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It's because his footwork and base is so atrocious(still). Until he cleans that up, he will never be making those throws with the anticipation and velocity necessary. I don't expect that will ever happen.

This is why I laugh at the "Well Canales has to cater his offense to noodle armed Bryce" guys. We are calling deep shots, he is not taking them even when they are available.

These same videos with these same issues have been getting released since his rookie year and we are seeing minimal improvements, at best. IMO, this is not something that is fixable. If we are through two "QB Guru" head coaches and he is still struggling with basic throw mechanics so often, this is not something that is fixable. It's been three full offseasons and three full seasons. This is inexcusable for this to be so incredibly common in each game. This place is squarely on Bryce. It is very apparent that he has zero inclination to improve himself at all. There is no way on earth I believe that of all the QB people around him in his NFL career that they are just shutting the fug up and ignoring all of this.

The thing that should worry people is that in very different offenses(2023 and 2024/2025), Bryce has performed eerily similar.

Welcome to the world of very predictable Dave Canales offenses.

Moore is one of our best special teams players.

I can't currently but I will. NFL NGS is glitching hard on pre-2022 data at the moment. I don't think there is an NFL NGS equivalent for college that I am aware of.

fug it. I got a little time to kill, I will do a breakdown of Teddy's 2020 season here.

NFL NGS does put those in zones. I can tally the percentages of Left Middle Right and see if we do target those areas more. I am not sure if that would give a lot of info without having access to league averages, though.

I thought about doing a breakdown of Teddy to see how it compares, especially since he was SKEWERED while he was here.

I don't think that is completely the playcalling. Bryce is choosing to dump it short more often than not. If you think about that, anecdotally that is accurate. How many times do we see him not hitting an intermediate or deeper option that is available and instead choosing to throw short?

Well....I mean....100% of those stats are in the OP.

Interesting Tidbits - 2025 marked a career low in 20+ yard attempts downfield, at 2.13/GM. - In his career, a whopping 60%(18 total) of Bryce's INT's are in the intermediate(10-20 yard) range, making that overwhelmingly the worst performing area of his career. - A massive 67.57% of Bryce's season attempts were 10 yards or less. -

I have been on record many times saying both Bryce and Canales suck. I think they would suck independent of each other, as well. I also think the stats don't really show much evolution of Bryce, which is generally true with the "eye test" as well. Interestingly, the one good stretch most give him credit for(2024 Bryce post benching) was when he was the most aggressive throwing down the field and had good results. IMO, that goes back to his confidence. He is never able to maintain it at all. I know early on the commentator's ooh and aahed over his composure, etc. Well, I don't think that was ever really true. I think he constantly struggles with confidence.

Which is also a very possible result next year. Don't forget that our division was pretty awful last season, as well.

It does appear this was the least aggressive Bryce ever with greater than 10 yard attempts. 2023: 33.05% 2024: 40.46% 2025: 32.43%

Completed this spreadsheet I had made a few weeks ago to compare various Bryce throwing zone performances. Analyze away. 2023 2024 2025

Yeah, he was actually a pretty bad GM. His draft picks were rough.

The professed stans have rarely ever been to the stadium if I had to guess.

Plus if you look at recent contracts we have generally been having to overpay because we are a bottom tier destination.

That's fine but being a top 10 paid LT should mean you get at MINIMUM top 12 LT pass blocking results. He has improved dramatically in that area, but he needs to improve more. I agree on the scheme being trash. I have maintained all season Canales is a big chunk of the problems we have.

Geno Smith has an $8 mil guarantee due March 15th and the cap hit is not high for getting rid of him($18.5 mil total), so don't be surprised if they attempt to move him or cut him. I think the next HC will have a say in that. TBH, I would very much like to get my hands on Smith to shore up the QB situation for at least a couple of years. Price dependent, of course.

They are retaining the GM per reports.

Watching him play, I have always suspected that he might not be as athletic as his production indicates. For a player like him, I do think he will have to test out well athletically for him to be a top 50 draft pick. I like him but I want to see the results to see if my eyes are deceiving me.

Agreed. He was the architect of that mess.