just as much talent at the skilled positions as his current team other than Rb.
No one can put up the numbers the Niners offense has. Not only that, but no one is even in the same
stratosphere of their offensive efficiency other than Miami, who has Shanahan's protege as the head coach. If you think this is especially replicable despite the rest of the league not being able to replicate it, I don't know what to tell you.
The majority of the league is between 5 and 5.9 yards per play. 3rd through 24th best, to be exact. Seattle is 13th at 5.4.
San Francisco and Miami are alone at the top, 6.8 and 6.6 respectively. Both have quarterbacks without a ton of physical talent or arm strength getting the ball to speed and YAC threats, and occasionally trying to take the top off of the D. They are not on the same planet as the rest of the NFL right now.
So, yeah. He wouldn't be doing that here. He wouldn't be doing it anywhere else, except maybe Miami.
Howell is a fifth round pick playing for the COMMANDER'S in his first year, and not half the talent we have.
He has thrown 17 picks this year, leading the league in interceptions. Also, this is his second year, meaning his rookie contract is half up and he's got nothing but a few wins and now a benching to show for it. Jacoby Brissett came in for him, and you know what Jacoby Brissett hasn't done? Throw a bunch of picks. Team immediately improved with career backup Jacoby Brissett replacing Howell. If you find Geno Smith to be an unacceptable quarterback, there is absolutely no way you can credibly say that you'd prefer Seattle had drafted Howell and played him instead. It's
bonkers.
If we tried trading our starting Qb for any of these other Qbs mentioned straight across do you think any of these teams would make that trade,. Nope they sure wont.
Why would
we make the same trade straight across, except MAYBE in the case of Purdy? Cap relief in exchange for being significantly worse in the short term?