FuFuLamePoo

Don't get me wrong I have plenty of beef with him, but right now I'm not even too mad at him specifically? The Rhule hire was a disaster. He knows, you know it. We all know it. But it's not like he doubled down and made the same mistake again. Instead of hiring an unknown, this time around he tried to play it safe by hiring a guy that had like 5 winning seasons in 6 years at his previous post. While being one of the most respected and universally loved coaches in the league. The complete inverse of Rhule. He showed a clear willingness to learn from his mistakes and hired who we thought would at least be a solid coach while surrounding said coach with an all star cast of assistants. We all loved these moves. It's like a curse has been placed on the franchise because I'm at a loss for how and why things look so bad right now. This same group basically went 7-10 last year and now we clearly look like the leagues worst team except maybe the Bears. What happened? Like, if Tepper had gone from Rhule to some other unknown wildcard coach I'd be way more angry. But that's not what he did. I'm at a complete loss for what is happening right now and why it's happening.

I didn’t pay that much but I also made a lifelong dream come true when buying PSLs a few years ago. Now it just feels like a burden to even keep going. I have zero clue how I’ll find the motivation to go next week. This is absolutely pathetic

There isn’t one positive. Cams rookie year we started out losing but they were fun losses. We got highlight reel plays every week and knew the future was bright. there isn’t one bright spot on this team. We’re bad on both sides of the ball. Cardinals are looking way better with a much worse roster

Not taking that Burns deal will be looked back on as one of the worst decisions in franchise history. Imagine how different we would feel right now if we currently had a 2024 first and two 2025 firsts in the cupboard

Good lord he’s brutal at his job isn’t he

We aren’t winning a game

This isn’t how the team has been operating though. If they truly believed this they would have taken the Burns deal. I agree we SHOULD be rebuilding, but the moves we have been making are that we are a “QB away,” and now that we have that guy it’s time to win. Any team who thought they were rebuilding loads up on draft picks and we are literally doing the opposite of that.

There’s no way you think he’s a better prospect than Bryce

I think the frustrating thing is the Falcons were able to erase a 12 point fourth quarter lead. If we even get down by 7 at any point in any game it basically feels over. We do not produce big plays. Every thing has to always go in our favor to win a game

Falcons 2-0 Bucs 2-0 We lose tomorrow Saints will also be 2-0 and we’ll be 0-2, effectively ending our season. Not that any of us expected playoffs this season anyways

We never said he was a bad player. We said that was a talented draft class with more valuable pieces in it, I wanted CD or Wirfs on draft night and I’d still prefer either of those over DB currently. For the record, we drafted DB to stop the run and got gashed on the ground Sunday. Obviously that’s not his fault, I just don’t see him as an elite game altering player.

I'm really hoping Reich and this staff understand this. The days of "defenses win championships" are simply over. It's nothing more than a nostalgic facade of the days of the past. Even the rules are geared towards offense now. None of this is to say you ignore your defense, but we absolutely should solely focus on building the offense right now.

Yeah, you'll get flamed for this but I wholeheartedly agree with this. One issue with our franchise is we can never go all in on anything. Everything is half assed. Look at how the Bengals have built around Burrow, the Chargers around Herbert, the Dolphins around Tua. You. Just. Never. Stop. Adding. Weapons. We have our QB (or so we hope). What our QB does not have is an adequate supporting cast. The stats yesterday are ugly as our receivers created the least separation of any unit in the league yesterday. This is an awful situation to drop a rookie QB into. And the problem is, if the history of our franchise tells us anything, we'll probably find one above average receiver for him one day and it'll be straight mediocrity around him the rest of his career. I'm at the point where I want every pick to be a pass catcher until we find like five really good ones. Everything else can wait until later. Selling off the valuable pieces on our team and reinvesting into building an all star cast around Bryce is legitimately a great team building strategy. But we'll never, ever think like that so we just have to hope we stumble ass backwards into maybe a pair of solid receivers really soon.

See this move I’ll defend all day. Without that trade we would have had the ninth pick. Our options would have been Will Levis or another year of San Darnold. We couldn’t afford to wait and hope we would be bad enough for Caleb/Drake. Last offseason was the time to make the move and if it came at the expense of DJ, so be it. Was Bryce the right choice? It’s obviously far too soon to say. But the trade up was a totally justifiable move and I’d even call it a great one. How they rebuilt the WR room already looks troubling to the say the least. Mingo is actually promising, but it’s not good when a mid second round rookie is the best target your rookie QB has to throw to. I’m not sure if any of our receivers are running quicker than a 4.6 right now. Thielen was a great player in his prime but he’s clearly toast and we gave him three years. Again - that’s a troubling move. The WR’s were never going to be great this year, but there were potentially better veterans out there whether in FA or in the trade market. Bryce really needs someone with a quick release that gets open quickly and we have no one capable of doing that.

We just can’t keep using that excuse forever. At a minimum we know he was a part of the scouting/evaluation process.

I think you nailed it. It's funny because he's played for a million teams but watching this game today I was thinking about how even a guy like Brandin Cooks could help our team so much right now. We basically need someone that has a super quick and twitchy release that can reliably get open quickly on quick slant routes and such.

That just isn't true. Kyle Shanahan is able to scheme someone open almost every play. Other coaches are able to do it also. We've just never had one or we haven't had the talent at receiver.

I've seen the last thing a few times but I only saw him throw two deep balls? The one could have been complete if lazy ass TMJ didn't stop running his route. Other one he missed for sure.

He looked rough and scared to take chances but I also think the film could tell a new story. I think by far our most glaring issue is our receivers do not get open.

See I actually feel okay about this because knowing what we know about Bryce and how much extra work he puts in when it comes to breaking down film I really think he'll get that cleaned up asap. The glaring concern with Bryce and/or the offense as a whole is we look incapable of pushing the ball 10+ yards down the field. Everything was underneath today

I mean being a fan is so fun. It may be 10 years away but one day we'll be good again and it'll be worth it. I've gotten so used to losing though I kind of just laugh at it now.

Yes, todays performance actually reminded me of 2010. I was too young in 01 seeing as I was born in 96 I wasn't really watching football yet

This has nothing to do with the Bryce trade which I'm still fine with. Let's go through the list: Jaycee Horn - always hurt Terrace Marshall - can't be bothered enough to even try finishing a route, also always hurt Tremble -useless Corrall - out of the league already These are only the day two picks, not a single day 3 pick he's made has made any sort of impact either. Let's keep going though. Traded a day two pick for CJ Henderson. Signed Miles Sanders who's fumble changed the entire game today. Is playing hardball with by far the best player on the team after turning down a lucrative trade package to move him. Again I'm still fine with the Bryce trade as I obviously think he's someone we can build the future of our franchise around. But he's made multiple other high leverage moves/picks that have been nothing short of disastrous so far. Without serious turnaround/growth from this roster he should absolutely get canned come January.

Not much else to say. One of the worst performances not just in our franchise history, but one of the worst games I've seen from any NFL team ever. Defense looked alright at times, but even they had the benefit of playing maybe the worst QB in the league. Jaycee Horn is already hurt again, and our only other really promising player is the one who our current GM is playing hardball with. There are some okay players on this team but there is no one I'd categorize as elite. No one in the tier of Cam, Luke, Olsen, Davis type of players that we have had in the past. Even the players we have that are good the Ws/Ls don't seem to matter too much to them. None of these guys appear bothered to try. Bryce was awful but in his defense I don't think we have a receiver capable of getting open down the field right now.

Bryce should maybe make sure he knows where Bates is here