Mr. Scot

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

That was the process from the beginning. No way to know what Carr could (or could not) have been but the way they coached him was criminally bad.

Well...

No argument

I'm always on board with this.

Most qualified guy on staff is Todd Wash. He was the Jags DC for five years. He impressed enough to get head coaching interviews. He's also got history with Canales from Seattle.

Not talking about pressers. Guys like Dan Graziano, Joe Person and others talk to people behind the scenes. Team officials don't automatically think the way we do. They make decisions we disagree with. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong. Either way, you can't ever assume that their evaluations and conclusions are gonna be the same as ours.

And if Matthew Stafford has a historically awful day, Tet McMillan didn't drop a pass, Rico Dowdle was fully healthy and Xavier Legette was contributing, we might have won by even more. You can use those sorts of "what if" scenarios to support any kind of point you want. I prefer not to even bother with them.

Yeah...no. See above.

Ryan Grigson was a lousy GM. That said, he had training, experience, access to information that none of us do, and the responsibility to craft a full roster, not just sit back and snipe about individual decisions. He was better equipped than even the smartest people on this or any other internet forum to run an NFL team... ...but he failed. Why? Because he wasn't competing against us. He was competing against Brett Veach, Brad Holmes, Les Snead and 28 other professional talent evaluators and roster builders. Being better than us is relatively easy given the advantages he has, but that's not his job. His job is to be better than those other guys, and he wasn't. On a personal level, I could frame that as Marty Hurney was better equipped than me. He made mistakes I might not have made, but in the real world I probably couldn't have done his job. I always try to keep that in perspective. They're human, they're gonna fail, but it doesn't necessarily make me superior to them.

I've read a lot of BTS stuff from NFL front offices, and what I've seen doesn't reflect this kind of thinking. The reason they picked up Darnold's fifth was the same reason they traded for him, because they believed he could be the guy. When they pick up Young's option it'll be for the same reason. Fans rationalize stuff like this because they can't imagine team decision makers not seeing players differently than how they see them. But they do. Hell, we spend entire offseasons complaining because teams being back guys like Ian Thomas.

I share your opinion, but there's pretty much no indication the team does.

I expect them to take the "build around him" approach.

Graziano, Fowler and Person all basically see the fifth year option as a no brainer. That doesn't exactly scream "looking for an upgrade".

Not about what I think. Can you find any sources suggesting the team wants to bring competition for Bryce? (I haven't seen any, just the opposite) That situation could change but right now, I'd be surprised.

Not if the team doesn't see it that way.

Most, if not all of them. It isn't "coddling" either. It's standard practice. When a team names a starter, he's the guy. Like I said previously, the Bucs aren't going to go into next year telling Baker Mayfield he has to win the starting role again. He keeps it by default. That's how NFL teams operate. Our feelings don't matter.

How many teams with established starters ever bring in competition? Do you see the Bucs telling Mayfield "you were the starter last year but this year you have to win the job again"? If the team believes Bryce can be the guy (and just about all indications right now are that they do) they're not gonna put money and resources into another quarterback. They'll direct those toward shoring up somewhere else. You don't believe Bryce should be the guy. I don't believe Bryce should be the guy. Hell, a solid percentage of this board doesn't believe Bryce should be the guy. But the only people whose opinions matter appear to think differently.

Reich gave Evero leeway to pick most of his defensive position coaches, but Wash didn't have any history with Evero. His connection to the 23 Panthers was via Dom Capers who'd worked with him in a senior assistant role when Wash was the jags Defensive Coordinator. By coincidence, Wash actually has a little more history with Dave Canales. He was Seattle's DL Coach for two of the years Canales was coaching receivers. A couple of the guys Evero brought in have since been fired. I'm still surprised Evero wasn't after last season, but after hearing that his contract end this year, I feel it's a lot more likely that he and the Panthers part ways next year. It's just a matter of whose decision it is (quite possibly mutual).

I've tweaked a back muscle turning over in bed. (wish I was joking)