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a portion of that puzzle is on the QB and playcaller. Not just the WR. I think that part is ignored. Bryce just isn't that type QB and he Dave just don't go that route. Dave tries to do what Bryce can do. XL can threaten it with the play calls and throws. It probably would be as consistent as the Ginn days if we did it a lot. As in not very consistent. I mean, that's what we drafted in XL. But that's not Bryce. So it's conflicting. When I lobbied for XL....I always was upfront I didn't think he worked with Bryce.

to an extent, yeah sort of a Ginn variant. Every O Canales has ever been around has had those throws built in and relied on them to make the whole puzzle work. as I said, I wanted XL because we had Dave.....and I thought Bryce would be done this year. So I wanted a WR for Dave. If you told Bryce was going be the dude going into year 3 (which I didn't think was true)....I wouldn't of lobbied for XL but for a Ladd type. and I think I largely was right. Injury derailed the "plan". Dave and Tepper were done w/ Bryce 2 weeks in. The injury rewrote things for them. Now we are sort of in no plan territory. Where nothing really fits as far as plan/vision.

I mean, I didn't miss those. But those still aren't the type routes/plays/ throws I was referencing. AT basically sneaks by folks sometimes as a product of his volume and film. That's not the vintage Seattle/Bucs vertical bomb.

He isn't supposed to be. He is a raw rookie. I lobbied hard for XL. But at that same time, I conceded then Bryce Young doesn't really throw the type balls and routes that he is going to fit. I lobbied for XL because I largely thought Bryce would also be gone. XL basically needs the vintage Wilson balls or the ones Evans gets. Bryce doesn't throw those vertical balls where the WR just has to run up under it. Bryce likes the drags, slants and attacking toward the sideline. I mean, they had one dialed up Sunday. XL had them beat vertically. Bryce just couldn't put the ball up for him. It was an underthrow and a nothing play. That's basically why we drafted him for THAT. And you can count those attempts on one hand and still have fingers. I wouldn't of lobbied for XL if I didn't believe BY would have soon be gone. I would have just lobbied to replace AT with Ladd. Slowly this year. All together next year.

Ladd would not be Ladd lined up on the outside all game. He is effective because he is played to his strength. Ladd and AT would be competing for the same rep. XL had the potential to give us the biggest ceiling..... because you can let AT be AT and leave him alone.

I mean, I conceded earlier this year he is the dude next year. I'll root for him to keep improving. But some of the hot takes on him just go too far not to come out against them. I'm not lobbying for a new QB. I want a new D. Well, I might be open to replacing Dalton with a slightly younger version.

largely this. I mean, AT is sort of eating up a lot of the type balls and area TEs eat at. Sort of like having a Debo Samuel move into a backfield and start catching a lot of balls and wondering why the RBs are light. AT is sort of the Kelce variant in our O in reality. He just happens to be a WR.

yeah, he got nothing to do with Bryce Young at this point. Allen morphed into Allen year 2. That was the jump. Maybe there was a convo last year of them both just not looking NFL caliber in year 1.

I responded to someone bringing him up. I dismissed it. I don't have vitriol. This is just my least favorite part of any season. Generally it is early. Time is just off. It's the Robbie Anderson is why better than DJ Moore part of the season. Where we take something and just run off the freaking cliff with it. Folks essentially are forced into "knocking" Bryce Young because people just getting silly with it IMO. Bryce has made improvement most of didn't see coming. Bryce still isn't a very good QB.

No. But what does Josh Allen have to do with Bryce Young at this point?? It just randomly throwing a name into the conversation. Josh Allen made the big leap in year 2 and was turning into the one man show playmaker that season. He had a 72 year old Frank Gore at RB, John Brown and Cole Beasley as his top 2 WRs. No one believed in him either going into that year. He wasn't setup for success. Ignoring defenses.....the two got nothing in common at that point in their careers. Allen belongs in a Cam Newton convo, not a Bryce Young convo.

it's all relative, not us in a vacuum. Look at New England. You want to trade AT for Demario Douglas. They ain't living better over there.

https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2024/01/29/rams-panthers-ejiro-evero-contract-defensive-coordinator/ this article references his deal of having 1 year left when the talk was about him being blocked from leaving last year.

Josh Allen was headed to the playoffs at this point in his career

Averaging 59% completion, 180 yards Claiming that’s top 5 anything the last 2 weeks just ain’t going sell outside of a segment of the huddle

I still think the XL stuff is getting silly. Some guy broke down this week for example. XL basically had 1 ball where he timed his jump wrong trying to go over the top of someone and should have had that one…..but thats it on Sunday. That’s the only actual “bad” play by XL. The others were a pretty obvious PI that the announcers oddly just talked through and ignored, a Bryce over throw and a Bryce under throw. Leggtte caught the other 5. Not a bad game at all from the rookie in reality.

Wait, Evero won’t be fired. His contract is up. So he just walks I guess

Bryce Young has not been balling the last 3 weeks. He was horrible vs Dallas. Hubbard balled vs the Cardinals. Bryce ok this week in a bad offensive outing for the team. Bryce has shown some improvement on aspects of his game there we all should be glad to see. Now we are just blowing smoke because of it. Bryce balling right now is the equivalent of Sam should be in the MVP race or Robbie Anderson is better than DJ Moore type huddle inventions.

I admittedly wasn’t glued to the game. I know XL catching everything he deserves and then some. but I know Bryce throws a lot of bad balls that get almost no talk these days… I remember XL had his guy beat deep and Bryce drastically under threw him as well. Basically the textbook Canales ball for his O.

Eagles OL/Jalen threat gives everyone a boost. Good and bad. Barkley now a 2k back. Swift back to just okay.

Miles definitely ranking on the all time horrific FA signings wall of shame.

Jeremy Chinn having a pretty strong season on Washington. They seem to love him. Evero had no use for him. Was always head scratcher there

Evans was out for several weeks with a hammy. During that stretch Baker averaged about 70%, 225, and 2 TDs per game. I mean does Tampa have better talent on offense than Carolina then?

The QB and Canales are also part of the equation of how that story unfolds though. Canales and Bryce often just are outplayed by the opposing sidelines in game after that opening series over and over this year.

Well, Carolina had 10 drives. So they put up points on 20% of their opportunities to do so. Tampa should have been at 88% but showed us mercy at the end by not scoring. and some consider this part of the promising Bryce offensive era which is a bit baffling to me.

Well, Carolina going 3 straight drives accumulating a total of -6 combined yards…..has a lot to with Tampa dominating possession in a half too.