Khyber53

A few million bucks at retirement age will probably wipe away a fair number of tears. Not all of them, but many just the same.

And the next one. Back to Florida, this time for the case of an ice cream man turned vigilante. Hope you enjoy it!

Tepper just actually chose even more poorly. Even more poorly than Gettleman. Whew, we've had some bad GMs.

While Hurney was no savant, he was a better GM and built better teams than Fit has. And Hurney could make trades that benefited us. Fitterer is the kind of guy that has salesmen falling all over themselves to get to him first at the car lot. He's a total rube, a mark, a sucker. And believe me, there are soooo many better options out there than either of those guys. How could we not have stumbled across one by accident even???

Remember when people laughed at the idea that Hurney was a better GM than Fitt? Not nearly as funny anymore. Hasn't been funny for years.

Personally, I think Alabama produces quarterbacks that can produce for Alabama and compete in the SEC, but they may well be coach killers in the NFL. Reich and Belichick have already fallen victim to it. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened. I'm looking at you USC...

Oh, I agree that it is time to let Dalton start for the team. There's an awful lot that can be learned on the bench for a rookie QB. Part of that is the idea of earning their position and fighting to get it back. Also, what Dalton does, more than anything, is allows us to better evaluate the rest of the team, something we desperately need to do. Maybe Bryce hasn't been very good in calling protections (he's not) and maybe he doesn't understand how to work and move within those protections. Maybe our receiving corps isn't really a receiving corpse. Still, we can't look at Bryce right now and know what we will get. Love and Rodgers both looked pretty unremarkable in their first season as the Packers smartly kept them on the bench. Of course, Bryce is looking historically bad out there, so sometimes it is the quacking duck thing.

There is no way to make an evaluation of the long-term capabilities of Bryce at this point, for better or worse. There are sooo many problems with this team from his performance to offensive line to sloth-like receivers to the late introduction of a decent running game to some of the worst coaching ever to the massively bad trade for the #1 pick to the meddling/micro-managing ownership to bad field conditions... et al. Right now, trying to evaluate Bryce's potential would be like trying to find out if one particular turd stinks less than the others in the pile of horseshit. There is just no clinical way to make a judgement other than he has sucked so far this year. Will he get better? I have no idea. I know that Tua took time to blossom in Miami. On the other side of the Alabama QB carousel, Mac Jones even regressed over time in New England. So we can't even use that as benchmark for how Bryce will turn out. Right now, honestly, I'd just like to see some kind of emotion from Bryce that this stuff matters to him, that he can put some fire under himself and his teammates to will things to a win. We haven't seen even a shred of that.

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?

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.