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We have enough talent to have a winning season if Baker plays really well. If not, then we're looking at 6-7 wins imo. We'll know in the first 3 games how the season is going to go. We need to start 3-0.

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Go watch this for a laugh, or to feel some pain depending on your personality.

It's funny thinking about Teddy's ending here. I remember in the weeks leading up the end of the season Rhule had been harping on how none of his players were allowed to reach the ball out at the goal line. He had been telling players and the media that we don't do that. Then the last game of the season (I think the last) Teddy stuck the ball out at the goal line and I think he fumbled on 3rd down. I'm sure Rhule was ready to strangle him.

Who is the lady on the right?

That sign isn't going to stop mistakes from being made, but it will certainly humiliate the multimillionaire grown men who have to go over and touch it.

Basically the HC and GM have to land a top tier QB or prospect. Otherwise you're team, no matter what you do with the scheme or overall talent, will be either lower tier or a bottom feeder. I don't care about outlier teams that had a good season with a lower tier QB. Sustained success comes from having a highly talented QB. Fitt and Rhule failed with Teddy, Sam, and Cam. We now have Baker and at some point Rhule and Fitt will be dumped for bringing in QBs who are not good enough for sustained success. Teddy was good enough to allow us to beat bottom tier teams, and miracle out a win here or there against a better team. Not anywhere near good enough to expect playoff wins no matter what we did in team building. The crazy thing was that we all expected just that before he even started for us. With Sam I had no positive expectations whatsoever. I expected him to fail, and he did exactly that. How is it that Huddlers knew better than our GM and HC? Our expectations played out, and their expectations were WAY off. Not even close. Fitt and Rhule will be fired in a few years imo. They can't find QBs.

I want coaches who have proven their talent at the NFL level. College OCs can go to a big school and have track stars outrun DBs and look like geniuses. College HCs can make a great sales pitch and recruit above what the school should be able to get, but that doesn't translate to the NFL.

I knew when Robby was out there telling the team we needed to run some hitch and go routes because the opposing defense was sitting our routes and we did nothing but run the same poop add nausea Joe was a problem. He didn't adjust the offense, we just ran the same poop the whole game. One CMC went down it was over. Yes Sam is terrible, but Joe doesn't adjust.

Our offense will be play action pass to try and free up targets for Mayfield to make easier throws. That will work just fine given our talent level UNLESS CMC is injured. If we lose CMC then it's a poop show until he returns.

On the surface I am thrilled with our secondary. Physically we have two number 1 CBs, and a number 2 CB. We have not had this much talent at CB since we had Lucas and Gamble, at least on the surface. If Horn and Henderson play up to their talent level, then we'll be able to be very aggressive on defense. And then we have DJax playing wherever (slot) and Chinn at Safety. Yikes we've got a lot of talent in the secondary. Doesn't matter at all though for 2022 because we don't have a top QB. Teams will eat up our secondary because we'll throw too many picks and they'll run our defense to death. 2023 we'll draft a top QB and then we'll be in business.

The cameras might catch the QB coach drinking hard liqueur on the job.

Has Sam made any comments?

Baker is better than Sam, but I have a feeling BOA is going to be empty by the middle of the season. That's a lot money to spend on the QB position for an empty stadium. This plan had better work or that could be it for Rhule and Fitt imo.

Rhule has until the end of his contract to produce a good team imo. I've always thought that.

We need to follow a basic rule, when a team is dying to get rid of a QB they've had for multiple seasons and drafted high STAY AWAY. The Jets knew Darnold better than Rhule and Fitt and they wanted his ass gone.

My expectation is that we win around 6 games. We're a bad QB team, but we'll beat some other bad QB teams because we've been drafting high for some time now. We'll run into to teams that have less talent and are rebuilding. That being said, I fully expect an awful season. Unless Sam has somehow learned how to play QB we're toast.

Physically he has all the tools to be a #1 CB. I think it's the mental side of the game that is holding him back. If he catches on to our defense he can be dominant. If he doesn't then he won't be offered a second contract.

It's like Fitt has been saying lately about these cast off QBs, you have to ask why teams want to get rid of them. We know why.

Sam looked perfectly mediocre to me when we had CMC out on the field. Take CMC away, and add defenders going though our o-line like it wasn't even there and you get the worst version of Sam. Sam the terrible.

So what adjective would you use for Sam?

We already have plenty of mediocre QBs on the roster. There is no reason whatsoever to add another one.