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The team that showed up today might...At least I'm currently choosing to think so. Let me have my day.

I already did.

You can only play against who's on the schedule. Just saying.

Look, dude, if the price is right, he'd be gone. That's everybody. I've ALWAYS said that. But don't get crazy, one out of seven games does not exactly make you untouchable.

True dat!

This was arguably the best that we've seen by a QB since number 1 was hurt.

Don't get me wrong, I don't give Wilks much chance of losing the "Interim" label, but he mostly did a good job today. Mostly! He looked like an NFL coach today. Anyway, today should be the model as to why you spread the ball around, and actually let guys play as opposed to letting them waste away on the bench. If you open up the playbook, and let guys get an opportunity to execute, good things happen. Relying on one dude for so much of your offense (who is not the QB, of course) is NOT a formula for long term success, especially for a team without a franchise QB. These guys are in the NFL, and when it comes down to it, they should be allowed to contribute, particularly when things are going south and other people aren't getting it done. Great overall win. Nice game plan. Walker looked like a different guy today. If we can beat the Bucs, we should be able to beat just about anybody on any given Sunday.

Walker out there making Joe Montana throws.

Do NOT take your foot off the gas, Wilks!

I ain't gonna say "completely," but his age is catching up with him.

I get you...but, if the price is right...

Brady ain't been doing poo (knock on wood).

He can't execute the plays for the players. Moreover, our defense isn't trash.

Burns got his Brady sack!

Oh! They are playing I'm Charlotte. Damn. I'm halfway checked out.

The ultra conservative, nonconformist weak, pussy-ass bullshit just had to rear its ugly head.

So, in other words you're rooting for the Bucs...

He's better than JAG Foreman.

I mean, sure, but I have a hard time believing that he has to have a young guy because ostensibly all these other teams have young guys (which is somewhat of a red herring).

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/news/panthers-matt-corral-recovery-making-progress/ "Corral will still miss the 2022 season, but his current progress from the Lisfranc injury he suffered during the preseason could set him up for a relatively healthy offseason."

Perhaps you're right. But I think Tepper is hedging. What he's saying is good in theory, but the fact is is that someone has to have the final say...unless they would come up with a plan that both the GM and the HC would have to agree and if not to abandon discussed player. That would be highly unusual if not highly unrealistic. Someone's going to have to have the last word. In that sense, I'm thinking that the power structure almost has to be dependent upon who becomes the HC. Let's say that in Tepper's perfect world that we were able to acquire Payton on the cheap (which I know is not realistic or likely, but this is a hypothetical example), do you actually believe that he wouldn't give Payton that power? And I think the same reasoning applies to Tomlin or Harbaugh. I believe Tepper will look at things on a case-by-case basis. Sure, he has some ideas now, based upon the Rhule error--err, era, but he's ultimately not going to let that hinder him from giving an actual NFL-level coach with a certain body of work more control than he might theorize is correct at this point. Do I think that he'll totally neuter Fitterer? No. But I don't think he'll let Scott stand in the way of perceived progress either. Tepper's mistake was to let an unproven college coach have too much control, and he knows it on some level, if not many levels.

Solid veteran pickup last month before season started.

Jim Harbaugh gonna have a bunch of picks...

Assurances at this point mean about as much as a 1000 dollar bill. In other words, they are probably dumb...unless they're simply playing high stakes chicken.

True, he may just split. But, I would take the two first round picks...just not right away; I'd hold out until closer to the deadline to see if they won't sweeten the offer, or for a better one.