Mr. Scot

Yeah, that was pure bullsh-t. They did at least get him before game's end though, and at a crucial time. If they were ever gonna flag him, that was the time to Day it.

Re: Marshall The guy who pushed the team to draft him got (deservedly) fired in the middle of his second season as OC. Then the guy who hired and fired him got fired, so in a way he's "orphaned" as a Panther. He's got talent, and great physical traits. Those things alone don't make a great player though, and Marshall has struggled to put it together. My biggest question is whether or not Shawn Jefferson can bridge the gap between what he is and what they think he could be. My guess? He'll play out the season and be allowed to seek work elsewhere next year. But we'll see.

This'll be something to watch.

He's technically still with them, but in a lesser role. Reported to be good friends with David Tepper though.

Not sure what to make of this game. The Eagles didn't look as good as last year in Week 1, and the Vikings are still hard to get a read on. They've got a load a talent though.

He wasn't cut, actually still isn't. That story's still playing out...in very weird ways

Yeah, saw that

Agree on all that. I'd add that size notwithstanding, Young is a damn near ideal fit for a WCO style attack.

I'd say it is. That said, we do have to factor in the coaching changes.

We're not devoid of talent at all. We're in year one of a rebuild where we've shifted from drafting for a college type 3-3-5 where the DC wanted small players up front to an NFL prototype 3-4 that needs massive guys up front. On offense, we're moving to a Reid style WCO (with some Sean McVay influences via our OC) from.an offense that was basically a mishmash spearheaded by a nimrod with no clear plan other than to throw players together and see what worked. Hell, we got lucky on the defensive side at least in that our arguably best player is better tuned to what we're doing now than the role he was shoehorned into before. That may be, but it's not the GM's fault.

Basic Walsh style WCO as opposed to Coryell style longball passing....

That's a consequence of the coaching change, though.

To me it's just overblown. I'd put it this way. Is a guy who runs a 4.4 really all that different in game speed to a guy who runs a 4.6? Every year we ooh and ahh about the fastest guys at the combine but how many of those guys actually wind up having memorable pro careers? I know it's "a game of inches" and all but it isn't always the guys who put up the stats that become the best players.

Used to be if you were a dumbsh-t, maybe a dozen people at most knew about it. These days you can let the entire world know you're stupid

Latest word is they're gonna keep him on the right...at least until Corbett gets back

Given the high variance in level of competition at the college level, it's really hard for me to trust college stats much at all.

We don't really know yet how our current corps is going to finish or how the college crop will end up looking. Definitely too early...

Couches are more flammable (at least on Saturdays)

After one game? Hell, it's still too early to truly judge last year's class still yet. And that's not even factoring in the that the coaching changes mean we're looking for players to fit different systems.

That'll change in about four weeks.

Staley looked like a boy wonder for about a season but the carriage turned back into a pumpkin real quick.

Working on it 🫥

I get it, but I'm not a big fan of stats as an evaluating tool. Stats give you guys like Tim Couch, Timmy Chang and such. If you don't look at the context, you get fooled. That's why I've always preferred the eye test to stat measures. It's the old Mark Twain line about liars, damn liars and statisticians.