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The team was overconfident. I listened to the talk from the players and it was as if the game was only a formality. All week. Denver players hear that. I knew it was bad juju to be doing that. We were for sure the better team.

Interesting that no one replied to this. Or am I just the only idiot? Nah, that can’t be true here. I have company. Some contradictory things in there, though I suppose the chronology of the entries could explain that. Talking up offensive guys like Thielen’s 20mph and Chark’s skills after leading off with painting a darker picture with the “multiple coverage sacks” is mostly where that comes from but some other things. There are some ominous overtones in Burns’ comments about his contract, and winning. I get wanting to be on a winning team. I get wanting to be paid like other guys who do what you do. At the same time those ‘keeping up with the Jones’ motivated contract demands are counter to wanting to win, at a point. Not saying he is there but it sounds like he knows where some leverage is and is willing to use it.

I am thinking he is 24, would be helped by playing and would just be a year older and just as raw if they stash him which helps no one really. Thinking that since they stated they were looking to use him at first only as an edge setter in the run game, that he will at least be able to contribute something. Even if he sucks at rushing the passer.

I am sure people were touting us, I don’t even need to look. It happens almost every year. And Cam had actually proven something so it had some validity. This year? That is a ton of ‘if’ and ‘maybe’ being substituted for ‘is’.

Never been to an NFL practice. The sloppy tackling we see weekly around the league is probably a clue.

Thank you. Do teams actually line up and go O vs D intrasquad scrimmage style anymore? I looked at some video of the first padded practice and saw 7 on 7 no tackling.

When is the first real scrimmage? I want to see it for real. Almost real.

Last year though, there were some things that happened. I was not happy with his play okay, don’t misunderstand me, but Wilks came here to coach him and Horn and Jackson etc but was snatched up into other responsibilities. Maybe that didn’t help CJ or the entire back end for that matter. IOW maybe there is some hope he gets it.

Is the OL being improved why CMC over there won’t leave?

I think he is already achieved Cam status with a lot of people. it will be like this if you question anything We really doing this? What’s wrong with y’all

In fairness Mashall Jr was hurt some around that time.

It has a shelf life, and if he does great it extends. If Reich and the all star cast fail, it extends. Big time, then. I mean, just look at who they brought in that couldn't do any better.... Even if the Panthers win, it is with his players. Need him to flame out in huskerville, then that is who he talks about.

I started to write about how Covid was a valid excuse especially for new hires/new systems, but realized that others got markedly better results under the same circumstances. Then I remembered that I never listened to him when he was the coach of the Panthers, I am definitely not wasting my time listening to him now that he isn’t. He isn’t worth it.

I am chuckling to myself about what if we did hire him and he said that about our ex coach? Not Wilks though, Rhule. What would be typed here? And people would be falling over each other to be first do it too…. FAS.

Heh, it seems as if we are still on his 7 year plan, just without him.

If I were running things and I know people here are glad I’m not but… I would start Dalton in the regular season. The first couple of games are crapshoots to start with. #1 is the old 4th preseason game and they play like it is preseason. #2 is the old 1st regular season game, where all bets are off as it is only the first game. Upside down stuff always happens the first week, If you have seen enough seasons you know this. Okay keep Bryce Young or any other rookie QB I have, out of those games. Try to steal one with the vet at QB while the team develops. The OL needs to gel at game speed. Ditto for every other unit. We have totally new coaching even for many returning players. A new defense. Let them gel some and then put the kid in so he will have a better acclimated situation to step into. That is what I would do. I doubt they do that.

I wrote a ton. Delete. I won’t forget his mistake and it certainly did cost us but it is tough to make assumptions about things that didn’t happen. Like if he did his job. He didn’t. We still might have lost. I’d like to watch that game again though, can anyone say how to do that? Free, preferably lol.

We let Julius Peppers walk. I guess that is a joke or something. Okay Ha. Ha. I do see the possibility that Burns becomes truly disruptive in a 3-4 and transcends the average. But if he does not, with what he is about to be paid, he won’t be a good deal.

It isn’t possible to know what the future holds but 17 games say that everyone will be needed. Stranger things have happened than a backup being put into the job because he was next man up. Kurt Warner says hi. Tom Brady is waving too.

It actually could. That poo is scary. But this place puts filters on words so they come out nice. Poo. Stupid as hell if you ask me but nonetheless that is the way of this corner of the internet world. I don’t feel like that dildo is any less disgusting than poo being left to be poo. The consistent thing would be to whitewash it like the language -make every dildo show up not as a dildo but as a pic of a Steely Dan album cover. Since they got their name from a dildo and all.

Every year so many things are different though. You can’t play last year’s NO, Atl, and TB teams this year.

I never understood how it was supposed to work, the way Gettleman had it figured. He was wrong, period, and should know better after spending a life in football. His reasoning was get a big target. But the target being missed will just get missed higher or taller. Because inaccuracy is inaccuracy at 6’ or 7’ or 10’. You get a tall receiver you literally gain a few inches over a short one. That’s about it. If the ball is much higher no one is gonna reach it. If you can’t hit a target that is above sea level by 6 feet you won’t be accurate trying to hit a 7’ high target. Because you aren’t throwing at a 6’ target anymore, and figuring you miss it by three feet so the taller longer arms guy is going to be able to reach something over the head of a shorter player, is bad figuring. I am spending hundreds of words trying to verbalize the point but basically you don't fix inaccuracy by moving the target to where the misses are. The aim will be there, and the misses will no longer miss there. So get me a guy who can jump and catch and separate from coverage, and get the quarterback to get his mechanics together. If he is tall, whatever, but no more lumbering natural tight ends with iffy hands in the first round, please. I loved Gettleman his first year because of the draft of two DTs where we had not had any quality since Jenkins left. And I am a believer in having big guys up front that will win the point of attack on both sides of the ball. Book should be written and done after his second chance in NYC was kind of more evidence against him being really good at his job.

I wonder if he will thrive in the 3-4. Might make him a lot or cost him a lot, depending on how that goes.

Man, sometimes it's too much.

I lost most of any respect I had for Fox in 2010. He earned that too. JR was too cheap to fire him, Fox just sat and collected the checks with no shits given about the team or fans.