SmokinwithWilly

Considering there was a thread about it 12 hours ago that was moved to the tinderbox you're a little behind in your posting.

How many can you trust though based on the results of the past few years?

Stroud has a wee bit more success than Bryce. Bryce looking bad is the norm, not the anomaly. He's not able to execute the most basic decision making during plays, especially when he was touted as this master processor. Its year 3 and he looked like a rookie in preseason. The play calling is blah but I'm not so sure its not because of Bryce being unable to do more.

Already in the tinderbox.

So is BY. We thought Darnold and Baker were dogsh*t but a change seems to have made a difference. I'd offer straight across if they'd take it. Nothing to lose in reality. Maybe get lucky and he actually finds his potential or more than likely he train wrecks into the top 2 picks with Miami. Doesnt really matter either way, but I forgot what it looks like to see a ball sail 40 yards with the flick of the wrist from a Carolina QB. I dream of watching TMac catch a 60 yard in the air TD.

Im waiting a couple more weeks to see if Jones looks consistently good in Indy and making a very low end offer for AR because he will be on the outs. Is he going to suck? More than likely. But can he actually make the throws physically to open up the field? Yes. We've got suck right now and Dalton isn't going to change that. Who knows what could happen. But a full season of what we saw Sunday will cost DC the locker room.

I criticized Evero earlier today in another thread about not being able to figure out how to use players.

Maybe because once again, a 1st round pick has gone to adding another piece for BY. 2nd round edge rushers are rarely going to be massive impact players as rookies and our LB corps is thinner than porta-potty TP. Our defense isn't good because our resources have been spent on our offense. If we had spent 3 years worth of resources on defense, this conversation would be more than warranted.

Nearly every resource the last 3 years has gone into surrounding BY. There has been little to devote to the defense and Bryce still looks completely out of his depth.

That's about all he did. Unfortunately there's that whole rest of the draft and roster building thing that he sucked at doing. If Hurney is the best we can do in 3 decades, that's not really something to brag about.

We couldn't do worse than Hurney 2.0, Fittershits and Morgan.

Or the franchise LT that we wouldn't even consider because his arms were an inch to short. After all, who needs a franchise left tackle when you have THE Greg Little watching your backside.

We've tried to get too fancy when we clearly lack talent all around. Stop worrying about RAS scores and elite athleticism and just draft guys that can play. We've wasted picks on raw prospects with potential instead of drafting IOL, then paying guys on the inside instead of spending it on defense where it was necessary. Chinn goes to another system and does really well and Evero couldnt even figure out how to get him on the field, and when he was he was out of position so it made him play like ass. We just seem to do the most ass backwards things over and over again. FFS, this really cant be that difficult can it?

Don't disagree but if we were determined to go with a RB, Corum was close in pre draft ranking to Brooks.

I guarantee it makes a difference. Give up 2 scores and its basically over until garbage time. The offense can barely drive the length of the field in 3 quarters. The defense has been gutted to build around a QB that is possibly the biggest bust in NFL history. For what we've put into the offense the past 3 years, we should be dropping 30 bombs with regularity. The only 30s we get are FGs.

Tepper is the source of the disease.

Without any real effort those 1st 3 picks could have been Ladd McConkey - WR Zach Frazier - C Blake Corum - RB 2 difference makers and a highly ranked RB if we had still wanted to go that direction. It was so simple and it was hard not to screw up, yet....

I dont think Shadeur would have dropped as far if he had handled the draft process better. Having his own draft showroom setup and then all the BS involving his dad turned a lot of teams off. I thought he was worth it in the 4th or 5th because we had nothing to lose and it was low risk, high reward. At this point I'm just so tired of the Huddle being right more often than the experts.

Why take a 2nd round QB when you can trade up for an injured running back thats a bigger bust than Eric Shelton.

Id prefer to fire both but DC has had to coach with one hand tied behind his back. He relies on. A QB that can make chunk throws and we'll, that ain't BY. Morgan on the other hand has taken a master class from Scott Fittershits University of Drafting and Management and this is the result. He needs to go.

In order to compensate for BY outside of garbage time, our defense needs to be one of the best in NFL history to even stand a chance at winning a game. That's too much to ask of a group of guys week in and week out.

If that were true, we would have actually brought in some competition for BY. Theres 52 other guys on this team that deserve a shot at winning. You want to do guys a solid. Compete. That way when they want to do what AT did it looks like a solid, not just a guy that wants to get off the Titanic before it sinks.

AR is extremely raw but he's a better fit for a DC type offense, and he's rumored to be on the outs in Indy. I'd trade BY for AR and see what happens. We need a new QB at the end of the season anyway. Why not.

I don't think our defense sucks as bad as everyone thinks it does. That doesn't mean they're good by any stretch, but they literally have no chance to win. None. Our offense is absolute dog poo led by a PS QB. You can play as hard as you want, but these guys have got to be demoralized as hell knowing if they give up a touchdown, in all likelihood the game is over. You're right, Cam would change this locker room. Cam's energy was infectious and he would never put up with the poo we're seeing now. It makes a difference when you believe you have a fighting chance to win. Get Bryce off the field. Dalton, Hooker, Plummer, hell straight up trade for AR at this point. Get him off this damn team.

He doesn't have to be there for the day to day. It's is he present when its big deal day like trading up to 1, rejecting a Rams ransom for Burns, giving total control to guys with little to no experience in key positions? Dave's few big decisions are more destructive than any day to day meddling could hope to be.