Martin

I fully agree on the o-line, and overall I’m optimistic long term. We are building an offense to give strong support to a QB. Oline, RB (Brooks as starter, Chuba as rb2), WR (Dionte is a very good starter) and TE. At QB, it will most likely not be Bryce (I hope I’m wrong), but we are setting our current or future QB up for success, and that is my reason for optimism even though this year might be a bit rough with Bryce at the helm.

So everyone but himself said he had a good day. He holds himself to a very high standard and expects more from himself. And now that is a bad thing? Am I missing something?

I hope I’m wrong and that he has a spectacular year. That would be something. The analysis is based on the biggest difference between Bryce optimists and pessimists. The optimist “saw a lot of flashes of greatness”, while the pessimist did not. I certainly didn’t see the level or amount of flashes needed to be an upper level starting QB in this league. But again, hopefully I’m completely wrong.

I’ve seen just a few highlights so far, but he is showing a lot of energy and fearlessness, don’t forget he’s only 18. Exciting stuff!

Summer league games don’t count for much, but it sure is nice to see us wanting to win and playing with urgency vs. getting clobbered every summer.

To me it felt sarcastic when he said two firsts. He knew there was no chance, especially with the contract Burns would command. But obviously we should have sent on if the huddles many master negotiators, that would have guaranteed 10-15 first rounders.

I hope we have an improved pass rush, but time will tell. One thing I feel really good about is our run defense. Massive upgrade compared to last year. Clowney vs. Burns in the run game isn’t even a competition.

I’m happy for Lebron and his son, how awesome is that, being able to play together, dad and son? There should be 0 negatives about this. But I don’t care about it as in sports coverage. And this is the exact reason why I never watch anything but live games (and the draft). The focus on a few individuals or certain “star sportscasters” has diminished most of the value of sportscenter etc. for me.

I also thinks he deserves the season. I don’t think he has it in him to become a starting caliber QB in the NFL, but we need to let it play out. The one thing I do disagree with you on is his deep ball, it was not good in college, and stats back that up. I think we built this team (new Gs etc.) for a young QB, but I don’t necessarily think the team is convinced that is Bryce. If he plays as expected this year we will draft a new QB in 2025, and that QB will come in to a very good situation.

After reading a bit more about Tidjane, youngest player in the draft at 18, with a lot of potential. Seems like a prudent gamble in this draft. We are not looking to win a lot next year, our core is super young, so I like it. I also don’t care if we couldn’t develop talent in the past. Brand new coaching staff. They might not be able to, but at this point we really don’t know. So I’m good with this draft.

Who did you want at this pick? I don’t know much about him, but I don’t really know of any players at this point.

I don’t know much about him, but here is the take from CBS Sports:

I think it is great they are giving money to support charity. They’ve done a lot for the community in their time here. A lot of people will significantly feel the positive impact from it. For all of you complaining about it, good grief, seek some help. Can they do more? Sure. But this organization now has $3M more then they had yesterday to help people, and that is great thing.

Of course it has a positive spin to it, why in the world would any team send out a negative narrative? I found it interesting to get a feel for how the new coaches communicate, what’s their energy like, how intentional they are with the players etc. Good or bad, it is night and day vs. last years staff. That’s a good thing for me. I always enjoy these this time of year.

There seems to be a lot of confusion between consensus value and your own personal preference. He was a 3rd rounder among most respected analysts (Dane Brugler etc.). We drafted him in the third round. Hence it was not some kind of crazy reach. Very different from DJ Johnson last year.