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pending he stays healthy, TMJ will have logged 3 straight seasons on a team that isn't deep at WR. I don't consider it a trolling take to say that if he hasn't shown something at the conclusion of year 3......that it's time to look elsewhere. Even if you don't actually cut him, the plan will need to be looking for an answer elsewhere.

QB school roasted Theilen again on this play. This time it wasn’t for being slow. Bryce eyed him down. He got wide open. Then threw a fit when Bryce went away from him and to TMJ. .

Without knowing the actual playcall….it’s hard for me to get that mad. Attacking deep just wasn’t part of the gameplan. I was shocked at that throw. Didn’t expect it. I don’t think TMJ thought the ball was coming his way. And WRs all over the league run bullshit routes at half speed when the play isn’t really coming their way. But I do think the TMJ experiment should end after this year if he doesn’t show something worthwhile. Got to show something in 3 years

Brown was arguably the best player on D last year. Burns just plays a sexier position. Same with Star vs KK. Star was always better here. He just had a dirtier role.

I think you got to have a player 3ish years. Some can come out hot like Colbert and some come out slow and turn out nice.

True big picture, but the Falcons D wasn’t playing in that manner Sunday. Because they didn’t view Carolina capable or willing to do the home run balls.

I caught all Frank said. Again, he pretty much said the Falcons out game planned his O. And it wasn’t complex. He attempted to counter it in the 2nd half and couldn’t. I mean, I’m not a fan of Frank big picture. Better than Rhule. But he just saying standard coach bologna/spin. Old school HC that doesn’t need to be calling plays…..and talked about how he isn’t letting Bryce do the calls that Bryce certainly can do because he is old school. Bryce can do it. Everyone knows it took Jay Z 7 years. And Frank wants to be in control of the O. Which is the Frank problem IMO. Frank shouldn’t be calling the plays. Said it when he was hired. Said it when preseason backed it. Still believe it.

After reflection… 1. Eric Shelton. and it’s probably not close if you look at pick location and production. 2nd round pick. 1 NFL season. 23 total yards.

well, I finally listened to the full presser. Sounded like a long winded version of saying the Falcons out game planned them. They tried to make an adjustment at the half and couldn't make the plays to counter it in the end. But totally would in the future.

yeah, Clausen did 2 great things. 1. Got us Cam and was a surprisingly class guy in the way he handled his mess/situation. 2. His unintentional Matt Rhule cameo vid. 10/10.

All comes down to if injuries and off the field issues exclude people or not. You can do it two ways. Was the franchise able to identify talent or not? Or did the pick itself work or not. Horn, Otah, Timmah could be or not be on a bust list. We identified talent. The picks did not work out in the end (Horn still pending). Collins gets in a little bit of a gray area too with his booze. He finished with like a 17 year career, Pro Bowls with 2 different teams, comeback player of the year twice.

Biakubutuka and Collins are in play. Timmah was a #8 and Collins a #5.

Heck, we should of kept Gilmore.

I mean, this frankly sounds like something Matt Rhule spews out. Bijan Robinson also broke the rules of running on that TD. He wasn't supposed to juke people out. If he would have just run freaking straight the guys would have made the play. The Falcons D was playing to jump the routes over the middle because they believed that is what Frank/Bryce would be doing. That's football. And it's frankly predictable. Most knew and projected going in Frank/Bryce would keep it short and in front of the safeties. That's not breaking the rules. That's just good defense.

that's largely true for Bama and UGA too. Those 3 schools have consistently fielded the best rosters in college football. Especially talking about pre NIL. This NIL likely will start to skew that from being so true going forward.

problem with Laviska in the backfield, is it surely has to limit your audible and protections that potentially could be available on a given play. I felt strongly Bryce needed a really good 3rd down type RB going into this season. Not a super stud. Just someone that can do it all at a reliable level in those pass looks. And that's just not about catching the ball. Sanders and Hubbard are fine rushers. Laviska is a fine gadget guy. If you are living in the shotgun in pass scenarios w/ a rookie QB.....you need one more RB IMO that isn't on the roster presently. And that is Cohen. If he can still play. Which is a question.

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That's the problem with not having enough talent. You got Laviska out there and you have to ask him to do things he can't do. Because every play can't be a schemed up play for him when he is on the field or then they don't work.

I mean, I’m a Cam dude. And maybe it’s the old man in me. As I didn’t care in the short term and it really isn’t much of an issue….but drop that stupid font you type in Cam. Embrace the old head you now are. I’m tired of working my eyes on it lol.

It’s also hard though to point at a QB and see him flounder somewhere and argue the same things occurs if he went to the 31 other spots. Situations, cast, coaching and landing spots makes or breaks careers. I don’t think Cam Newton would have been rookie of the year with the 31 other teams. We had 2 pro bowlers in the backfield, multiple pro bowl linemen, 2 stud TEs, and a HOF WR….AND were willing to adopt the college read option and normalize it for Cam. All that contributed to his early success. I think same guy could of been really bad on a weak team that wanted him to be traditional.

I definitely think Hurts is a different tier QB But it’s hard to ignore the difference the likely best OL in the league and likely one of the the worst if not THE worst has on the QB play. Not to mention development. Because Hurts has made huge growth and development behind that OL.

It never started. Hubbard and Shenault primarily occupied the job Sunday. And Shenault is a pure gadget guy so it probably limits the audibles/protections you might need to get into with him in the backfield.

We could use a legit receiving RB. Because that’s what is going to be called for a lot this season. Which is something they should have addressed earlier…..instead of after the season started. Because that simply was a hole on the roster. Just because Chubba and Sanders logged receptions or a play worked doesn’t make them good receiving RBs to date and that’s Cohen’s speciality. But it’s a bit of desperate play by Carolina given his recent history.

We don’t have a good team around Young on offense. A rookie Young isn’t suppose to make this current cast look good. Tom Brady wasn’t always prime Brady. There was an evolution throughout his career in regards to what he could do and how that team relied upon him.

Also, worth noting if you want to scrutinize his completion %…..Young had 8 throwaways. Only 1 QB has had more in a game since 2006. Bryce Young is a point guard distributor. If you got a problem with Young…..you really don’t. You got a problem with the folks around him.