45catfan

What the Cowboys did was keep the pressure on and not let Bryce pad his stats late and get the Panthers back into the game. Most teams have played passive defensively with a late lead and Bryce has been able to generate those 4th quarter drives. Yesterday, the Cowboys kept after him and he crumbled. No soft shell coverage to prevent an over the top play and allow Young to operate the underneath portion of the field. There's the blueprint to beat Bryce v2.0. I had mentioned that a team would exposed "new Bryce" eventually and it didn't take long.

Three of the four were walk off FGs by Pineiro. None of the four wins by more than 3 points.

Man, Icky has ONE bad game this year and y'all trying to run hm out of town. Bryce has a bad career to date and people are still making excuses to keep him around.

Yup, since Bryce played mediocre-to-good for a few games, Canales will be obligated to run it back We all know how that ends.

Bro, it doesn't take Ray Charles to see it going down like this:

It's going to be T-Mac-WR, Johnson-CB, Graham-DT or Carter-Edge. Hunter, Ward and Sanders will be gone. So we can get the best defensive player or the best pure WR. Still pretty good.

The Texans just locked up the AFC South in large part to Stroud and we were officially eliminated from the playoffs in large part to Young. Yup, the difference between these two guys are practically indistinguishable.

Yup.

I am really liking McCord on day 3. How about you? Rouke, Leonard and Howard would be okay late flier picks too. Again, McCord is my favorite of the bunch though.

Most likely one won't be there. It's a pretty bad QB class when by pick #4, there are no more options for a QB.

There are only two QBs worthy of a top 10 pick with the top two needy teams conveniently sitting at #1 and #2 in the draft order--Giants and Raiders. It ain't happening. Those teams are tanking and we will probably squeeze out at least one more win. We also hold the tie breaker over both of those two teams if somehow we end up with the same record. The Giants have a fairly tough last 3 games. The Raiders would have a couple of winnable ones, but I think they still tank it.

Nope, only reaffirmed them.

Oh, and he's not a WR1, not yet at least. That's why I would extend him at a WR3 rate after the season. If he flames out, there's only a small amount of egg on our face. If he balls out, then we got a STEAL.

If we were smart, re-sign him in the offseason to a 3-year extension. Coker is only signed through next season. If he balls out next year, he's only going to be that much more expensive. An extension in the spring should be VERY team friendly.

I didn't say don't improve the roster, just don't go full '21 Rams. The reason? Mortgaging the future to prop up a QB that likely still doesn't have what it takes to go on a SB run is dumb. Bryce and #1 overall draft pick is a punchline now, btw. If he was able to live up the the billing of #1 overall draft pick, this would be a different conversation, but it's not. He's got one more year to change his trajectory to franchise QB from the track of backup he's on currently.

^This. And with a better roster and a 2nd year coaching staff he can't take a huge leap forward, we all will have our answer about Bryce. No more glimpses of improvement or small moral victories. He's either going to be our Jackson, Mahomes or Allen or we need to start the search elsewhere in '26. The Giants thought it was going to finally click with Jones too, but it didn't and most outsiders saw it too. We had better not end up like the Giants.

Come on, prop the kid up to where mediocre status justifies taking him #1 overall after trading away the entire farm. Just don't call him a bust, please. Saying JAG is so much better. That's the level of play we want for our franchise QB, apparently.

First round QBs RARELY go into their 4th year without the 5th year option picked up. That is unless the team is having doubts. If Bryce looks bad to meh next year, we do not go into 2026 with him in the long term plans, period. Forget this year, it's too much of a mixed bag. He's got one more year to prove himself. All that said, I get the rookie QB contract concept, but that's only if he's THE guy. I'm still not sold on Young. Next year focus on the defense and few more pieces on the offense. If Bryce doesn't flourish, I mean completely ball out, cut bait in '26.

Exactly, the defense play has to coincide with Bryce having a career day. Winning formula going forward, right? Big picture, just improving the defense ain't fixing sh*t unless the offense gets fixed too. Not unless we get like an '85 Bears defense where the offense can be an afterthought.

Bryce can't put up the points to cover the 30+ point output that teams were laying on us earlier in the year. So the defense did improve, scoring wise, to aid in a 20 and 23 point output to beat the Giants and Saints respectively.

Until today they had been improving over the first half of the season. I'm not arguing the defense isn't bad, what I am saying is the games that we have been in lately the defense has kept the point total manageable to where the offense didn't have to be spectacular to keep us in games.

Actually, only two Philly and KC. On the flip side, why can't he beat the bad ones more regularly. I'm shocked the Giants aren't winless and the Saints have fallen into the abyss. Wins, yes, but hardly anything to boast about.

Hmmm, the games the defense played the best are the games Bryce won. Point being, our defense isn't great, but our QB can't compensate for it. Manufacturing more than 3 TDs is too big of an ask apparently.

In prior games,with exception to KC, our opponents have been held to 23 points or fewer since the Bryce "resurgence". If that threshold is too much of an ask for our offense, then maybe it's not the defense that's the real problem.

The same defense that kept us competitive the past several weeks and now we are crapping all over it. How about an offense that put up only 14 points of which 7 of them came on busted play that allowed Coker to run straight down field uncovered?