Mr. Scot

I've been saying since his second season that I wish they'd move him to guard and look for a different left tackle. He seems to have done better this season though, enough that several people are talking about paying him as a left tackle.

I already know I'm probably going to regret asking this, but I haven't kept up on college football much over the last month or more, so I'll go ahead and ask: What happened at Michigan to get the coach tossed?

Neither would I, and I've said that previous years as well. But there were rumors that Tepper really liked him and wanted to hand him the keys to the franchise. That idea made me cringe

Anymore? Yeah, pretty much

Over previous years? Sure is

An odd little vibe I've noticed here of late: some folks are "all or nothing" to an absolutely extreme level when it comes to Bryce. Here's a bit of truth telling though: There are, in fact, things Bryce does well. Likewise, there are areas in which he's improved over his time here. He has, on several occasions now, legitimately helped us win games. On the flipside, there have been failures in other areas as well as coaching that we're not in any way his fault. And finally , it is also genuinely possible that the team may see him as the future, even if we don't. The craziest part, though? It's actually possible that they're right and we're wrong. All of this is true, and more, yet if you accept any of these premises people go from zero to apesh-t in under three seconds Anything less than total disavowal of Bryce and / or agreement that he's the worst QB of all time and suddenly you're a "stan". Oy The reality though? Bryce is indeed an NFL quarterback. Not a great one, probably backup level good, and I've seen way worse. Now, if you run that statement through your personal Google translator and it comes back with some version of "I want to throw 50 million a year at Bryce for the next 10 years", that's not really my issue it's yours I don't wanna make him the franchise quarterback, but it's not my call. Win or lose, the team is going to do what they think is best. And as always, if it disagrees with what I think we should do, I'm gonna hope I'm the one who's wrong. Internet clout means nothing. Watching my favorite team win at my favorite sport meas fun

Interesting Gonna have to watch the distribution in the future...

And then we proceeded to have an OC design plays around a zone blocking scheme in Young's rookie season. I remember that discussion well.

No, and that was an issue we hadwith Rivera. We used to joke about making a list of all of the things Rivera learned too late. I'm still cautiously optimistic about Canales at the moment, but we'll see.

He did use a more balanced approach (at least in the early part of the game) and called some of the plays that he should have been calling the first time when we were facing heavy pressure. I give him credit for that. There are most definitely issues that need fixing though.

Two weeks in the case of that game... From what I've seen, Canales is at least capable of learning from his mistakes. That's a plus, at least.

We took some abuse from Cam Jordan last game, but it's not like that hasn't happened before.

To be fair, calling Legette a "first round receiver" is a little misleading. I would agree though that the OL has generally been good, especially when you tractor in all the injuries.

I was referring to changes that he made from one game to the next. In game is another story.

I felt like he did a good job fixing the issues from the first Saints game, for example. Although I admit mid second half it did kind of feel like he was going back to old tendencies.

I'd say one of the other things you have to factor in here is the question of whether Canales is the kind of coach that adapts his system to his players or vice versa. Going off what we see with Young, I'm gonna say it's probably the former.

Lots of things This particular debate isn't one of them though

Can't I'm currently surrounded by parrots Today's actually a pretty lazy day though. (retirement has its perks)

I'm going off what I've read from the Chiefs in the past. They certainly had way better ownership than us (the Hunt family) and neither Reid nor GM Brett Veach is known for being authoritarian. Hell, What reporters were shocked A while back when I asked to read about a personnel situation and he deferred to Veach. So no, nothing I can say definitively. The one thing I do feel comfortable saying about Tepper in that he's been publicly embarrassed by the team's results. And I genuinely believe that's an effective motivational thing for him.

So it is My default course of action if I don't remember something is to look it up. I was actually in the process of doing that when you answered. I can see it's gonna be a great day

Yeah, I didn't get the impression any of you guys would be trying to convince him to stay.

Agree about Tepper, but we did hear inside chatter that Dan was the one guy who was Never afraid to tell him he was wrong. Likewise, I have a hard time believing a guy from the Chiefs environment would be okay with that sort of situation.

I don't honestly even remember who his starting TE was in 2023 (his only OC season). He has made at least some use of our TEs this season but I get the feeling that after last year they were expecting more from Sanders than were currently getting.

Understood, but this is still a pretty bad look for the league. They don't really want these kinds of conversations.

Well, there's no cap on front office spending, so at least if he needs to pay out the wazoo to get people there, nothing's stopping it.