Ricky Spanish

I actually changed the 'x' to 'twitter' in the url box before copying. That seemed to do the trick. changing it once it's been pasted into the forum makes the hamsters upset it seems. Jank

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No, Rhule was a CEO type and a complete dickhead. There was an article after we hired him and in it, it talked about how he would bitch at his coaches and threatened to fire them mid-game for poor performances. His rah rah had no substance and he tried to lord over grown men like they were college kids. No idea if Canales is the guy, but his answers in his pressers sure have more substance and reason rather than soundbites and catchphrases.

No hate for Eddy Money, but I don't know if he's making a smart decision by not being there, especially if the Thiccer Kicker is dropping 60 yard bombs.

Right? I haven't bailed the Bryce boat yet, but come week 5 or 6 he has shown zero improvement I'll be ready to take whoever the new hotness is at that point.

Big fan of this guys content, been watching for years. Eats his crow about how he was wrong about his high opinion of the team last year. Solid breakdown and goes in depth everywhere. Very complimentary of what we have done this offseason. Also there's this bit about the QB position at around 43:30: He goes on to talk about the guard play was the worst in the league, the play design sucked, the play calling sucked, the WRs couldn't separate, there was no run game, and on top of it all there was a ton of bad luck that made things go from bad to worse whether it be bad spots from refs, fumbles on successful looking drives, big plays being called back, and unfortunate and untimely drops. Everything that could go wrong last season, did go wrong. That's why I'm not completely writing Bryce off yet, even though many already have. See what he does with even competent level supporting cast and coaching. Here's to hoping Canales and co can provide at least that much.

You're right. To be fair to you, you've been calling him a bust since AT LEAST week 4.

There were some. There were legitimately some. I remember one or two posters in particular that shat on CMC the entire rookie campaign and said Kamara was the better RB and CMC couldn't make people miss, "Couldn't juke or even hurdle" anyone, and a few other thinly veiled skin pigment related criticisms. They don't talk much on here anymore.

Regarding the Vibes thread from a few days ago, this is what I'm talking about. These are more than just standard coachspeak answers. There's no "DBO" catchphrases, no "gotta be tougher and stronger" BS, no "1% better each practice" with little to no detail in the responses. "How's the QB looking?" "Good! Here's what we're doing, what he does well, and what we are working on as we go through the practices. We will be doing different things each day, etc. etc." Again, no idea if he knows his poo or is even competent, but it's nice to hear more tangible answers.

Based solely on his pressers, I dig his vibe, and I am an agnostic-atheist. Seems like he is an emotionally intelligent guy, something Rhule severely lacked and I have no idea if Frank knows what that means. He has energy and seems sincere when he talks, which Rhule never did, and Frank looked lost out there. His answers seem thoughtful and less coach-speaky, which I find refreshing. He SEEMS competent, but I have no idea just how competent he is. I'm interested to see how well the team Morgan put together for him does. There seemed like a more cohesive plan going into the offseason based on who we signed and drafted, and we haven't had one of those in years, it was just: Step 1: Get QB Step 2: Figure the rest out later I suppose we'll see. It's nice having a dude with positive energy, not zero energy like Reich, nor coked up car salesman energy like Rhule.

He's hot

I don't expect him to break KB's 1008 rookie receiving yards. KB got force fed the ball, we will have Thielen and Johnson ahead of him in terms of yards and catches imo.

That was the one I saw where he looked terrified and ran through his read. Zero confidence or Rhythm back there.

Solid breakdown. Don't agree with everything but I agree with a lot. On some of the plays he blamed on Bryce, I think it was a play design/play progression issue and not necessarily Bryce missing seeing open guys, but then again, should he have been able to recognize the players who would be open based on coverage pre-snap as his super processor was supposed to be his best trait? Bryce's confidence was shot by this game and you could see him rush through his reads on multiple plays. Hopefully that gets better this year and we didn't completely ruin him and make him gunshy a la David Carr. I know Canales is big on the fundamentals so I am hoping to see better footwork and timing related to it on the play designs this coming season.

before even finishing the video, I dig the guy's vibe. Appreciate the commitment to watching without rage baiting.

He is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Sanders. He is also SIGNIFICANTLY more injury prone than any RB that I can remember in the past decade.

Just saw that too. This doesn't bode well for Miles Sanders.

Not that anything I say is going to change your mind, but it sure looks like you're looking for reasons to hate Tepper for this draft when there wasn't any evidence that he was overbearing this time around. Plenty of evidence in past drafts, front and center, wife fielding calls, going to pro days, etc. but this one, I haven't seen anything that says he was pulling strings this time around. It's like you saw him in the draft room and got immediately pissed at his face, which is valid to some degree, but damn near every owner is in the war room during the draft. If this draft sucks I think it's 100% on Dan and Canales this time. There was no FO consensus on who we picked but Dan and Dave seem to be on the same page.

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It was the pro scouts, still have the same college scouts as of now.

Honestly fine with it. FO offseason and Team offseasons don't line up and this team's FA acquisitions have been absolutely crap the past 5+years. Yes the GM signs the guys but he's relying on the info from the scouts. No love lost on my end. Hope the next guys we bring in are better.

I still don't see how people think Dalton ran the offense "So much better than Bryce". It was better, don't get me wrong, but it was for one game against one of the worst defenses in the league when he threw for 360 yards (47 of which came on a busted coverage) off of 60 passes (which is the lowest YPA of his career btw), completed less than 60% of said passes, and we still got blown out. I'm sure we would have won 1 or 2 more games at MOST, but he wasn't going to fix everything wrong with that offense last season. The offense as a whole was absolutely poo regardless of who the QB would have been, yes, even Stroud. Probably would have looked better, but it still would have sucked and been a complete clusterfug due to all the cooks in the kitchen and Reich and co would have still been rightly fired.

That is extremely interesting. I am big on data so I love stuff like this. Why do we keep drafting these kinds of dudes?