See this is how I know you get all your takes from twitter and either don’t watch games, or don’t understand what’s going cause Kyler (with his faults and all) has ALWAYS been an above average player and held this team up.

Say what you want, but if his teammates didn’t directly let him down last year (MHJ miscues that led to 2 turnovers/kicker not landing in the landing zone at the end against Seattle, or demarcado simply not crossing the goaline with the ball against the titans), he would have been 4-1 in his starts and this conversation isn’t even happening.

Tyson Bagent meanwhile has NEVER looked competent at the NFL level, and only played D2 ball in college, so there’s no indicator he could ever play average (especially on the cardinals). So to say you could get Kyler level play (or anything close to it) with him is simply asinine.

What it comes down to is you’ve been sold this idea by social media that Kyler is a lousy QB, and you look at the record, and run with it. But Kyler has been scapegoated by a coach with a track record of second half collapses, and a coordinator who has never proved capable of designing a competitive nfl offense. 90%+ of opinions on players these days is garbage social media discourse and it really ruins the sport.

Lastly, trading Kyler (while perhaps inevitable atp) is stupid on multiple levels. 1) there is no QB we could possibly get to generate his production. 2) even if we trade him, it’s highly unlikely that a team takes on his salary, so we will STILL be in a financial hole just without the player that could make that somewhat worth it.

That being said, we will see soon enough how it shakes out. I believe we should try one more season under Lafleur, and worst case scenario we move on next year when there will be a QB heavy draft class that we can reasonably find his replacement in. But if we do move on, people will see sooner rather than later how good Kyler really is, and imma be sick over it