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Time to hit 4000 yards and 30 TDs (including rushing). I don't care about INTs anymore. That's a big part of the problem. He plays uber conservative until the game is on the line. Playing not to lose, instead of playing to win. Time to let it friggin rip from the get. The team can win with a pick or 2 if he has 3-4 TDs. Stop playing scared. But to be fair, his WRs have not been great. You all can bash about 1st round picks and O-line cap all you want. Chuba as your #1 RB his entire career. Adam Thielen as your best WR for 2 of 3 seasons is ridiculous. Then a rookie as your best in the 3rd season. Legette is not a 1st round talent. Probably closer to a 4th if you compare him to Brazzel this year. Coker has been a walking injury report. Nothing else to really speak of at WR or TE. Jimmy Horn has potential, but he is not an NFL starter yet. Oline has been better as run blockers than pass blockers. Ickey has always been so-so as a pass blocking LT. Center has been a revolving door for 3 years. Damien Lewis has been as marketed. Hunt is a great run blocker but an ok pass blocker - when healthy. Moton has been solid at RT. Biggest problem with the oline has been depth. When someone went down, their replacement became a glaring weakness. Overall a good but not great unit the last 2 years. 2023 was a ish show. Nothing else to say. Not one game breaker, take it to the house offensive weapon since DJ Moore. Hopefully we get a little of that from Brazzell. Either way, in his 4th season, it doesn't matter. You have to be able to overcome whatever comes your way. First 3 seasons with a young supporting cast is defendable. Can't use that anymore though. 3rd year in the offense. 3rd year with the same HC.

Don't forget Stefon Diggs in 2024. And Dalton Shultz. Meanwhile old man Thielen was the best WR in Carolina for 2 seasons. But that doesn't matter. Good QBs should be able to elevate subpar players.

Well damn... Hate to see someone not get their money but if he's out here milking injuries then it is what it is.

If this is a lingering injury from last season and he waited until mid May to have surgery...

2003 bye week was week 3. 2015 bye week was week 5. Not an excuse. May work out that the team needs an early break to reset or make changes.

Means they don't know exactly when he'll be back. Same with Ickey. Maybe this season. Maybe next season. TBD

Not this time. Really think he'll play starters more. Too many new and young guys to think they'll just figure it during the regular season.

Darnold is definitely more of a gun slinger. I wish Bryce had some of that. Or at least attempt more deep passes instead of settling for the shorter routes. He took more shots in college. Hopefully we get to consistently see that version of him at some point. I was responding to your post that Bryce took a 6-6 Wilkes team and made them historically bad. The o-line was different in 2023 due to injuries. The best WR was gone - the only good one they had. The coaching philosophy and game plan was different. The defense was different and a lot worse. Completely different situations. Bryce Young could have had success in that 2022 system with those players too. I mean Darnold threw for less than 200 yards a game in a much better situation than rookie Bryce. They won a game that he passed for 43 yards and 2 picks. FYI, Baker beat out Darnold in training camp. Darnold was injured and PJ came in as the backup. They ended up demoting Baker to the scout team as a defensive lineman before trading him. Maybe they released him, can't remember. PJ filled the gap between Baker and Darnold returning from injury. Either way, Wilkes absolutely took the games out of the QBs hands and relied on clock control offense and bend but don't break defense. Canales definitely leaned on a hot run game this year, but he never took the ball out of BYs hands. He gave him a ton of RZ and 3rd/4th down opportunities.

Do you really want the details of a rich, 80 years old's sexual harassment case in the work place? He wouldn't have kept doing it if they all said no. Let that sink in.

I don't think the details will ever come out. Not completely. It would make guys look like scum and/or incompetent. The NFL is a good ol boy league that takes care of their own.

Really think that whole "hunger games" thing did him in. He couldn't control his staff, lost the locker room, and had different coaches giving their rookie QB conflicting instructions. And wasn't there a mole that was reporting everything to Tepper? It was bad. Real bad. He had to go.

Talk about revisionist history... Totally different situations. Did you forget that Wilkes won by playing sound defense and largely taking the ball out of the QBs hand? Donta Foreman pulled a Rico and ran over every team we played. We had an o-line of top tier run blockers, bottom tier pass blockers. We beat the Saints the last game 10-7. Darnold went 5/15 for 43 yards and 2 interceptions - and we won! Even rookie Bryce could have done that. Then all the centers and guards got hurt in 2023 and we had guys coming in off the street starting that had no business doing so. I'd bet alot of them never played another down in the NFL. Had scrubs coming in on Tuesday and starting on Sunday.

That's not true. I've seen him beat linebackers to the goal line and first down marker. Also seen him make LBs and DBs miss in the open field. He'd be a legit running threat if he was better at holding onto the ball. Those fumbles...

Huh? He isn't even a pure pocket passer. Actually may be better off schedule than on. Definitely more exciting out of the pocket. Could be height challenges - most likely. But he's also pretty elusive for a QB. No QB can play with immediate pressure up the middle. None. Ever. But I do agree that Dan overcompensated. That much on OGs is not wise. Particularly for a QB like Bryce that wants to escape the pocket.

And get them actual good WRs first, because you can judge a QB on numbers when he has bad to ok receivers. If he falls after that, then no contract.