BrianS

No argument there - I think Chuba should be getting a lot more touches just to see if he's "figured it out". I was simply addressing the narrative that Chuba was still the same player he was when he came into the league. Dropping FAR too many balls. A Rhule draftee that got an inside track. He's not that player any longer. He looks like a very serviceable NFL back now in the limited opportunities he's gotten. Maybe he reverts to type with more chances. If so, fine, I'm happy to see him leave next offseason. But maybe we uncover a guy who can really help us - a guy who won't break the bank. We need all of those we can get!

The past is the past, but results matter. Chuba's results this year have been different. He's been targeted 10 times, with 9 catches and no drops with 4.7 yards per catch. He's on pace to catch 50 balls this year. I'm not saying he's 100% corrected his problem, but it seems clear he has been working on it with some success.

BC may have some faults, but this run game was something that fit his skillset. We were averaging 4.8 per carry as a TEAM in that first game. I'd never stop running the ball at 4.8 a carry.

I do agree that two games is ultimately not nearly a large enough sample size. And the bottom line is we are stuck with BY for three years. However, I do think that we fell in love with some intangibles instead of looking much more closely at what Stroud could do that Young cannot.

Just shows that you CAN turn things around with the right combination of front office, coaches and players.

I do not understand the Huddle sometimes. The Huddle would look at that and go "Not throwing deep often enough" or "Shades of Teddy". Yea, well, that guy just threw for 300 yards and 2 TD's in leading the 49ers to 30 points last night. In his 8th regular season start. There isn't a graph, chart or statistic in existence that tells you the whole story. Bryce may fail. He may succeed. But a passing chart isn't going to tell you.

I'll put a lot more weight into this sort of data around week 10 - 12. The problem with looking at data this early in the season is that it can be skewed horrifically by one bad or great performance. It's generally a good data set, but too early to be more than a Twitter talking point.

May need to revise your opinion on Hubbard. He was our second leading receiver last night. Here's the stat line: In fact, Chuba has caught all 7 of his targets this year.

Just so it's been said . . . of those 51 games, Riverboat and Rhule are responsible for 50 of them. As bad as that stat is, let's keep in mind the context. Two years from now if the streak continues it will be a massive indictment of David Teppers leadership.

I have seen enough "sneaky fast" Panthers receivers already, thanks. I'd like to see, for a change, a Panthers receiver who we can look at and go "Wow! He blew by that guy and is wide open!"

When your team only scores 14 points, turns the ball over three times and generally fails to execute you have to expect some serious critique. Yes, he was a little hard on AT. But it wasn't necessarily unwarranted. AT is the guy who is supposed to be the veteran presence in that room, leading by example. I didn't see many shots of him dusting his guy and creating an obvious place for the ball to go. It was an opinion that was critical of our wide personnel. That's fair. Our guys, AT aside, have generally proven nothing in their careers. On past accomplishments, you have to say our WR room is bottom third of the league. Until they prove otherwise, that's all they will be. Criticism warranted. We are paying about 35 million for that WR room this year. Unfortunately, only 10.5 million is being paid to players who are actually on our roster. I daresay that 25 million would be awfully helpful in improving that room. In any event, we'll know a lot more by week 10. To say we know anything after week 1 is folly.

Hate to say it . . . but it's not a freak thing. What Horn has proven over his time here is that he is injury prone. I get it, he didn't show it in college. But sure seems like it's his deal in the NFL.

Dammit! I was coming here to post the troll thread of all troll threads and you beat me to it!

The trick about separation is that it's twofold. You need to stretch a defense in order to create separation. When you allow the opponent to stack the first 20 yards, separation becomes REALLY REALLY HARD. When you have a field stretcher, you are immediately taking two guys out of the first 20 yards of field. Go watch the Dolphins game to see what I mean. The Chargers safeties are sometimes 20 yards back from the line of scrimmage at the snap. Let alone as the patterns develop. Makes it a ton easier to scheme open the short and intermediate stuff.

You know who else doesn't have a great arm? Brock Purdy. Jimmy G. Tua. Mac Jones. Ok arms, but they get the job done. It won't be his arm strength that's the problem.

I think what we learn tonite is that Mahomes is still Mahomes, and that other people can catch the ball. Kelce is great, no doubt. However, I suspect that even without him the combination of Mahomes playmaking and Andy Reid scheming is going to result in the Chiefs doing Chiefs things.

Seems like a simple "How big is your fanbase" or perhaps "How big is your local market".

CB depth has to be the priority. Our starting CB's have 7 years of NFL experience between them, and of those seven years only one year (DJax rookie) have they played in every game. I'm not sure how you can even argue that our CB's aren't injury prone.

I would be over the moon if it turns out we have the number 10 defense in the league this year. I suspect we'll be somewhere between 12 and 15 assuming everyone stays healthy. If we lose a corner - and history says we will - we'll be somewhere between 15 and 20.

No. He wasn't. Young was the #2 QB on Simms board. Simms, like pretty much every single evaluator, had concerns over size. That's it. In fact, Simms had some traits for Young that he compared to Mahomes and Rodgers.

No way Laviska plays in this game. He's in concussion protocol. Let him heal all the way up to the first real game.

Totally the wrong way to think about it. Preseason performances are EVERYTHING - especially for guys on the bubble. Preseason RESULTS mean nothing.

Stats can be very misleading. If anyone here thinks that Stroud just sat there scanning the field for nearly four seconds I've got some great oceanfront property in Colorado I'd like to get off my hands. If I were a Texans fan, I would say "Well, looks like Stroud is better at buying time".

Or terrible by the corner. Both corners rolled up to the under. If Bryce had seen it the wide player was uncovered on the go. It was a blown coverage that they were fortunate on. Not sure who was right and who was wrong for the defense, but something was blown there.

I swear our kickers are cursed. There is no other explanation.