Khyber53

This! Bet you bottom dollar it's within this or the next season. And it will be big.

Sure beats being baffled by us blowing it game after game!

Let's enjoy it for what it is. And that first post was hilarious. We somehow keep winning games in the least expected ways. This is getting to be a scrappy team that no one should want to see coming up on their schedule. This probably won't be our big year, but you'd have to be a big cynic not to think something good was building... finally.

We pulled them down to our level and just out wrassled them. Good job guys! Ugly wins are wins just the same.

We got the win, and Bryce conducted another game winning drive. Say what you will about the stats (and they are consistently bad), the kid doesn't wilt when the game is on the line. But man, we've got to get something going during the rest of the game...

I thought the only way we'd win was if it got ugly with the turnovers and if Rico was used extensively. Scary to be right. Now, let's see who is next.. Also, Bugles before every game we've won.

Winning against massively favored opponents by turning it into an ugly game is well, a sign of a team identity being formed and young men buying into what the coach is putting out there. We're a scrappy bunch, can't take that away from them and our defense played lights out. And how about our O-line, injuries and all taking Micah Parsons out of the game pretty much? Rico has been terrific and that's great. I hope we find a way to keep him for next season. And Chuba, I just get the feeling that he isn't fully recovered from that injury. He doesn't move like he did before. Bryce... I hope he gets a lot of wins because he's going to make a helluva back-up if he doesn't start getting much, much better stats. Rookie kicker? We're good.

We've got a chance. But we're going to work the run game all danged day.

Feasting on the foes again today! It's the Packers today so it's CheddarWurst and potato salad. It just screams Wisconsin for some reason. And Bugles, of course. What about y'all?

Yeah, right now there needs to be a culture shift there. I think the coach lost the lead roll in that a while back and there has been a vacuum there since the real team lead went on IR. And if you don't know what I mean, it was the guy that once ran his sports car away from the cops to the team facilities rather than get a speeding and reckless driving ticket. And somehow got away with it, with no repercussions.

This Also, on this team right now, I think you need some kind of consistency builder. Giving Chuba a second contract and then trading him away so early in it doesn't look great in a locker room for a team trying to build an identity.

Somebody was going to. Not sure if McDaniels survives the season there. And they'd be letting a good coach go.

Woof. I watched that game. The Dolphins really are that bad. So bad that for all the praise that the Ravens got last night, I've got to wonder if we just saw them successfully punching their way out of a paper bag.

Look for the best ILB who has a proven track record of running the defense on the field. High leadership and football IQ marks, good tackler, looks to correct mistakes being made in-play. Needs to be the brains more than the brawn. Luke was always the brains, TD the enforcer and Shaq the chaser. Worked like a charm. Dan Morgan should know how to build this, but seemingly can't. I think he is easily sold on players by their agents more than what they actually bring to the field. But what do I know?

Move back to 4-3 full time, start putting more mass and muscle into our DEs and push for more blitzing, too. I'm sick of a passive defense approach... "Do what you want to the girl, just leave me alone" isn't how you win in the NFL.

Been here since 2009, what a long, strange trip it's been. Here's hoping the road goes on forever and the party never ends.

Grabbing anyone from the Titans just isn't worth the investment. MLB, though, needs to be addressed either now or in the first round of the draft.

We will believe in changes when we see them.

Roll it into next season while we spend the rest of this one seeing what we've got, what could be drafted and what we'll still need. Then go grab it. We aren't far from being competitive and we're developing a level of grit we haven't seen since the best Rivera days. There's still a long way to go, but don't eat the seed corn yet. Unless Myles Garrett is on the trading block... then grab him. He'd fix a whole heap of our problems.

Honestly, I don't think Canales is on the hot seat at all right now. He inherited a bad team with little depth and a QB who came at a high price and got no coaching in his first season (coupled with some physical limitations that require different game planning). I think he and the Teppers both knew this was going to be a situation where he had to show progress in more than just the QB position to keep his chances going. And, well, we might not like it but there's progress being shown. The defense has shown some good games and some terrible games. That, especially over last year's effort, is a remarkable growth. As bad as we look at times this year on defense, we are nowhere near as bad as we were last season. Nowhere near. Brown came back and shored things up, and both free agent pickups and draft picks seem to be helping. It's not a finished product yet, but it isn't embarrassing (at least on a consistent basis as before). On offense, well, Bryce has done better. He's not putting up big numbers, but we're sitting at .500 at the mid-season point, which is a far shot better than we have been. Bryce probably isn't our answer at QB (unless he really turns it up when he comes back from injury), but our running game is stronger, our receiver corps is markedly better (to the eye if not on paper), we've got some decent tight ends for once and our O-line had been looking decent to good (at least until Buffalo opened up a machine gun on them... ouch). If Bryce just holds the line here as he's doing, we'll finish with an okay record for once. If he does poorly, it's just another rinse repeat season for us. Either way, I think we could either go QB in the draft or look for a solid free agent back there. All that being said, I think that Canales has made a stronger case for his future here than he is making for his present here. Play calling could be much stronger, more inventive and more able to exploit opportunities. He needs someone in the coaching booth who can see the whole field making those calls while he manages the team and the game. That's going to take a step of maturity on his part. And I think Ejero moves on after this season, here's hoping he gets a HC gig next season (good for him and even better for the compensation we'd get). All that said, if this team does completely collapse after all these injuries, all bets are off. If he can hold the team together with these injuries and make it to that late bye-week, then he's going to be here. If we can somehow snag a wild card spot (and we are honestly very much in the hunt) then the sky is the limit.

I know, but we've been served turds for so long, at least a change of seasoning would seem like something good at this point. Won't change the substance, but at least the experience.

Sometimes eliminating a question is a positive move, too.

Oh yeah, I agree. But they also had the same coach through those three years. What bothers me, though, is that Bryce is still our best QB as far as we can tell (I mean Hooker could be a miracle waiting to happen maybe). Tough times.

Yeah, but the futility of it all, at least it will have a different seasoning to it.

Dalton was brought in as a veteran to be the mentor to Bryce. And an emergency back-up if need be. Never meant to really take the reins. And well, I really think it's time to put Hooker in, set Andy back on the bench and in the film room. Bryce needs more time to heal. Maybe a lot more time.