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I am no football savant as has been demonstrated here over and over, but I saw it. I went for years doing the mock draft thing and researching the players that we might get around our pick, time consuming stuff. And we would get to the draft and trade the pick. All that time, wasted. So I quit doing that. Also realized I was not a scout and would never be a scout and went to looking the videos and reports After we picked a guy. Maybe I would look at the 1st round, but quit that too and just looked after we picked. When they did that trade I saw Bryce and his size and just ruled him out. Then it got to yeah they are probably going to take him, I relented and looked at some video and got to his pro day. It took me all of a few minutes to see the issues. The footwork. The arm. And the tape of games? The backyard style. I knew, what can I say? (Also, went down the physical checklist, not a single plus attribute on the NFL level. Arm, speed, size, etc, nothing to offset the negatives. nothing) I think it was easy for me because I had not watched a single game he played in college,and wasn’t drawn in by the hype. Had no preconceived notions and just looked at it pretty clinically. I got in here and everyone was going “but look at what he did in college! It is the SEC, if he can do it in the SEC he can do it in the NFL!” Couldn’t reason with hardly anyone. I don’t think I could tell you which guy would succeed between two prototypical guys with great arms and athleticism, and have no special insight into any of that. My one calling in football scouting was to see the real about what we were about to do. And you still don’t know for sure until they get in a real game in the NFL.

Miss Bryce sorely is possibly the most hilarious statement I have read on the Huddle in quite some time.

He did only throw 1 pass 20+ in that game. I think he is still struggling to adjust to the NFL. At Alabama he was able to extend plays and play backyard football. That's not only not the style of offense we have been running but his physical skills don't lend themselves to that style of play at this level. So, the amount of issues he actually has to clean up are WAAAAAY more than I anticipated as a guy that had Bryce #1 on my board in that draft class. I am just not seeing a reasonable path for him to clean it all up and develop in a reasonable timeframe

lol or it could be another mirage like we saw in the Las Vegas desert last year.

Terrible optics but it also looks fun. I do wonder what the hell happened. Anyways, Cam's his own man and it doesn't effect me.

It’s a person that works as a mascot. Who knows what they are thinking? ‘mascoting’ seems to be about doing goofy poo and if you are out there running around with them maybe you are expected to play along.

The best thing the Hornets have going for them is the sheer amount of youth they have on the roster. I'm just glad they are playing intelligent team oriented basketball. And they are playing for one another. At the very least this will be a fun team to watch.

I always go back to the first game Bryce played in the NFL. I was really bothered by two things. His lackadaisical meandering dropback, no urgency at all. Like what’s the hurry. And no deep balls. I don’t know what to say other than put them in the fuging play book. I seem to remember game after game where someone had done well the previous week and it was promised that they would get them involved more. And then crickets on game day. I think finally we went deep more one game just because of something like that. Memory is fuzzy on the specifics.

I've seen enough of the good bad and ugly of Andy Dalton playing QB to know what to expect. There are some throws that he can make that we might not have seen attempted otherwise. But you do not want to push your luck. Let Rico eat.

Jones is a less athletic and less gunslinger version of Purdy, as well. What he(Jones) does well doesn't translate into every offense.

Yep, they're both in that good backup/mediocre starter category. If you put them in a good situation they can be effective game managers with limited upside. Put them in a bad situation and they're gonna look like how Jones has looked in bad situations.

Ehler starts us off right

I think the whole thing has been overblown

Cam is my guy; favorite player of all time, but he’s got some loose screws. Thankfully, he came back to reality before it was too late. Definitely don’t think the boy in the mascot suit was being malicious. Probably just a goofy

They both are average to below average QB's, most likely. That offense is just a well oiled machine with a lot of nice toys

Okay. I see what you mean. I honestly am just not as fixated on that deep pass element because I do genuinely believe that has largely been a product of the offense slightly more than Bryce himself. I looked at 20+ yd passes(NFNGS) based on Bryce vs. Dalton. Bryce was actually throwing deep more often, which did surprise me. Not a remarkable amount. I tend to think the lack of deep targets is more the fault of the offense. I think the lack of general success on deep targets, is Bryce.

I just think defenders know he's fumble prone at this point so there even more emphasis on trying to strip him. It's not like trying to tackle a Cam or Allen or even a Maye or Herbert. You're not really worried about Bryce breaking a tackle and taking off so you're less concerned about securing the tackle allowing you to focus more on trying to get the ball out.

See, year 3 is a pivotal year. Why, here we have Young very nearly leading the NFL now in a couple of key stats! Lots of football left to be played too.

It has nothing to do with Fantasy, he's 10th in pass attempts but something like 27th in yards with the only players below him being QB's who haven't started 7 game this year. There is just flat out no rational way to say that is a good thing and he's playing well, those two stats are a terrible look when put together. His TD to INT ratio is "good" because he barely throws anything other than little dink and dunk passes. I'd be very curious to know what his TD to INT ratio is on passes that were more than 10 yards downfield, I'd bet it isn't near as good.

He has almost as many fumbles already this season as he had all of last season. At this point it looks like he is regressing with ball security.

His INT% is about career average(1.9, 2.3, 2.2). It's his TD% that is at a career best(2.1, 3.9, 4.9).

There are a few things in life that you shouldn't do in an interaction with another man. Snatching the hat off the head of another man is one of them. That's provocation in any circumstance. That being said. Cam is the elder in this situation and could have handled it differently. But I do think some of these young guys in the TikTok age probably could use a dose of ackrite from time to time. Just my .02 cents.

Bryce is tied for second most in the league for most fumbles lost this season. Tied for third most total fumbles.

What about fumble ratio ?