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Richardson refused to give up control that he reserved for his nepobaby sons, and the rest is history.

They need to prove they had a much better offseason than last year, especially the draft. IDGAF about off season grades and I'm out of energy for any more excusses. Put up or shut up time is here for everyone. If Evero is a dud that still falls on those 2 for brining him back and building around him. If Bryce doesn't take major steps than that falls on them too. Just put up or it's time to start talking about who else can do better. I'm exhausted by losing at this point.

He looked awful for his debut and it will take a while to get that out of people’s heads. He has limited physical tools that will only diminish as he gets older. Giving him a long term contract would give me pause. I’m rooting for him but if he plays well enough to bring the franchise back to respectable/average that would be the W. I’d rather find a better QB with better tools eventually.

While I do think he will improve, I don’t expect his numbers to be that much higher. We have a good group of TEs as it is. I think Evans has the potential to be a good TE for us. Tremble will be our most experienced TE and is a great blocker who will take reps away from Sanders. There’s also the fact that we drafted Tet who is a 6’4 WR who could take away red zone targets. Legette and Coker are also listed at 6’3 so we have a lot of big WR on the team already. then there’s the fact we have 2 1,000 yd RBs on the roster. Does that mean we will run the ball more this year? I also noticed that Tommy Tremble is listed as our #1 TE. Granted that could change when the season starts. So overall I wouldn’t expect a big season from Sanders. That could change with injuries. I think 400-500 yards seems more reasonable to me for this season. I wouldn’t pay attention to the stats as much as how well he plays though.

I like how he always stays in bounds and gets extra yards near the sideline. Somebody might pop him late eventually but it’s good to see.

When we’re able to run a QB sneak, then those fears will ease from me.

it's going to be a crowded TE group...a crowded receiving corps that he will be part of. i'm not sure how much breaking out is going to happen. we're probably going to have 1 receiver with 1k yards, another couple with over 750 yards, and then the rest will be lucky to get over 500 and will probably be around 350 at best. i just don't see enough targets coming for him to get a whole lot. maybe 1-2 a game. not because he isn't good enough, there's only going to be so many balls thrown to a lot of different people.

Canales hasn't proven to use the TE like that. Look for him to get around 400 yards and 3 tds

I really love Sanders potential and thus never understood why so many were wanting us to take a TE in the 1st. But if he approaches 700 yards this year, it means our WR room had tons of injuries or seriously flopped. As I've said before, this year is about Bryce proving he can be the guy, but all our offensive weapons will have slightly lower stats because he's going to spread the ball around and they'll all eat into each other's potential. It's next year when Thielen leaves and we don't replace him with a new player, but T-Mac, XL, Coker, and Sanders all absorb his targets that they all start putting up the stats they are capable of.

I think both things can be true. I think he is capable of playing at a high level, I also think without any elite physical traits, and his height, he has a much smaller margin of error. Both things can be true. All physical traits and his brain are all tools. The more tools you have in your bag the more chances you have to get the job done, but that doesn't mean you cant with minimal tools.

Exactly this. He controls his own future and it's basically decided this coming season. As the #1 overall pick in his third season at qb, if we are picking in the top 5 or 6 next draft in a very qb heavy draft, he made his own bed.

Yea I got you I don't respect cheating regardless myself but to get entangled in some nonsense you may have no control over depending on who the spouse is. Just needlessly put yourself in unknown crosshairs. We've all heard crazy stories. I've never cheated and I been married for 21 years. I have no reason to suspect she has either and its nothing I've ever sweated we both had childhoods with divorced parents and didn't want that for our kids so behave accordingly.

Good teams play down to there competition...it happens. I don't know why yall think this doesn't apply here as well. The jalen hurts in the playoffs blows this team out, same for mahomes and KC.

And a very talented OL that has good chemistry. Both starters and depth

Lil Guppie has officially arrived!

Yeah, and about all their stuff is like that. Great listening. And their videos... just fantastic. Not sure who directs them but they need to be at Sundance.

Top 10 defense by mid-season, barring injuries.

I think the highlighted portion of your post is a reasonable expectation. The above stat would average out to just over 1 TD pass per game and twice as many TD's as INT's. This team is built to run the football, so I'm not expecting Bryce to light up the stat sheet each week. If can complete 60% of his passes, make 2-3 big time passing plays a week, reach the 3,400-3,500 yard mark, and finish the season with your stat line, then we should be competitive week in and week out.

Because they signed him to an appropriate contract. His deal is in the range of a #3 TE who is probably expected to make the roster but if he doesn't, oh well. It's not gonna hurt us much at all to cut bait on him. That's who Ian Thomas is as an NFL player. A guy who should be bouncing around the league trying to make it as a bottom of the roster type of player. Not a guy that you sign to a mid-level starter type of contract like the Panthers did.

is it an excuse that the ice melted because it sat on the counter? If we dont improve on the D (and things are looking up there) then it wont matter. We will still be losing more games than we are winning and Bryce isnt enough to lift the team above that

We just did something about the D, did you miss the free agency and the draft?

I hope so. I liked him coming into the draft but then he hit the field and looked utterly lost and just like he flat out didn't belong and it was like "UH OH. That's not good." But he really showed improvement through the mid-portion of the season before that nasty spill seemed like it just kinda derailed the rest of his season.

I was 275 when I had mine surgically repaired at age 35. I was back to work in 4 days and full strength in 2 months. I assume they are being ultra cautious with arguably our best player.

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