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But Dalton SHOULD play better at this point. Minshew SHOULD play better than AR and Mills SHOULD play better than Stroud. These teams are focused on developing their franchise QBs this year so they are rolling out the rookies week 1. Unless you have a solid QB ahead of you (which most teams picking high for QBs don’t) you roll out the high pick rookie and get him use to the soles of the game.

Maybe or MAYBE he rolled his ankle on that scramble where it’s clearly twisted under the defender. He looks to be DTD with no boot which means it was looked at but nothing too serious. It is dumb to roll him out there to play through it possibly making it worse and ruining his footwork. Did you watch Burrow play through his calf injury? Yuck…

I kind of wanted to see Bryce against a weaker secondary/defense. You bring up some valid points though.

Not like MAD mad, but I guess I should have used the word annoyed or frustrated at Reich for basically saying we aren't a playoff team before the season started. I wasn't calling you out, just reminding him of a conversation where our coach said it was going to start off rough this year.

Nothing we can do but sit back and see how it unfolds. Hopefully Young and the offense will look a lot better in the second half of the season and give us some optimism going into 24 with some cap space to spend. I do think we have too many holes to pay Burns. He will probably get flipped if we keep sucking and we will have a first plus some in return. Not the Rams offer, but that's a sunk cost.

If Dalton looks great I would be calling up the Jets to trade him away. If we keep sucking trade away Burns too. Get those future picks.

I'm fairly certain they stated we would start off slow, but see improvements towards the end of the year. That was after the preseason. Remember @CamWhoaaCam got mad and you were telling him that our staff is saying what you were saying all offseason? As for the offseason quotes, I wouldn't put too much weight into any of that.

Right? Yeah we still have a long way to go. We won't be that competitive at the beginning of the season. Imagine a GM saying that during the offseason...

It's always within reach until it isn't. It's a lot tougher to flip a roster in the NFL then they realized I'm sure.

OR maybe he rolled his damn ankle and we don't need him to play through an injury that can get worse because we aren't making a playoff run this year. Sometimes the simplest answer is the right now.

You talking about the Andy Dalton Red Rifle World Tour Opening Act?? I wish I was going!!

I'm glad you addressed this. I literally choked on my water for a moment when I read "too early" and "knee jerk reaction" in these replies. Umm check every other topic on this site and that is all you see??!?!

It's why we really need Young to play this game. Defense shouldn't be as tough as the previous two.

Honestly our offense should look better having another week under their belt and going against a defense that isn't as good as the previous ones we played. We really need Young to play in this game.

Those shitty WR screen plays to Thielen for negative yards plus rarely attempting a deep pass will do it.

At some point we just need to give other WRs a chance. If Mingo and TMJ want to half ass run routes then pull them and put in other WRs. That guy from the Chiefs was running routes and catching passes in the preseason. Give him some plays. I know they are learning the offense too and Mingo needs time, but I would at least give several plays to the guys buried on the depth chart.

Jesus people crying about him not having some elite processing mind. He has been already using audibles and changing plays. Some of the great cerebral QBs struggled early in their rookie years. Hell Rodgers and Mahomes didn’t even play, Manning set the record for picks, and Brees played like 1 game later in the season. Is it frustrating to watch and disappointing as a fan? Absolutely! However saying all the traits he has that scouts love are nonexistent is beyond premature.

The hope is that next year we are competitive and make a playoff push. 2025 should be the year we are one of the top NFC teams. This of course is assuming everything goes as planned.

We are lacking execution because is a group of entirely new players on offense (including a rookie QB) all trying to build chemistry while learning a new offense. We hung around our first two games so hopefully in these next couple weeks it will start coming together and getting some wins. I’m ready to start eating some “Ws” like Jameis!

I think the point some are making is you can’t simply look at position groups in completely different schemes and tell who is upgraded where. I have definitely done this through the offseason. What people like @Mr. Scotare saying (and please correct me if I’m wrong) is bringing in a completely new staff with a completely different scheme on both sides of this ball is not only a huge adjustment but a process than takes more than 1 offseason to fully complete. A rookie QB and every starting skill position player on offense not on the OL are all completely new this offseason. Plus they are all learning a new offense. It’s borderline like an expansion team. Then the defense is switching to a 3-4 which is great for Burns and Brown but the entire rest of the front 7 was made for a 4-3. Plus they as well have to learn a new scheme. Hopefully we will see some huge improvements as players get adjusted and comfortable in these new systems but injuries to Horn, Shaq, BC and others on a team that currently has no depth isn’t helping.

Yeah that was ugly. I’d like to see a look at the whole play because the read he appeared to be looking at was being hugged by a Saints defender. Strip sacks happen to all QBs though, even Cam as we saw in the Super Bowl.

I watched him do it in the NFL, it just usually results in a throw away or incompletion so it’s not a memorable highlight.