Ricky Spanish

Dude, we were going to stink next year REGARDLESS of who we hired. Harbaugh and Vrabel aren't coming in with this roster and no first round pick and turning it around immediately.

Dave Canales

So wait a minute. AFC South coach has an overall win% of .550 Gets fired relatively unexpectedly because of a disappointing few seasons Panthers interview said candidate and get hyped to hire the re-tread... We did this exact same poo last year guys. Dan really is Scotty 2.0

I'm not going to make fun of anyone for being optimistic, you do you. I'm in a "Give me a reason to even care" state of mind.

I think if we are hiring Canales, we're hiring him for the culture more than anything. By all accounts he seems to be a great communicator/motivator and that's something our last two coaches were not good at. Rhule was a charlatan and the players could see through his BS. Reich was a doormat. Canales seems to be cut from the same cloth as Pete Carroll in terms of communication, so that's probably what's enticing about him.

You're right, let's judge him based on the team's record since he's been hired: Woof

So straight up, when I get put in charge of doing stuff and I have no idea what I'm doing, I crowd source ideas in such a way that it becomes a collaborative effort and I spread praise around when we reach a conclusion. If things blow up, I get to go "Welp, we ALL agreed but it didn't work out, no one to blame, let's move on". And no one gets mad at anyone, we just are disappointed it didn't work out. But I know I covered my ass. Fitt is me frfr

Nothing in that article inspires confidence for what we are doing moving forward.

I just cannot in any way shape or form get excited for anything this team does right now. The best I can do is neutral, as opposed to "fug everything about this". Can't get disappointed with neutral. Can only be impressed.

It was said numerous times across numerous reports that Fitterer ran a collective/"collaborative" Environment and Dan was his right hand man, so to me at least, that says Dan had strong input in how the roster was constructed the past few years.

Or, you know, Harbaugh didn't want to talk to Tepper in the first place because our roster is a dumpster fire. I get we don't like Tepper, but Harbaugh might be Will Smith's Dadding us right now.

Yeah I'm gonna go even further and say that's a bannable offense. I know it's hard for some of you guys just don't be dicks about the injuries.

I can only hope we can bump this thread in three years and laugh at how wrong we all were. Hope he is a good GM, not holding my breath.

So in your opinion they SHOULD waste more assets on another QB when they already have one under a rookie contract (That already cost us a ton of assets to acquire) as well as a proven vet starter who has a history of being solid and no first round pick this year? That's some Fitterer roster building logic.

I can't write Bryce off yet. I know tons of others have because they're reactionary, think they know better and want to be right, but I can't. Gotta give him next year to prove if he has it or not. The situation was screwed from the jump and literally no one looked good in our offense not named Adam Thielen. Bryce is the QB so he is the punching bag, but he doesn't deserve all the crap he's getting from the fan base because he was far from the only thing wrong with us this season. If he sucks next year, then he sucks next year, we reassess in the 2025 draft. No reason to keep sending good money after bad year over year with QBs. Ride it out with Bryce and try and fill out the roster to surround whatever QB we end up using going forward, but do it competently this time around.

I still am. They were still competitive with a ton of injuries top to bottom and managed to put up some good games with a UDFA italian american stereotype. They were hampered by talent, much like us, but they still managed to string multiple competent looking outings together throughout the season, something we couldn't do.

Well he helped put together the worst team in franchise history. No one comes out smelling like roses after that.

At this point the best thing for the team is to go with a former OC as our HC to help with Bryce's/whoever we draft in 2025's development. My personal opinion is you pair young QBs with offensive minded HC's to help get them acclimated to the NFL. QB is the most important position on the team, and it is very bad for a QB's development to have them switching coordinators year over year. Having a HC with an offensive pedigree helps alleviate that issue, especially if they can call plays as well. Once the young QB has been in the league a few years and shown some growth/success, you can re-evaluate the HC position and evaluate the rest of the team as a whole. Are things going well? Cool, keep pushing forward. Are we underachieving because the defense is tanking? Bring in a HC with a defensive pedigree to help right the ship and backfill the OC who runs a scheme the QB has had success with/is familiar with. TL;DR Offensive HC candidates are better for teams with young, unestablished QBs, Defensive HC candidates are better for teams with an established Vet QB.

Good for him, dude deserved it.

It was a collaborative effort, but it was the majority Reich's offense. You can tell due to The SEVERE lack of pre-snap motion being a Reich thing and archaic in the modern NFL. The Rams use motion at one of the highest rates in the NFL, and that's where Brown came from. Motion, PA, and RPO rates all went up after Reich left. That isn't a coincidence. Square peg, round hole trying to merge a mid 2000's offense built to be run by a statue in the mold of Peyton Manning or Philip Rivers with Shanahan style concepts built around distributing the ball quickly to playmakers to get YAC easily, all with a line built for the power run game and unable to grasp the complex blocking scheme of Reich's offense and receivers who can't get separation. Failure top to bottom.

I think Stroud would have looked better than Young here because Stroud fit Reich's offense better than Young did. However, it probably would have just been him and Adam Thielen that looked good, becuase the line still would have looked like poo and the RBs still would have looked like poo. This really is more of an indictment on Reich and his inability to adjust scheme to better fit his personnel, not just his rookie QB, also Fitterer for thinking any of the players we had on roster would fit Reich's style of play. Dildos top to bottom.

The Bryce trade didn't ruin us because we were a bad team to begin with. How do you kill that which is already dead?