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There was a time where 2024 looked promising, too. The brief period where XL looked like he could be salvaged, Brooks was back from injury and looking decent, JT was vaulting defenders...

Actually the first post that seems to have been negative was about the Texans dropping to 0-4. For once none of us negative nancies about Bryce initially derailed the thread. Then things went into the predictable comparison of only the last half season of games for both QBs...

Someone randomly brought up how Bryce was better than CJ lol

Absolutely this. And often the "great" #2 is only mediocre elsewhere. It's worth noting a good #1 also elevates those players. And imo TMac drawing coverage is going to have that effect.

I think this is true. He is still showing flashes, but his consistency is shot imo. I hope they get him OL help.

Youth feels like the future for us on D for sure. Well, and on offense. But at least we have David Moore making an entire side of the field unusable on offense.

Pretty much every fan of Stroud and the Panthers acknowledges his trajectory has been down for a bit. Despite this, we have to massively subset his career and ignore HIS accomplishments for the comparison to be even roughly equal between he and Bryce. That's how much better his career has been to date. We don't yet know for sure how his career will end but for any of you digging him I'd ask this: Would you rather have his accomplishments to date or Bryce's?

It's been said before but Thielens stats in Minnesota are IMO more about Minnesota than him. He's on a "new" team, missed the preseason, and is competing with at least 2 if not 4 receiving options that are as good or (massively in Jefferson's case) better than him. He might still be our number 1 in yards or something because he and Bryce had an insane connection but he'd probably be 3rd here too by end of season based on what we're seeing so far.

The idea fans can't complain without the direct ability / ideas to solve things is wild.

What a 4th quarter... Arizona has to keep their games interesting at the end, hahaah

Insane, Smith Njuba with the huge reception... Just need a few more yards...

Crazy turn of events. Darnold will get a chance to avoid overtime...

Darnold may never be better than a mid tier starter, but man does that feel like a huge upgrade at times.

What a throw by Darnold, goddamn. 35 yards down field dropped right into his arms

Yeah, he's a head scratcher. He has a ton of talent he just forces too much.

Harrison seems to have lost some confidence. He still at least shows flashes, and he's been far more productive than XL. But maybe a bigger disappointment in some ways given people expected so much more from Harrison

That was a damn nice catch by Harrison

Their defense is decent. But I think they're getting gassed by a terrible offense. I'm enjoying seeing Darnold playing pretty well.

Awesome write ups, thanks! Excited to see the defense improving

If the rumors were true about him helping Bryce in the huddle, I wonder if that could be responsible in part for how the passing offense has looked at the start of the season.

Bryce has only thrown like 7 balls 20 yards or more and has 1 completion. This is out of 114 attempts He is among the lowest in the NFL in intended air yards per completion, almost 2 yards lower than last year. He has had 5 drops (2 to TMac, 1 to XL, 1 to Sanders, 1 to Chuba) , which puts him slightly above the league average by percent, but pretty close to it (4.5% vs 4.1% or so). He's also above the league average in "bad throws" (based on PFF). I'm not entirely sure how they're measuring EPA per pass attempt there but according to https://sumersports.com/teams/offensive/ we are 26th in EPA per pass play. Given all that, the idea that the problem is our young receivers not holding onto the ball feels a little incorrect, tho TMac needs to work on that (some of those aren't deep). Bryce has barely given them any opportunities deep.

I get the frustration with all the Bryce talk. After all, there's not much new to say about it. Know what else is frustrating? Watching a third year pro be seemingly unable to complete throws to anyone 15 yards from the like of scrimmage reliably.

The more Ransom the better.