Mr. Scot

Damn!

Currently following the wife around a store while streaming Bucs-Saints on my phone Saw the Saints go ahead touchdown...

Saw where Darnold is kicking the Falcons ass

Somewhat, and she goes all out, so...

I'm helping the Mrs with Christmas decorations. Don't think anybody wants updates on that. (including me)

Do you still have your own petard?

Even the best QB in the league doesn't win games by himself. Sorry dude, but you're rationalizing to see what you wanna see. The reality is that Bryce can play and win in the NFL on this Panthers team. And barring something crazy, he'll be doing it best season too. There is no scenario or argument we can come up with that's gonna stop that. It'll take something disastrous or just plain weird that we have no control over. Hell, even if you win the argument against me in this forum, that doesn't change objective reality.

I just think they see it differently. I don't call that denial so much as just run of the mill being wrong

How'd he do last week?

Not getting to watch as much today but I'll try and sneak some in...

Nope. It was an illustration of team thinking Could have used any established starter in the league from Daniel Jones to Josh Allen and the point would have been the same. I used Mayfield primarily because he's a familiar face / name to us.

Mind you, there's always Pete Carroll assuming his Raiders stint is one and done (general consensus points that way) but any part Carroll plays at his age would probably look more like what Capers is doing than a direct DC job. (my opinion, at least)

What KFD said... I believe Tepper is mostly staying out of football management (KFD and others disagree) and I hope it stays that way. But he did do some meddling within a recent enough window that there may still be some effects. Evero is part of that discussion.

Not sure how I'll recover from such a strong rebuttal, but I'll try

He had the best statistical performance of his career just a few weeks ago and beat an expected Super Bowl team in his last game. The team isn't gonna look at that and go "okay, but remember when he sucked as a rookie?" The only chance I see of any changes happening is if the last four games are unmitigated, biblical level disasters. If Bryce has even decent performances though, and more importantly, we win two to three of those games, well...

This is what everyone doesn'tseem to understand... ...or doesn't want to accept

It's not a comparison to Mayfield. It's an illustration of how NFL teams work and think. And sorry, but what you're hoping to see here is wishful thinking.

Sorry but I think that's rationalizing. We wanna say "it must be Tepper" because we don't want to believe that Canales / Morgan / Tilis and company see Bryce differently than we do. Truth though is that It isn't really farfetched to believe they do.

Don't know much about Wirfs injury or whether it could still be in effect when we gave them.

Not sure it matters either way (see above). I think he leaves next season. It's just a question of how.

Valid, though it's a little different in a 3-4 scheme when you're not using a true MLB. Morgan himself has said he believes in building from the trenches out.

Still not a huge fan, but someone else who looked it up said he's not under contract after this year. Between that and the other stuff, it's not hard to imagine him coaching elsewhere next season.

Haven't paid enough attention to him to have an opinion. I do know interior DL is one of the harder positions to evaluate because you only tend to notice them on highlights or lowlights. Hell, plenty of us had Derrick Brown pegged as a bust early on