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That and the fact he might be a one contract player given the age. All that being said, I still would have preferred we gambled on him than someone like Wallace. Wallace just so clearly is in the mold of a Fitterer/Rhule "I'm smarter than everyone else" selection. At this point, stop being cute. Get players who can just fuging play. I feel like this is something we have lost the ability to do as a franchise.

I don’t think we will fire Canales unless we are looking at another 1-2 win season. I think Tepper is going to have more patience with him, like he did Rhule.

I don't really think either of those guys would move the needle much although their ceilings may be higher. I would say we are still not in a position to develop someone like Maye. He needs a ton of work and this isn't a place where he could develop. For Nix, how would his situation be much different than similar lower ceiling rookies put in better situations recently? Is he better than Pickett or Mac Jones? Both of those guys were in far better situations and still failed. Outside of a true HR pick, I don't think you are gonna see many rookie QB's look good given our situation.

I am here for the New England and Denver dumpster fires. Both franchises are richly deserving of it.

Yeah, I concerned the D might take a noticeable step back and the offense might not take a big enough step forward to cover that.

I would say somewhere in the 2-5 wins range is about right. Any more than that would be a geniune shock. Winning record would be almost as shocking as the 15-1 season.

Not every player responds to that sort of coaching style. This is the biggest nothingburger of all time. Some players prefer a fired up guy that wears his emotions on his sleeve and some want a more calm coach. This has existed since the beginning of coaching and playing. Nothing new here.

Because he was a very inaccurate passer in college and the history of those guys making it is pretty clear. It's possible he could be an outlier but there is a reason you mention Allen, he is really the only one that did turn it around. I don’t bet on outliers. And that is without mentioning that he is primarily a run first decision maker while being injury prone(not good) and that he was(IIRC) the only rookie QB with a lower percentage of deep targets than Young. I was not a big AR fan before the draft and he really did nothing to make me change my mind in year one.

I am much less worried about Ikey than BY, I can tell you that.

The center situation is so insane. I cannot understand it at all.

Yeah, the only real fix for that is literally resting it. Well....it's tough to get acclimated while sitting on the bench.

I am gonna guess we aren't gonna see much of BC outside of being a backup, which is really where he will be the most valuable. My guess is they believe in that GB FA signing more. Ikey has to do the work necessary to be great. For all the people saying he should switch to LG, well he is still going to need to work there too. He needs to figure that stuff sooner rather than later or he is gonna be out of the league a lot more quickly than he realizes. Talent can't get you there as a pro football player. Only hard work can.

I predict that he won't be the only question mark on this OL. I am rather skeptical of that unit overhaul.

Not sure about that. The big reason AR is trending bust is health. That isn't going to improve at TE. He isn't only a project but he is injury prone and plays like Cam. Terrible combination.

I am curious to see who the bigger bust will be between Richardson and Young. Could be a very close race.

The owner removing himself from day to day operations is basically the only hope this franchise has. If he does not, we are sunk.

Most early mocks had us projected as top 5 and going QB. I tend to agree. I think we will be in that cycle for at least 6 more seasons.

Agreed. I really hope it collapses so that college athletics can be interesting again.

He is the hero of tipping the cost/benefit ratio around.

The king of this is actually Brock Osweiler. The cost per down of his 4 year, $72 mil deal is INSANE

I am nervous. Hope it turns out well.

I was about to say, if Ian Thomas is around none of our TE's has to prove anything.

It's pretty amazing that these large entities pine to make the most money possible but have about 20-30% of their collective payrolls being taken up by utterly useless workers.

You know, having worked for a lot of different large companies, there are a lot of people who need to be replaced with computers.

Oh the unicorns exist. They have a pile of rings.