No one is side stepping anything. I haven't seen a single poster guarantee you would immediately get the QB you want or need. But it's unreasonable to not try.
No one has said Dak is the ONLY problem but all reasonable posters have said he is the single player, playing the most important position who is has proven he is unable to do his job at the level needed to compete for a championship.
Dak isn't giving a discount if he takes less. He's still going to be vastly overpaid for his talents. Older QB's who have proven themselves unworthy shouldn't be getting anywhere near top pay regardless of "next man up" philosophy that agents like to spout. That's just common sense. It's not a Dak specific thing. Teams are starting to wake up about giving middling QB's top dollar, fully guaranteed, etc., contracts. There is about to be a correction in the market place.
Watching a QB, say Jake Browning, start a playoff game for us would at least be intriguing. I wouldn't know going in that he was going to fail. Even if he fails, at his salary & contract conditions, I would have hope we could perhaps get it right going forward. Whether that means putting better team around him or moving on from him.
You mention side stepping. Why is it that any other position can be evaluated by what they have done on the field and fans are completely fine with saying "We have to move on from that guy". But are completely scared to risk change even when they acknowledge the QB hasn't really earned "We can win with this guy" confidence?
