Jay Roosevelt

Different kind of retread. Harbaugh was actually successful as a HC in the NFL; Reich was fired literally less than 3 months before Tepper hired him here. Tepper made the classic mistake of allowing a previous mistake to lure him into another one by trying to over-compensate. He got bit hiring a coach with basically zero NFL experience in Rhule so he wanted someone with NFL head coaching experience to replace him. What he's got now is an experienced NFL loser as a head coach. What we needed was a young up-and-coming offensive mind in the mold of Mike McDaniel; someone like Shane Steichen, Kellen Moore, etc. But we passed on both of them to bring in Frickin' Frank. fug. Just fug.

At some point you have to look at the training staff. We've had injury problems going back to the John Fox era. I get the sense training staff probably doesn't get replaced with each new coaching staff.

When coaching is this bad it's hard to tell what else is or isn't wrong.

No. She could probably do a better job.

Sadly, I am forced to agree with you on this one. Hiring Reich might be an even bigger fug up than hiring Matt Rhule when it's all said and done. I can't believe I just typed those words, but yeah. At least Rhule was an unknown quantity in the pros; Reich had already been fired once. This is why you don't hire retreads.

Watching this offense right now I honestly don't think Patrick Mahomes at QB would put us in the top half of the league in yards and/or scoring. No energy; just utterly lifeless. That's a reflection of the play caller.

We've always had terrible injury issues. There's got to be a connection to our training staff. I doubt that changes much with new coaching staffs.

Sanders isn't hurt. It's a conspiracy so Reich can play Chuba.

Yeah, Bryce Young was the problem

The only aspect of this team as consistently bad as our WR scouts is our training staff.

What happened to Andy "the tall messiah" Dalton? I thought the offense was going to light it up with Bryce on the sideline. There are problems everywhere, but none bigger than the play calling and trash scheme. Reich was a huge mistake.

Imagine if we had a coach like Mike McDaniel. He's so far ahead of the league schematically it's not even funny. The Dolphins offense just moves at will.

The Dolphins are going to win the Super Bowl.

I honestly don't care what Stroud becomes. We didn't draft him.

Thielen is a solid #3 receiver at this stage of his career, but nothing more than that. Mingo is a rookie and a complete unknown who is obviously still adjusting to the pro game. Chark is the only somewhat proven NFL receiver who isn't well past his prime we have on the roster, but he's far from a #1 and is injury prone. TMJ is the biggest mystery of them all; this is year 3 and we know as much about the rookie Mingo as we do about Marshall. He's looked decent at times in the past, but has also had injuries and hasn't looked any better this year than Mingo has. Hayden Hurst is a solid player, but again, nothing more than that. Our other TEs are practice squad level players. We literally have NO ONE who scares the defense. Add to that boring vanilla playcalling from Reich and an OL that's down two starters on the interior and has basically zero depth and is it any wonder that our rookie QB has struggled so far? I don't care how fast Bryce can process, he can't 'process' the receivers open or the anticipate better playcalling. That's not to say that he hasn't left plenty of plays on the field because he has, but for a rookie to come in and be expected to overcome all of this and play like a seasoned veteran just isn't realistic.

"Make football great again!"

My God, the amount and level of hatred some folks here have for Bryce Young boggles the mind. I get criticism; that comes with the territory. But some of the comments I'm seeing... it's like some people want him to fail.

Of course he was. He's the one calling the plays.

I love how Andy Dalton has suddenly become the second coming of Tom Brady in the eyes of half the board. The assumption that he's going to "light it up" is laughable. He may have a good game, but even if he does he's still not the future of the franchise.

If you watched this team in the preseason and still went into week 1 thinking we had playoff potential you really were wearing rose-tinted glasses.

It's not out of pride. If anything it's out of a sense of self preservation. What I'm saying is that Tepper values Bryce's development ahead of a playoff berth this year. Reich surely knows that; Fitterer damn sure knows that. Reich benching Bryce would only serve as a signal to Tepper that either he's incapable of doing his job or that Bryce is a bust. In either case, it wouldn't be to Reich's benefit.

Early returns are promising, but a long way to go.

No, you wouldn't. Andy Dalton isn't the future of poo. The problem here is some of you, for some reason, expected this to be a playoff team despite all evidence to the contrary and now you're suddenly realizing that you were wrong. Starting Dalton means nothing for this staff in the long run. A win Sunday means nothing for this staff in the long run. A playoff berth with Dalton at QB means nothing for this staff in the long run. Bryce Young is either the future of this team or Tepper is going to clean house within 2 years and start over. Benching Bryce Young with a fake injury would essentially be this staff throwing in the towel and telling Tepper that they can't do what he specifically hired them to do. That would be FAR more damaging to their careers than starting him and getting poor play from a rookie QB.