Khyber53

It wasn't Diggs' best year, that's for sure. They said he drew a lot of attention from defensive schemes and that kept him in check. And that may well be true, but... Every team that has played the Bills for years now has been on the lookout and tried to game plan to take Diggs away from Buffalo. Every year. And in the past, he was able to break past the double teams and schemes. Something tells me either he has been nursing an injury or perhaps time and accumulated hits have caught up to him. $20 million is a lot to pay to find out...

There's no way to tell, really. Every one of these teams was a trainwreck, and behind the scenes each may be as bad as our own was. Harbaugh was the biggest get on paper, but Herbert has also supposed to have been the best QB of recent time... on paper. Overall, he's got the biggest resume going into the season. The rest... we'll have to see. And maybe Washington is getting a better prepared Dan Quinn than when he last was HC of the Falcons. And maybe not... he's going to have Falcon level players this time and that can be pretty rough. Our guy, I just hope he can break the streak here.

But I thought the Huddle line was that Cam took us to the Super Bowl with a bunch of scrubs riding on his back, no weapons, no line, no coaching.

This ^100%. It's not that he's not really, really good, it's just that he needs a running mate or he just gets washed out of the game. He's the perfect complimentary pass rusher and can beat a single lineman with speed and bend like no other. Single linemen. He's not blowing through double teams and wrecking plays every time the other team drops back to pass. He'd make the perfect Edge2 along the line and I'd be all for keeping him if we could pay him that way. Putting him at top of the league in pay, though, is disastrous for us.

I've been saying all year that chances are best that CMC, Sam Darnold and Steve Wilks would have a Super Bowl Ring before we even made it to the playoffs. Wow, that was fast, but there ya go. One more game.

Just watch...

You know this is going to get worse before it gets better, right?

Especially in light of what followed him here. Just in comparison alone he deserves some credit.

Canales and Morgan, in my opinion, ride out this season with who we have on board. They are here to drag the boat back into harbor to put it in drydock and scrape all the barnacles, paint and rust off of it. Be prepared for a 2024 season that will make the 2023 season look like it's simpler, dumber twin brother. Going into 2025, the team will have lost most of its big dollar players to age, free agency or injury. We will have a full-ish slate of picks again, perhaps a couple of compensatory picks and most likely will be at the top of that draft. We'll also have been able to write off the Young pick most likely (unless something miraculous happens) and move on. That might attract a new coaching candidate. Or, maybe, just maybe, Canales came in, sat down and said that he'd bring that boat in, oversea the tear down and stick around for the rebuild the following season. That is the realistic look at what we have on hand, what we have coming to us and how bad things are currently. History says we've probably made a major mistake, not because of the coach but because of the owner (we've been down this road enough to say it's historically proven now). So, Coach Canales... they let you sit down at the big boy's poker table, gave you one white chip and they'll cover the ante for you. Good luck, man. Those are sharks out there.

Good luck to the guy, he's started out the job as the captain of a ship that's three feet below the functional water line. He's got a helluva job ahead of him with limited resources, a potentially meddling ownership and a fanbase that has been bitten twice already. It's going to have to see what he can turn out there before I'm able to really get behind this. But hey, surprise me man. Once upon a time I was like who's John Fox? And this guy Delhomme? He's a nothing burger, why did we grab him? Sure would be nice to go on a wild ride like that all over again.

I'm still wondering why the title of the thread has the phrasing "BY A WOMAN!" What kind of sexist bullshit is this? There's no reason in the world that a woman can't be an effective NFL team owner, steady-handed executive and lead the turn around of a struggling organization. And she has certainly been that. SMH at what came across as someone trumpeting their 1947 values in an attempt to belittle our current ownership. Yeah, our team owner sucks, and the Lions have gotten a great one. It's not gender. It's competence, something that is never gender-based. This is some bullshit stuff. And it's probably part of the atmosphere that ran off pretty every long-time female contributor on this site. Some of our best, smartest, most knowledgeable and funniest posters on the site were women. And they are missed greatly. Frikkin' sausagefest.

I have no idea but I'm really hoping for this being the day when the blind squirrel finally finds an acorn.

In my 20s, in a time between the closing of the newspaper I was part owner of and the next job as an editor, I had to take a job carrying cinder blocks and mortar (mud) for a mason. I worked my ass off every danged day, got up at 5 am to be at the jobsite by 6, sweated myself silly and tore my hands, knees and back up for $7 an hour in the hot sun. I needed the job. I had bills to pay. If my desk sitting ass went out and got that job because I had to, some dude with a coaching history will take this one out of desperation or blind optimism. Someone will take this job for a helluva lot more than I took then, make now or will probably ever make in my life, for just a year of their time.

Can anyone say this is just going to be a caretaker gig at best? We're going to be back here next year at this time in the same situation. This coming season is just a season to get past the lack of a draft pick and bare cupboards here. Most likely whoever is hired as HC and front office (sorry Dan the man), they are just carrying the water until we can give a better candidate a full package to work with. Morgan and a coach to be named later are probably just Stalking Horses to cover up for the long term poo we got ourselves into. The other option is that we're looking for some miracle worker that can turn nothing into something.

Buddy, I know, I know. It hurts still. But we've got to let it go. It's only hurting us, and maybe Cotchery now.

Never let someone cut the mold off of a piece of cheese and tell you it's okay to eat now. Roots run deep in rot. I'm hoping we see something miraculous of a John Lynch nature here. I just hope he's easier on the Panthers rookies than he was as a player.

Oh yeah, that I know. Been here through it all. We've given into the hate many times. And we've hit magic twice. Man, it's about time we had some magic again.

We're eventually going to have to let this go. We need to let a lot of stuff go. Jon Kasay and one particular kick. Jake Delhomme's really bad playoff game on his birthday. Julius Peppers heading to Chicago. Steve Smith, Sr. whooping a teammate's ass. Steve Smith, Sr. whooping another teammate's ass. Maybe a third time. Steve Smith, Sr. in Baltimore telling us to take our asses back to NC and mow his danged lawn. The whole Dave Gettleman thing. We need to let Cam coming back go and remember him for the ascendent talent he was while he was. We need to let our bad feelings about Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield go... maybe it wasn't them after all. We need to let go of carrying hate for Matt Rhule and let him spiral off into the cornfields of Nebraska. We need to let the trades of CMC and DJ go, We can't hold onto these things. It just hurts ourselves, the fans. We might, however, have a right to be mad that a know it all Yankee hedge fund guru bought this club and has made a hash of it all so quickly and so decisively. (Can't just throw all the bitterness away at once I guess.)

What has been done is done. So... here's hoping he proves to be our John Lynch. Good luck to the man, he knows the mess he has walked into, maybe that gives him a leg up on fixing it.

Well said and illustrated. Sometimes I feel like that, a dinosaur just watching the proto-possums scamper about. I'm an old print journalist now working to write scripts for a YouTube channel. My audience has changed soooo much I started working in 1992 at it. Sometimes I hit, sometimes I miss. And I'm paid by a 21-year old guy from India who is remarkably even keeled and supportive. This newest generation taking the stage... they may well be onto something. I like them, I wish I fully understood them, but there's a lot of good stuff there. Maybe newer, younger coaches in Carolina can reach them and set them to soar. I sure hope so.

You may have hit on exactly the problem we had this season, and it is a generational one that stems from communication of coaching. Hadn't really thought of that before, and it explains a lot, especially if you look at the product on the field. Just as some teams seem to age out of their best years, so too do coaches. Look at New England... Bill may have simply been the coach who went from esteemed guru with the players hanging on every word to the "Okay boomer (eye roll)" level very quickly without Brady to translate for him. It's a crazy thing, but it's a real thing, too.

He seems to have forgotten that football at the pro level (and college, too nowadays) is a billions of dollars business in its own right. It can be just as, and possibly more, complicated than running a hedge fund. He's been finding that out the hard way.

This is just a tragic fail of a trade. So much went into the pick that there was almost no way it could pay off in the long run. Not only did we give up DJ Moore, but with the loss of the draft pick we got for trading away CMC, then we pretty much gave him up as well. That's the teams top two receivers and starting RB. We gave up our two best scoring weapons. And then the draft picks, too. And could have done as well, or better, with the QBs that were left to us at #9 had we just stayed. We were suckered many, many times before draft day.

Here's the winner. And draft some linemen with our few picks. We need depth and we need the possibility of grabbing a diamond in the rough to push these other prize hog mollies. And scheme appropriately. Sheesh.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, behind that line, with those receivers, poor play concepts, constant tee-ing off by defenders, and no real running game... even peak Joe Montana and Tom Brady dropped into that situation would have collapsed. I'm not sold on Bryce, and haven't been since the pick was made, but dang man, got to give the kid a fair shot at it. And woof, he got screwed about as bad as the fans did this year.