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Fireworks going off around here even more than the 4th of July.

FWIW, while football is not an individual sport Sam's career win percentage is .381 in 51 starts and Brissett's is .375 in 48 starts while on at least 1 or 2 arguably better teams. They are, at worst, equivalent ways to get to the same spot, as you touched on in your first sentence. I'll take Sam and some, any, actual potential for downfield explosive football. Bridgewater's win pct would be right there with them if not padded by AP carrying the Vikings in 2015 and Sean Payton in 2019.

My point is that Brissett is even worse than Teddy, and absolutely should not be any kind of starter. Has Sam (or other guys like him) sucked pretty hard at times? Sure, but even those flashes are more than milqueotast on-field players like Brissett and Bridgewater. Maybe just perosnal preference, but no thanks.

Brissett is discount Teddy Bridgewater, zero upside and even less dynamics. Great guy, but if I'm going with a middling QB at least give me someone like Darnold that has a chance of making magic happen, a la 2021 game-tying drive vs Minnesota.

Yeah, but they want to put it where people actually want to be.

All the best to Geno, but the prospect of giving him $40M per year is a very risky one.

Brett Basanez actually got signed to another team.

If only Carolina had somebody like Bradberry on the roster in years past. ...

Wings, which is what they are.

That's where the split of responsibility comes in. If Rhule had the control it's claimed he did, most Fitterer decisions have to be taken with at least a grain of salt; in the Gilmore example, perhpas it was Rhule who pushed for the addition. Now I'm not saying by any means that all good was Fitterer and none of the bad, just saying that it was a very unusual dynamic that greatly clouds the ability to judge.

Perhaps this is just me hoping, but I'd like to think that he saw the failure that Rhule was/would be and felt he could leverage that into a job that wouldn't be working with Rhule for long and that he also wouldn't have to compete for in a conventional manner. He pretty quickly got more power last season and is now the full GM, and it wasn't a difficult path to identify.

I thought so, but it seems I thought wrong.

I am almost 40 and have never heard the term 'flats' before today.

That last episode made me tear up more than once, and I'm not afraid to say it.

You ignored what I said about dynamics. If the odds of sucking are equal might as well keep the guy that has shown he can be more dynamic, for better or worse. I daresay that Darnold's team have generally been worse than at least some of the teams Brissett has played on, but this is going too far into the weeds for a discussion about what amounts to guys whose ceilings so far have been average at best. Brissett has zero dynamics and zero upside, so I'd rather go with someone else.

It's ultimately up to Reich and the team, but I'd rather see Darnold and his moments hang around then move to Brissett. Am I expecting a miracle? Absolutely not, he'll most liekly suck. But Sam has some dynamics and Brissett is in that 'Alex Smith but lamer' player category that is just so bland and predictable. Alternatively, throw a little more money at Heinecke or something, but don't wave the white flag right off the bat with a guy like Brissett.

Again, place holder how? For what? Brissett is 18-30 as a starter, including 11-19 in 'Reich's system'. I just don't see the point in wasting time when you could plop any warm body out there with some unknown characteristics and do the same thing.

At this point, screw bringing in yet another 'bridge guy'. Bridge to what exactly? And the whole 'knows the system's thing is overrated when the QB is very limited anyway, the OC is likely to be different, and it's been years since they were together . I know it's more complicated than that but damn, a signing like Brissett would be incredibly bland and pointless, just like the last one.

Brissett is discount Teddy Bridgewater, which is saying something. Pass.

I can't stand Rhule but that's the type of thing that occurs all over. Won't ding him for savvy business, particularly against a guy like Tepper, if it actually holds up. But... ... this is exactly right. Should be pretty easy to sort out one way or antoher with the offset language that is there.

Particularly Mahomes without Tyreek. Mahomes is an amazing talent and still arguably the best QB n the league but that offense has definitely looked much more mortal the psat 2 seasons than in the past.

Overrated? No. Overspoken? Yeah.

That flag gets thrown 95% of the time in today's NFL, and this wasn't a case of Mahomes running straight at a guy and stepping out at the very last second. It sure looked like he shoved him when Mahomes was clearly at the boundary and it was a poor decision on part of the defender for even inviting the possibility of the flag, a flag that again is thrown multiple times every week in the NFL. If you want to rag on the refs then I get it but that call ain't it.