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We barely squeaked out a W at home with a walk off FG this week to win our first game of the season. We aren't a should win several in a row type team now. We have the 30th ranked run D in the NFL. Houston can't run. Indy and Chicago both have top 10 run games. NFL is about matchups. That makes those specific weak teams bad matchups for us. Finding a way to 1 of the 2 would be a good thing. Expectations shouldn't be a 3 game win streak. We aren't very good. Both those teams are licking their chops too seeing us on the schedule thinking this is where they can get wins too. I call this stretch coin flip games. Hard to think we will win all the coin flip games. That wouldn't make them coin flip games.

99% of the NFL plays for paychecks. Professional athletes in general. If you want Higgins or whoever.....you can almost get anyone if the dollar says so.

I'd guess that is Mr. Stroud

Problem with the upcoming 2 winnable games is the matchup they present. NFL is just matchups. Which makes them harder matchups for us vs others. Bears and Colts both have top 10 rush attacks. They complicates them for us and makes them less easy games for us than they initially appear. Because our run defense is garbage.

If we are honest the retooling has to start in the front office. Because essentially every “issue” was largely obvious going in while they were calling it a win now and plug a QB in O.

He proved to be a flawed committee RB in Philly. A really good team told us what he was.

So this front office made 4 free agency moves to aid/grow Bryce while also declaring it now a plug in and win now team. To date, I’d grade those moves as: Adam Thielen - A Miles Sanders - D Hayden Hurst - D DJ Chark - C Heck that’s probably generous on Sanders and Hurst given their pay and being outplayed by freaking Hubbard and Tremble.

Ok. I’m not worried about that. That’s something sensitive Bryce fans are worried about. Stroud has outplayed him on the season. Our offense still sucks. The Texans have been a better team overall on the year because of Stroud’s play vs our QBs play in this system. Can’t really have that both ways.

Will Levis out there today throwing 4 TDs. 3 to Nuk Hopkins. We got a massive front office problem. meanwhile our front office out there signing Hayden Hurst and talking about winning now

Ok. It’s still just one TD vs a meh D. we got a win, it was going to happen at some point. Probably will again. It’s the NFL. Good offense is still something we are waiting to see. We got a roster problem. Probably a coaching problem too. I don’t expect good O until we start addressing the issues.

if the kicker misses the kick at the end….what’s the narrative on the offense? Nothing actually changes about what they did on the day. I'm just saying, the offense isn’t good. It hasn’t been all year. Wasn’t good today.

He lead 1 TD drive against a meh defense. Offense is still dogwater. Nothing has really changed there on the year yet.

lol. We had a bye last week.

I know, I guess my point is comparisons only mean something before they step on the field. We have seen Mingo in the NFL. And he looks nothing like a young Boldin.

and Boldin still put up a career very similar to 89. Many would argue his edges Steve's. Boldin edges 89 in most categories on less games....and then adds the ring.

if it worked for the Patriots, why shouldn't coaches mimic it. It isn't like Harbaugh is the only one. He just is the only one caught. I personally equate it to paying players back in the day. Occasionally a team would get busted. It was widespread. I suspect tons of teams are doing variations of this. There is some clip of an old Denver player talking about Josh McD. They brought it to Denver. Then McDaniel's guy got busted. But he said before that happened, the coaches could tell them exactly what was going to go down on a given play.

I mean, that is what I was doing when someone referenced Mingo to a dude that was OROY and made the Pro Bowl his rookie season. I mean, his production when on the field was actually pretty dang similar to OBJ early in his career. He opened with a 1300+ rookie season. And that was back when you could still maul WRs a little. Got hurt his 2nd year. 3rd year he had 1400+. 4th year he had 1200+. Boldin was a monster. And Boldin will have a shot at the HOF...unlike OBJ.

but PJ Walker largely enters each season as the 3rd string QB. That's why I don't get the heat people give him. Even Dalton enters each year in the 2nd string tier.

PJ Walker in 2020 PJ Walker in 2021 PJ Walker in 2023 and the dude has a winning record to this day when called up. Walker isn't complete trash. He just isn't a starting QB in the NFL. And literally no one ever positioned him to be anything but a backup. And often the 3rd string back up. Complete trash 3rd string backup QBs.... can't maintain a winning record when called upon to step in year after year. PJ always has gotten unfair heat because of people were angry the starters we invested in frankly aren't really any better than PJ. PJ Walker was the last QB we have employed for some time that actually did the job he was employed to be well. And his job was backup QB.

32 of these jobs in the entire world. Not hard to hire a coach. I think Frank gets 2. But something still has to change to get that second one. He has to eventually win a small handful. Look more competent as a HC. And Bryce Young has to find some sort of groove down the stretch

Were they going into those seasons with a lot of win now, playoff, never draft high again talk??

We acquired the #1 overall pick in the draft. What did we trade to for it? Part of what we gave for it included choosing to give them our 2023 first round pick. We still traded it away. and that's pretty standard language. Here is ESPN describing the event. a package including wide receiver DJ Moore, two first-round picks (2023 and 2024) and two second-round picks (2023 and 2025).

the dude who made the pro bowl his rookie year? while setting the rookie reception record, winning OROY, etc. Did they call him a bad or poor man's version of Boldin? Boldin was a certified monster out the gate.

Is that old saying really true anymore? at least in terms of the really good ones. sure feels like most WRs that turn out to be good in recent history....show it pretty early. Sure feels like it is skewing more 1-2 seasons now.