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My impression obviously is we could do better for the money and if that means a one and done vet for 2026 and something else the next year, I am fine with that. And I know your mind is made up but some people feel like we need to be able to see what Canales can do with a more conventional guy to scheme and play call for. Because we think the playbook is cut down. If you keep Bruce you keep the leash on the offense too and we won’t get any chance to see. We need to know about him too. And doing the Reich thing with one season at a time protects us from Canales drafting a guy and then getting fired and that being a mess.

It's not about becoming elite, it's about being confident enough to be more aggresive offensively.

True. Few people remember that. Kudos to you, Sir!

Yeah, he also said Mingo was the guy. Guess .500 is better then .000

It works both ways. A QB needs receivers that can get open and then catch the ball when they do. The begining of the season had Tmac and XL as his recevers. Tmac and XL are at 57% and 56% comp rates for the season and Young has a qb rating of 83 and 72 throwing to them. Coker has a comp rate of 73% and a qb rating of 113. Replacing XL with Coker will improve the offense significantly and TMac improve simply with experience.

Yes but I think he is relatively impervious to some level of improving after seeing that Gruden interview about his footwork. He can be a slightly below average starting QB, IMO. He has those abilities. But he is his own worst enemy. I think in the way Tebl0w was. He is pretty convinced that he has this figured out and he is doing all the right things, when that is clearly not the case. That's not an inordinate amount of one score games, it's in the fairly typical range. Also, we finished at -70. Even the Seahawks leading the NFL at +191 had 10 one score games. I don't think XL to Coker is going to suddenly turn us elite. We have way more issues than XL. Again, it's way too early to say we WILL take a step back but it's far from unlikely either.

I was just thinking that i remember this didn't think i would be able to find it.

Agree TMac has elite potention. But for right now, who would you throw to with the game on the line? One play to win it all? Who would get open? Who would you trust most to make the catch right now?

Coker is a stud

Not to mention DJ Moore at WR, probably Jalen Carter instead of moving up to get BY (he would have fallen right in our laps - Carter and Derrick Brown, damn!), anyone but Mingo since we'd still have DJ. Not sure CMC would be here. That wasn't a move for a QB. But not giving up draft picks for Sam Darnold too. You can't get into the habit of switching QBs like that. It could take a decade before you find the guy. And another 5-10 years to rebuild the rest of the team because of what you gave up to get them. Build the team, then get the QB. Sure, take a flyer on a day 2/3 guy in the draft or a FA as a project. But changing QBs, HCs and GMs every year or so is not a recipe for success.

Only took most of the season. This should never have been in doubt.

Or Dillion Gabriel or Justin Fields or Shadur Sanders or Spencer Rattler or Carson Wentz or Brady Cook or....

Good times. PhillyB and SCP roasting his ass.

Who? Might as well tell me what the cashier at your local Whole Foods is saying

This is how every honored number should be treated IMO. Not retired, but not given out often, and you better ball out if you wear it.

$19 mil AAV would be the sub-franchise QB tier. That would be the 20th largest QB salary. The QB's in the category feature a LOT of better QB's than Bryce(not including rookie deals).

I agree with Tmac and rookie struggles. That's one of the reason I feel good about the offense improviing next year. A slight improvement in his numbers and Coker just continuing his current pace would be pretty strong receiving core.

Having a ceiling on what the offense can generate is for sure why we end up only one score ahead in some of these games. But I am thinking the QB play needs to be better as a larger factor than the WRs having more experience, to make a leap.

You could use the same arguement for the Bucs. All they had to do was beat the Dolphins or the Saints. They didn't. And don't get me started on the officiating that last game.

Well, quite frankly, yours is a fine theory as well except that we are no longer getting worse as a team. Quite the opposite. And we would've been MUCH better off if we'd spent the resources on a better team than on yet another QB. If you go back to almost any recent QB and do the math in your head, we'd be a better team with that QB and having spent the resources on the team around him. How would you like to have, say, Baker Mayfield as our QB, CMC as our RB, and Brock Bowers as our TE? That's the type thing we've given up by listening to everyone say we need to move to yet another QB.

TMac has work to do but he is the first potentially elite WR we have had in a long time. I am not worried about his catch% for a rookie(not uncommon for it to be lower than elite the first couple of years). Coker is tracking well. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, because he technically has had very, very modest overall production but if he is given the correct opportunities, I do think he could be one of the best UDFA's we have ever had. It's going to be about the coaching staff actually finally realizing it.

It's weird because I as a non-college watcher heard about him and watched tape (that's what I call Youtube highlights) and could tell he was worth drafting. Teams just got blind to a non big name school talent.

If we're the only playoff team that has reached out, that kind of makes us by default the most attractive option.