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Bryce completed a pass vs the NY defense on one field while Jamison picked off the NY offense on the other.

Good choice for today. Dante Hall did more with less as a returner than Devin Hester, who was very, very good but ultimately overrated, benefitting greatly from superb Bears ST play.

Bryce is objectively not very good at this point and appears to have developed nothing further than where he was last year, he and the offense are not having a very good camp at this point, and Canales keeping him and the offense off the field can sure make it seem like they're being hidden even more while at a minimum giving fans nothing to actually be positive about. Sorry man, but while spouting nonsensical badmouthing is dumb, it's entirely rational to criticize and have a poor outlook at this point. Doesn't mean the team (and especially the offense) can't still develop of course, but there is zilch to support that at this point.

Bingo. Just like Canales (though to a lesser degree than Bryce IMO), have to show notable and steady improvement to hold the benefit of the doubt. 2021 Lions were 3-13-1 but got steadily better as the year went on and looked like a competent football team a good amount of the time - gotta be like that.

Just checking the thread out but what a non-sequitur, as if having an anticipated expectation for the future is 'fortune telling'. This is the kind of intellectually-empty statement that made things so divisive last year. Still have the rest of the thread to check out but bet it's a lot like the prior days. It's realistic to expect things that have happened to continue to do so. Wonder how the team will look on the field this weekend.

I took so much heat for the assessment that Burns was one-dimensional and, while a very good pass rusher, nowhere near the standalone impact player that is paid the money he was asking. Still boggles my mind a bit that people watched him for all of those years and still wanted to ague that he was worth elite-tier money. The Sweat deal just solidified that Carolina was right in not giving in to his demands, but too bad that was after they blew two golden opportunities to maximize his trade value.

It really doesn't matter how things end up falling out after the trade. The bottom line is that someone offered 2 1sts and a 2nd for a single player with 1.5 years left on a contract, let alone a player as one dimensional and streaky as Burns. Even if they end up as mid/lower 1st round picks, that's still an absolute haul that saves a ton of cap. It was incredibly stupid from any angle.

On paper, and in small populous numbers, communism works. This team is USSR communism. This thread is small community communism.

So a rookie tackle is now "shoring up the OL"?

Absolutely not, but man, it says something when Bridgewater's arm looks strong in comparison.

Injured Cam... and Jimmy Clausen... and Teddy Bridgewater...

But guyz, Mingo trained with Smitty this off-season and was actually pretty good last year.

Canales hasn't had this opportunity yet so time will tell, but that Detroit team was steadily improving and fighting even though they were losing. That's what I will be judging on - is the bar consistently moving higher and are we seeing young players improving on the field week by week?

And if Bryce is healthy he is the starting quarterback. That's almost as scary. I'm mostly kidding. Mostly.

But Canales stays positive, so it's a refreshing, energetic kind of bad.

But what if Jack Plummer shows out?

The Olympics are still going on?

I have zero faith in Canales until he gives me reason to, but that's a function of Teppee's ineptitude moreso than Canales himself.

The assumption here is that he was even interested in coming to Carolina. Can't rule out that the team didn't contact him and it was not a viable possibility for one reason or another.

I'm pretty low on Bryce the player but who's to say that he isn't campaigning behind the scenes to play? There are a lot of things to criticize him about but I'm not sure this is one of them.

Looks like Marshall might have been coming in wide open on the left as well.

Brown is one of the best in the league so Moton gets an occasional pass, but no idea what Corbett was doing there. Maybe a blown assignment by him, maybe the guard, maybe both? Who knows, but it's ugly.

In all seriousness though, what's the over/under for different players reported as being first on the field? 3.5? Given the NFL's embracing of gambling I'm assuming this bet can be placed somewhere.