Khyber53

Man, I hope things smooth our for yourself and the Lady. Make the most of the time and enjoy it. I'm about the same age and my health isn't anywhere near where it should be, so I understand. And yeah, I'm just hanging on here by my fingernails with coming back to The Huddle. The last few years have changed things a lot for the team and it has caused some souring here. Or maybe it's just me. I don't have the optimism I used to when it comes to the team. It's my team but every week has been like watching someone kick your favorite dog. Then we all come on here and relive it and fight about it. It's not healthy. I'm going to truly miss your posts, man. I've learned a lot about football reading what you've written. You've been the Dr. Z of the Huddle for years. Well done man and well missed you'll be.

We had the answer, in our building, coaching the team. He's now wearing a headset in San Francisco and having a heck of a good time. Just saying.

Never hire a coach right after he's been let go. Let them have a year off to think about what happened and how they can fix it for their next bosses. But, here we are. I hope he can fix this airplane while we're still in the air. If he can't, there's going to be a terrible landing for us all.

There are no teams that haven't got major injuries. And most of them aren't 0-5.

I tried saying it back then. Doesn't matter. That water went under the bridge a long time ago and it isn't coming back. Wilks, CMC and Sam Darnold will all have a Super Bowl ring before we have a playoff berth. Mark my words. Might be this February.

Burns' PR has been better than his performance. Since he got here. For all the money and attention since he got here, you'd think we considered him Julius Pepper's reborn. He's not even close. He has a run around the right tackle move. And he's got... well... ummm... But the Spiderman celebration really does rock. He doesn't have a good bull rush, he can't break double teams, he gets knocked back if the tackle gets the first hit on him squarely, he is a liability in rush defense and only helps if he can pursue a guy from behind and jump on the pile. He'd be the DE/OLB2 on pretty much any other team. Great guy, great personality, great guy for the community. He outshines our other DEs/OLBs. But that's mainly because we field more scrubs than a nursing supply store.

Except that Fitterer has yet to win a single trade. He's the sucker, the mark, the rube at the poker table. We've seen CMC continue being great since he left. We finally got to see DJ Moore take the top off of a game for the Bears. And what did we get for them? Two handfuls of "magic" beans.

This team plays like they were already beat before the opening kick off. I don't know what our game plan is, but I do know that in no way does it contain any content that attempts to dictate the game to the opponent. You can't win at football unless you impose your will on the other team.

Sometimes you have to just take your lumps and ride it out.

Coaching needs to take the training wheels off so that he can learn. With Bryce, the reality is will he learn fast enough to be able to compete while outrunning his injury potential. Can't out run anyone with training wheels on.

Oh hell no!

Frank opens up the playbook completely and we just sit back and go OOOOO and AHHHHH. It could happen, right?

I hate that we've come to this, but I agree with you. I've never seen such uninspired play calling or lack of aggression from one of our teams. And I've watched every season since we started. It's bad enough that I'm beginning to wonder if Ron Rivera will be available at the end of this season.

He gets a lot of credit for guys he may have not had any direct hand in choosing in Seattle. Just saying.

Here's my latest one. Hey, if you're watching this, let me know what you think of the narration speed. Too slow, just right?

You forgot trading away CMC for a handful of magic beans.

Can't argue with the assessment. Most rookie QBs aren't going to perform well right out of the gates and Bryce seems to be one of those. But the real question is where will he be after three years? That's when we have to look at long term contracts and is he a franchise cornerstone. And no one here has the crystal ball that can answer that at this point. Maybe he will reach his potential and develop into a modern Drew Brees. Maybe he will go the Brady Quinn route and never develop. Maybe he lands in Doug Flutie land somewhere between those two. Or maybe he has the fate of RGIII and falls to injury. We don't know and we won't know for a while. And I think that he's suffering the slings and arrows right now because the team is 0-4 and it's not a very well built team and its one that doesn't play with much energy or fire. And personality-wise, Bryce isn't a fire and lightning kind of leader, nor is his coach. It's a complex situation and all we're looking for is a win here and there, some signs of progress. Sure wish we were getting some of that.

It has been solid in comparison to our offense. It holds up well through the first half, but gets completely gassed in the second half.

Just to make conversation, why are you comfortable with him there? Our defense isn't exactly the '85 Bears... Maybe the '85 Lions.

We have no offensive line. We have a rookie QB who is in line to be squished and injured in the next few games at this rate. We have only one receiver who can get open and he's 84 years old. We have four tight ends on the roster and we have no idea of how to use them. We have lost approximately half of our defensive starters to serious injury already and we just completed week four. Our best defensive player left is probably just sandbagging until the trade deadline, then will get "injured." The most reliable weapon on the team is Eddie Piniero and at the rate we're going, he will have to try a 72 yarder before week 9. Our lead running back has shown an incredible knack for finding the biggest knot of players at the line on every play and running smack into it, while the better and young Chuba Hubbard is passing out Gatorade on the sidelines. And our Head Coach has decided he will call the offensive plays and doesn't even keep up with which players on on the sideline under the medical evaluation tent. Detroit has the opposite of everything I've just stated. We are going to be killed out there.

We have four tight ends on the roster and they decide to send in Ian Thomas for a touchdown pass attempt? The guy can't catch. Can't get open. Can kinda, sorta, maybe block. And they sent him in. That's coaching's fault folks.

Always a great listen and show!

All I know is that there's been a massive turd midfield for the past half decade. It doesn't matter who laid it there, it needs to be cleaned up.

There is a very good chance that: Sam Darnold, Steve Wilks and CMC will get a Super Bowl ring before we have a winning season. AND Baker Mayfield may have a playoff win before we have a winning season. SMH