MechaZain

For you soccer haters imagine if Matt Rhule ran a scheme only he understood and shuffled players positions every week that's Mr. Lattanzio

We have a chicken and egg situation. Are we not going deep because of his strength or is it some combination of our recievers, bad protection, and that we don't even try to keep defenses honest with play action? Probably all of the above but I believe his arm strength is the least of our concerns there.

Look I hate to defend this team rn but let's not pretend like the pick was a reach. Media consensus was Young over Stroud.

Without a doubt. Same way Rhule fleeced him out of $60 million. Hedgefund man thinks he can come up with an algorithm to get to the Super Bowl.

Think you have to keep him out there at this point. We've made our bed. If Bryce is a bust we could be back drafting QBs as early as 2025. We need to be sure what we have in him before writing off the trade as a loss.

Cam definitely set unrealistic expectations. Bryce has been underwhelming no matter how you slice it but playing at elite level out the gate like Stroud's doing is rare air.

A few key penalties change that entire game. I'm optimistic that he'll learn from his mistakes. They were bad ones this time but I still see more good than bad from him. This loss was mostly on the linemen; Minshew was chilling back there and we had no answer for their pass rush.

this is going in circles but props to y’all for keeping it on topic and civil

That was different because no one was under the impression Rhule wanted Cam back. They had to convince the fanbase he did because all of his actions up to that point had said otherwise. He knew his job rode on the Darnold decision and that’s why he threw him back out there as soon as he saw an opening to bench Cam. This staff absolutely lives or dies by their decision to draft Bryce. I don’t buy that they would put their careers on the line for a QB they didn’t actually want just because their boss showed a preference.

It's been a bad trend here this season, see "the staff wanted Stroud" narrative despite them repeatedly saying the opposite.

Yeah I don't see anything. There's usually an official announcement and he's still listed as practice squad on the website

Chinn’s back to back touchdowns is the only performance since that compares for me. But insane as that was Luvu keeping his foot on their necks all game felt like Luke again.

Is Mrs. Reich available for coaching duties?

The WR this team need is either going to come with drama or be a tire kick in the twilight of their career like Theilen is let's not kid ourselves

Way too early but Miller is dusting Scoot on the stat sheet and is playing as well or better than Wemby. Might mess around and be the next Paul George after all.

Luvu looked like Luke out there

I get the hesitation to trade away more picks but they aren't all equal and shouldn't be treated as such. I think there's better odds of Old Man Hopkins making an impact than some late rounder. I'd trade a 5th without a second thought.

and we wonder why the team is stuck in win now/rebuild limbo

Well we have to go deeper into it than we've been to really utilize him. His skillset's like CMC and our ground game been a lot of power running up the middle. So he has to get up to speed AND the offense needs to evolve a good bit. We may toss him a couple screens though. FWIW, it could be lip service but Tarik thinks he's in the best shape of his career. That ACL is worrisome though because dude's whole thing was making fast cuts.

https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2023/10/17/23920717/miles-bridges-hornets-domestic-violence-child-abuse-nba Good article that sums up my feelings. The team is fugging up royally trying to sweep this under the rug.

Not giving Watson that contract is probably Tepper’s best decision so far

Yeah that proves it you cracked the case Sherlock

Yeah I'm not convinced that the deep ball issue is Bryce's accuracy. More often than not he's throwing it along their route, just too late or too soon. I'm not sure how much getting that timing down is on him vs the recievers but the fact that our best route runner and probably the slowest of the group is the one thriving speaks volumes

Pick two: gamechanger, cheap, young.

Actually, a thread free of the killjoys torpedoing it to remind everyone that that team is bad and hopeless might not be a bad idea.