Khyber53

In all honesty, those receivers aren't giving him much help. Mingo stinks as bad as Bryce right now. Maybe they will both get better but wow, they really stink up the joint at the moment. And Chark... that was a shart of a pick up by the team, too.

All I know is that on Monday night, two rookie QBs beat tougher teams with stellar performances. One was an undrafted rookie. The other was a guy we had been assured was a mook, a chump and a future embarrassment to his future team. Maybe Bryce will eventually pan out and this is all because of bad coaching, he will hit the Tua boost by the third year. But right now I'm just seeing a guy with a popgun of an arm, no touch on the ball, an inability to read a defense or even see the field. And yeah, he has no receivers and the line in front of him sucks. But maybe, just maybe he sucks, too.

Oh, do fug off.

He's not. Haven't you noticed?

Haven't we been dicked over enough by Chicago already?

C'mon, y'all would kill to hear the Sean McDermott was coming here to coach next season. The article is probably bull and goes back to something that happened years and years ago.

It's depressing but there are some players that need to be finding their own reasons to give 100% today. We've developed a losing culture here and sadly at the end of the season we've got to sweep those guys out who have just been here collecting paychecks and not living up to their potential. And those are on the field and on the sidelines and in the board rooms and in the scouting department. This is a game where someone has to realize that the next coach, the next GM will be watching this. They'll be seeing where the rot is and where it needs to be cut away. And honestly, to call out one player, Spider-man Burns needs to show out. Right now he's going to be regretting not signing that contract because what he has put on tape this year has greatly damaged his earning potential. Man, it sucks to be in this position. In our advantage, though, is that the Saints suck, too.

I'm still watching. Can't say much more than that. I'm all out of pithy quips, enthusiasm or hope for this team. Now it's just a grim march to the end of the season that I'll slog through, rain, shine or whatever.

What I want to see is which players aren't going down with the losing culture. Those who are phoning it in get exposed and those who try should be obvious. A new management team and coaching staff needs to know who those people are. And the only way to do that is to try and win games, at least from an interim coaching standpoint. As for us fans, I just don't know. I'll watch the games because that's what I do, but I can't ask anyone else to do it.

Now if he was showing a willingness to tackle in the run game... but no one is really doing that.

Considering his performance, we will give him $35 million a year. Because we do stupid things here of lates. Brian Burns quit trying after the trade deadline passed. And it wasn't like he was trying real hard to do much before that. The best we can do with Burns is wait for a compensatory pick when he goes elsewhere unless he suddenly finds a desire to play really hard for the team.

This has been the "Hold my beer" moment for fuging up a professional football team. The whole thing reads like a Will Farrell movie script that no one wants to make or see.

Look, we're like the ninth best football team in North Carolina. That's something, right?

Indeed.

Oh, I agree. That's the way it is supposed to work. But here, the owner seems to be very, very inserted into the chain of command further down than is practical. It's just a mess. And in our case, maybe it would be better if someone at least familiar with football makes the GM decision.

This is very likely the exact situation. If a head coaching candidate is that big of a get, Tepper will jettison Fitterer and let the coach be involved in selecting someone to work with. That could be a good thing or a disastrous thing, depending on the dynamic that develops. Retaining Fitterer and his staff including the scouting departments, though, will continue to be a disastrous thing down the road.

Done!

If Fitterer is still in the GM position, it won't matter who we snag. No coach can work with an organization that can't evaluate players.

Run blocking, there's the difference right there. Get back to a run heavy game plans. Let the maulers maul, otherwise its just a set of turnstiles outside of a kindercare facility. And use Blackshear as the RB2 instead of Sanders. He's just too small to ever provide any protection for Bryce. He's actually smaller than Bryce. Sheesh.

Yeah, it wasn't a high bar to clear but he did.

There's no way at all to evaluate Bryce in what we've seen since he came to the pros. There may be a small chance to see him perform a bit during the interim. Whether the kid is good or not, we're stuck with him for the foreseeable future. Still, if Eberflaus can make that division II son of an armwrestler look halfway decent out there, a good coach can get something out of what Bryce should bring to the table. Can't make him taller, but maybe at least take his feet out of those cement overshoes that Reich was saddling him with. Just remember, neither Reich nor McCown had any history of successfully developing a QB. Reich went through them like crazy at Indianapolis (including some blue chippers on their last legs) and McCown's prior coaching credentials were at the high school level. Their years of experience as NFL QBs was given massive credence with little attention paid to the fact that both spent most of their time riding the pine. I keep looking at the hiring a lot like I look at our drafting... our GM and owner are more apt to listen to hype from agents than they are to seek out the wise counsel of good scouts and personnel men. Maybe, like we did last year, the team will luck into someone who can get something out of this collection of losers we've become. And hopefully, if it should somehow happen, we won't be stupid and let the solid candidate go.

Never.

I still think that the Reich hiring and the assembling of a monstrously large, all-star coaching staff was one of those Dream Team attempts that is just doomed to fail. There were just too many voices at the table, too many names, too many reputations, perhaps even too many factions. The team, offense and defense, just played like a collection of players instead of one team. There was no cohesiveness, no sense of shared purpose, no identity, no immediacy. All of which points to the famous "too many cooks in the kitchen" set up. I get the feeling that Reich never got to put him plan in actual place, and there's a really good chance that he never really developed a plan in the short time between his firing and his hiring. There was nothing really built there and then it came down to a committee approach with the most lackluster results imagineable. Reich, in the later news conferences, looked like a weathered, worn out Dad at the end of a five day family road trip. What had seemed like the dream vacation had become a migraine-inflected nightmare.

That's all we need, another Frikkin' Yankee coming down here to "fix" things for us. Honestly, why would Belichick come here where the cupboard is bare when he will most likely have his pick of QBs in the upcoming draft since none of the other contenders for the crapfest award will need a new QB. And honestly, as bad as his team has been for the last couple of years, they have more key players in place than we do. Bill's not going anywhere and we look as attractive to him as fully awake colonoscopy.

With the personnel we have, the defense dictates what our offense does more than our coaches do. We're just that bad.