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Darnold has an arm Bryce could never dream of having. Darnold also required a level of coaching that was not available to him during his time on the Panthers.

Probably 0, but he might suit up as the emergency 3rd stringer.

Wow, Young really brought the league average down that far?

This is a quick reference that refreshes the memory bank. https://sogsports.com/greatest-nfl-tight-ends-of-all-time/ It doesn’t list their draft position or I didn’t see that but you bet some of these guys were not 1st round picks.

I ain't buying it. You run to set up the pass and pass to set up the run. You gotta have at least the threat of legit deep shots. And, last I looked, a deep pass is only 20 yards, so what are we doing here? Football 101 by Top Dawg: Look, you draft the best players (and that's perhaps even more important at offensive skill positions). You develop them. You keep your pipeline active year after year. On game days, you run to set up the pass, and pass to set up the run. If they can't stop the run, you run it down their throats. When they do stop the run, pass it, even if you dink and dunk it. But, you have to pepper in deep shots to keep them honest. When they get comfortable with stopping or trying to stop the pass, you run it. Rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat. Being a one-winged bird on offense is not optimal.

It's actually incredibly funny how we had an effective power run offense under Wilkes and then Tepper blew it up and we're only just now winning again once we shifted back to a power run offense.

Because quarterbacks are at the center of everything, when you’re winning, your QB is playing well, when you’re losing, he’s playing poorly. As long as we play well, we’re not getting a new quarterback. The only way Bryce gets replaced is if the team completely falls apart and people start getting fired. There’s no middle ground.

The way opposing teams are playing us says otherwise. If you have the QB, protection, separation, and timing what else do you need? You acting like completing a deep ball in the NFL is pulling off some exercise of black magic.

Open up the field to motivate the other side to defend more of it. We are so constrained without the threat of a quick strike.

I don’t know why that would happen when the team around Bryce has been showing progress. But with the Tepper factor guess it is on the table.

with that list, we might as well go find the QB of the Mud Dawgs or Keanu Reeves

The threat is there. Execution requires more than QB, adequate protection, separation and timing.

If he has already forgotten how Wilks went run heavy in 2022 to become more competitive, and the hubris that spawned, we may as well just figuratively shoot ourselves. edit: my hope would be if we do beat them with Andy playing it will be a different kind of reaction.

you also could argue the adverse

We are not getting a QB, if we move on, everyone is getting fired and they’re going to start from scratch

But the threat of the deep ball still sets up the underneath stuff. When the defense only has to worry about covering about 20 yards of grass the underneath stuff gets a lot harder.

I can’t see how it would be wise to risk making the injury worse, so unless you had zero other options, you don’t put him on the field.

Evans may be the steal of the draft

any port in a storm I guess

Too much to ask picking in the middle of the third round. Unless you are historically lucky. Hell you need luck in the 1st to get that. The devaluation of the position is hard for me to understand when I look at the difference great MLBs have made to defenses over the years. Defense needs a good QB too. MLB is the QB of the defense.

Across the league. 5 straight years of decline. Deep pass attempts have fallen to just 7.7 per game in 2024, down from that 2019 peak. Air yards per attempt are at 7.7 yards this year—the lowest in over a decade. Overall passing yards per game have tanked too, from 496 in 2020’s early weeks to a 403 in 2024. This trend is a result of defenses playing with two-high safety schemes designed to prevent deep passes, forcing offenses to seek yards after the catch on shorter throws. Two-high safety calls are everywhere now—up from 44% of dropbacks in 2019 to 63% in 2024—forcing QBs to take shorter throws instead of risking picks on bombs. Add in more presnap disguises, faster pass rushes (QB pressure up to 30.1% of dropbacks), and lighter, quicker D-linemen, and it’s a nightmare for deep shots. Offenses have adapted with emphasizing power run games to counter deep coverage and fast but leaner pass rushers. Rushing attempts per game are up to 27.9 per game average with top teams significantly in the 30+ attempts. QBs are emphasizing more short and intermediate throws so that the few deep passes they attempt have a higher completion percentage overall than in years past. So to everyone who is frustrated with lack of deep passing, it’s all cyclical and right now emphasis on the run and taking more calculated shots is the way to go.

Even though Bryce does creep into nearly every discussion at some point, there is other stuff to engage with. If he was doing that I missed it.

We desperately need to pick the best MLB in the draft this time around. We will never find another Luke, but we have to get someone back there that can run the defense on the field, cover weaknesses and correct mistakes in real-time, along with diagnose the opposing offense based on personnel, alignment and pre-snap movement. And they need to be able to hit like a freight train, cover like flypaper and tackle like a rotweiller. Not too much to ask.

So AI’s big solution is to have all your picks in the first three rounds??

Nadeu is ready tbh.... out of him and Blake he was always the far superior prospect.....