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Defense showing up today. Penix may suck but the way they're containing Bijan is so impressive given last year

Been saying all along consistency is the problem.

Been saying all along consistency is the problem.

Offense has been bad this half so far. Good thing the D showed up today.

Bryce can finish them this drive

Great play call and setup. It was a little low but TMac has to catch that...

Third and long and don't even bother trying to pass it, yuck.

I know, making the right reads but just not placing the ball right yet. Still sooooo much better than early game last couple weeks, so if he settles down, you never know.

Missed the first series but Canales seems to be calling a good game.

Man fug TMac is him

Chuba running hard

T-Mac moves so smoothly

The Huddle is full of idiots. Me included. Doesn't change that Bryce's stats aren't indicative of success just like some of his better games last year didn't look it from stats

I mean we were basically bottom of the league with Burns... He wasn't worth what he wanted and he's showing it.

Pay me millions to be bad at my job.

This is what happens when you rank QBs by passing stats outside of context of a game, lol

One thing I'll say is that stuff like the Mingo trade and Bryce benching last year bodes well for this. I think we need to balance patience with the player with needed growth/development for these guys. So far I think we've been ok the last couple years with that.

I firmly believe Baker was broken on arrival. It's possible he ends up fixed if we hold onto him for another year or so, but I'm not so sure. I don't think he was washed up, just damaged. The Cleveland ordeal would get in anyone's head. Ridiculous what they did.

Most of us are advocating for him to at least push the ball down field as much as he did last year, which he isn't really. I'm not super interested in all his incompletions beyond 15 because we all see the wounded ducks. Of the overwhelming majority of young starters he has more attempts and far fewer completions deep. The only comparison in raw numbers is Bo Nix but of his 3 completions beyond 15, 2 are 35+ yards, so he is threatening deep. I don't need that. I just need him to be doing something more than 5-10 yard passes in front of the sticks. If he doesn't, our running game will continue to suffer, too.

At this point this is all I want from this team. I'm done hoping for wins. I just want to see a competitive team for 4 quarters. Come out of the gate hard and don't give up no matter the score.

Tbf Darnolds last few games here were on par for "good Darnold." Some good decisions and some bad. He had extended success with the Vikings but he still had plenty of poor decisions. Still better than anything we have here. I've always been a Darnold fan and I hope that he finds continued success as a veteran.

I think a lot of this stems from how well some of our FA acquisitions / trades played after leaving us. But there's a lot of important caveats there, and I think in Mayfield's case he needed to hit rock bottom (yes, we are rock bottom) to bounce back. He seems much less arrogant in TB. Darnold was, for Darnold, playing well here when we moved on from him too. I think you are right. I also think we can't wait another 3 years to see if the offense turns around. XL needs to start his turn around this year. And Bryce needs to at least return to how he played the last half of his 2nd year. Or, imo, we move on from both.

I don't know if Canales is any good as a head coach yet, but he has done well with our non-XL receivers. I personally think he is handicapped by a key personnel and that is partly out of his hands for the next couple weeks. He's also very young, so will absolutely have head scratchers and growing pains. But outside of Wilks he's probably already out best HC since Rivera, which isn't saying much, and imo his ceiling is unknown vs Wilks' which unfortunately seems well known.

It isn't. This was Week 18 last year: And this was Week 16: Even when having success he wasn't pushing the ball super deep down field, but at least he was going beyond 15 yards far more often. Across those 60 attempts he had 9 completions past or at 15 and 6 at 20 or beyond... Plus a whole bunch of drops. This year he just isn't pushing the ball down the field and it's making it easy for teams to play the run, too. Due to his arm I think he needs to get timing down past 10 yards and maybe the big turnover in our receivers is part of why he isn't pushing the ball down field. Or maybe he can't see. Whatever the reason it needs to change.

Yup. 1 completion beyond 20 yards and only 3 past 15 yards. That's in 77 attempts. I'm not one that thinks Bryce needs to hit 40 yard passes but with how defenses play us he needs to push the ball a bit further down field.