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Hence the second paragraph. Stop being stupid is my message to the coaching staff. This poo is not as complex as they seem to want us to believe.

You may have a good point.

Canales has shown more than Bryce. Get rid of Bryce, bring in a FA and let him pick a qb in the draft that actually fits anything he wants to do. Bryce is the exact opposite of every scheme Canales has ever been part of. I think thats why he was so fast to bench him when he got here.

Worst point differential in the league since being hired, doesn’t have full roster control, constant in game dumb moves, terrible roster management for the half he does have. But hey he can scratch together 50 yard game winning field goals against the worst teams in the league. Gotta give him that.

Sports media actually became unwatchable at a pace that was substantially faster than traditional news media. It was wild to see. I generally blame ESPN overall. They started this BS that everyone copies now. But, the real ultimate blame goes to the viewers. Any of these people that watch this First Take hogwash or Stephen A. Bayless nonsense are the reason we get this crap. If you stopped watching this fuging fake drivel, none of us with a functioning brain would have to put up with it.

Yess Yesssss! Tepper.......every one knows my feeling on the Tepper topic.

I don’t fundamentally disagree about Canales being weak. Honestly and maybe unfortunately for me, I think he sounds feminine. Have said so. And don’t think that plays in a super competitive hyper masculine environment such as a football locker room. If he is great at his job people will overlook something like that I think but he isn’t so far. It is a given that he wasn’t ready for the job experience wise. So you have a strike there. But at the root of it he is here because of Bryce Young. No one wanted the job and people say it was Tepper but come on, look at it and tell me that coaches are gonna line up to risk their career when Bryce being locked in as your QB is part of the deal. And he really was the deal with the hiring. So the only way I think we could come out with a possible upgrade is getting rid of both Canales and Young. Maybe a quality coaching candidate becomes more interested when being allowed to pick his QB. At the same time, could Canales’ lerformance improve with a real QB? That is a fair question too. edit: I forgot the continuity card. I think it is supremely important and I think it is a major contributor to our years of dysfunction under Tepper. We have some good things going on there and I believe we should be cautious about disrupting it.

Agreed!

Most of you guys would be worse than Tepper if you were owners. He is 2/3rds of the way through his second season and we are half a game behind the division lead and have more wins than we have had in years. Has Canales done some dumb things? 1000% he has. Has he outcoached some coaches that are really good? Definitely, especially this season. All young coaches make mistakes and stupid decisions and have to gain experience. You cant just fire an inexperienced coach every year and a half Tepper wannabes.

For a completely washed Dalton with a busted thumb on his throwing hand? Morgan fugged Dave. Dave might suck. But he is fugged at the QB spot from the jump this year with nowhere to go. So going to Dalton doesn't do anything but set Dave up to look bad. I mean, Hubbard should of started over Rico to start the season. I get the switch wasn't flawless but I sort of get that being a little muddy. Hubbard is probably the actual leader on that O. That's a tough pull. I think Canales is in a really tough spot. We fug it all up. The right path was moving on from Bryce after 2 weeks into the Canales era. They almost had it right. We should of never gone into this season w/ Bryce it was always going to be a pointless mess. I think Dave is in a can't win situation. Playing to win has a lot of bad in the big picture. Not hiding Bryce is bad. He has no real option to bench Bryce.

I think so. I'm still agitated over the game.

Why? They won't run one let alone both. Normally I would agree but not with this crew and not when looking at the oline cap issue they are walking into in the offseason. They have that man on the cheap and still won't keep leaning on him. Damn waste

Even if the conspiracy is true, that makes Canales a bad head coach. If you have to simp to the whims of the least knowledgeable person in the entire organization(David Tepper) then what fuging good are you? How is that a real coach at all?

I'm like everyone else........Shhhhhtt

I mean, pay em both, IDGAF. IF we plan on continuing to be a power rushing offense. And, maybe actually act like that for once? All this schizophrenic game planning(or really just piss poor) is infuriating. I get that this team isn't good. Believe me, we all get that. But when you have opportunities to beat teams, do what it takes to win. Not be considerate of people's feelings or worry about being fair or what it looks like to do X, Y or Z. Win. The. fuging. Game.

A good coach would have won those games in spite of Bryce, would have know the difference and wouldn't have let Bryce come back for a year 4. They would tell the GM and owner that they can have that QB or him if they were thinking of not following his needs. Look at teams like the 49ers or Cheifs that walked from A Smith who was getting them into the playoffs for other QBs. That crap doesn't fly with good coaches. And decent owners know it too.

I hate conspiracy thinking, but I have a hard time rejecting this idea. It's either that or Canales is the stupidest coach the NFL has seen in a long time, and while I don't know if he's a good coach, I don't think he's that stupid. Of course, like somebody else suggested he might have gone along with it for the opposite reason, to prove that Bryce can't do it so Canales can have a fair shot next year without him. Either way, it's pretty clear that Tepper is going to have to have the idea that Bryce sucks pounded in his head a hundred times.

He is not worse than Rhule. Please stop.

Canales was def a premature hire for HC/OC combo...he isn't Andy Reid, McVay, etc. We also wouldn't have landed him if he was a real proven commodity. So far I think the investment has paid off, we'll see if he continues to improve since the margin gets thinner and thinner as your team gets better. We look back fondly on Rivera and the attitude the team had, but he was on the edge of getting canned before he finally said fug it and went all in. It's frustrating as all hell to watch at times rn, but the team is trending in the right direction...it just gets harder as you move up the ladder to overtake the next team.

Then bench him. Or don't make him the centerpiece of the offense(literally from his own mouth) in a very winnable game. Canales offensive personnel management is absolutely abysmal. We see it over and over. Corbett starting over Mays at C(or starting at C at all), Chuba over Rico for "reasons", Bryce over anyone for "reasons." It's constant. XL, Coker, Sanders, Horn Jr., Evans, etc, etc. He is an a below average coach with bottom 2-3 personnel evaluation capabilities.

As far as the head coaching goes, both offensive and defensive sides have issues. Offensive guys get too smart for their pants or are too soft. Defensive guys tend to have tougher teams but also become the biggest offensive issue. We lost a SB because of that and Houston is wasting a QB because their HC wants to build the best D instead. It's all one coin with two sides, both have positives and negatives. I want a HC that can see that dynamic and not avoid it like Ron did. Too few teams run in that space and all of them have had or are having success

this is exactly starting to look like the Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch drama all over again with Bryce and Rico everyone in the front office wants Bryce to look good and have all the spotlight instead of handing the ball to Rico for a TD

Currently.

Yes. Worse than Seifert. Worse than Rhule. I think Frank was actually better, he just had rookie Bryce and couldn’t do poo with him.