45catfan

The point is he's the victim because he was provoked. That comes back to accountability. Regardless of what an opposing fans say, as the owner of a NFL team, you need to have restraint. Again, I can't stand this douche bag. Ooops, I guess I need a drink thrown on me because of...words.

That's on the GM mainly. The GM acquires the players and the cap guy has to make the numbers work. The next 3 years, in order, we are 13th, 8th and 1st in cap room as it stands today. Not bad at all. Obviously you don't remember the Hurney days when we were always at the bottom in cap space with crazy generous contracts.

Suleiman is our cap guy, correct? Our cap space is the one of the ONLY bright spots on this team.

No accountability and the reason this franchise is doomed until he is no longer the owner.

That's a ++++ for me now. I bought into the young phenom hype at QB in the past and got burned multiple times. I'm over it. There is nothing really all that special about Brock Purdy other one thing, wisdom through reps in games. There is one thing that prepares a college QB for the NFL more than any other and that is game experience. No amount of reps in training camp can duplicate/simulate that for a rookie QB.

I agree, I just don't have to like it. Now if McCarthy is the best one left, I'm not saying take a QB for the sake of taking one and we should pass. If Penix Junior or Nix is there at #33, we'd be dumb not to take a swing. It's a talented/deep draft and if Williams and Maye weren't in it, both of them would be top 10 picks.

Hey, I can hope for a QB at #33, considering the right one is there. Nix is becoming my favorite there now. Penix Junior will be gone, especially if he has a monster game tonight.

Later bro, I wish you well! That said, the man will get paid here and become extremely average.

I'm wanting to see more of the QBs. I have my thoughts on both. McCarthy to me is a system guy who needs a ton of support. In other words, he would SUCK here.

You can say that about any position. You play the odds though, the longer you wait the chances of your pick actually being any good goes down significantly.

Not really, we've taken 3 top QBs and only 7 in other rounds. That's including '10 with a rare (only) double dip. Truth be told, even though Clausen was a second rounder, we took him with the intent of him becoming the franchise QB and the reason we took Pike later in the draft to develop as his backup. So six drafts with swings on developmental QBs in 28 years?

This is why you take swings on QBs after round one. At worst they never develop. At best you find a franchise QB. Then you have the possibilities in between which is a cheap serviceable starter or a decent backup. The point being, we don't take enough swings on QBs in the draft unless we are a top pick to ever develop depth.

And that is all that matters.

Hard to tell With all the DEI going on. If this were ten years ago you would have said she rose through the ranks on merit alone. I'm sure that would be the narrative now, but exactly how accurate would that be?

That sealed it for me as well. Until then, I was still on the fence with Scott, albeit on the other side hanging on by one arm. Throwing Frank under the bus was the final straw. At that point, I knew he was in 100% arse saving mode and would say/do anything to keep his job. Once in survival mode like that, you are functionally inept in your job capacity because everything is viewed through the lens of "will this save my job?"

I run ideas past my boss all the time, it doesn't mean he uses any of them. It may be sad, but a billionaire and lackey can be stubborn.

I think Kraft is listening to trade offers before pulling the plug on Bill. Almost a quarter century for a HC in one job is mind boggling in today's NFL. They haven't been much without Brady and Kraft know this...now. He needed some time to figure out if it was Brady or Bill behind the success and it was mostly Brady.

David Carr would sign off on this statement.

I think Frank bent to the pressure in the building. I think he knew where other people were at even though they 'supposedly' didn't know each other's pick. That's the reason both Frank AND Josh got fired because neither were firmly in Young's camp. I think it was well established that McCown was smitten with Stroud during the pre-draft process.

The Jets ans Browns always managed to find another victim, uh, head coach. If the buyout is big enough, even a good candidate will want to take a swing.

Yes, it was a slippy slope. Fallacy #1: We were only a QB away. True, the defense was in good shape and would need some time to adjust to the 3-4, but the offense was not nearly as complete as Scott had thought. Fallacy #2: Thinking Bryce was mentally ready to start day 1. No rookie QB is. The best you can hope for is to insert him into a complimentary system with nice weapons at his disposal and let him grow while taking his lumps. Fallacy#3: Our offensive weapons were 'good enough.' Scott honestly thought that what he brought in this offseason was good enough to support a rookie QB.

Eh, fully done growing? No, but you don't see dude's blow up in the NFL...that's in college. I just don't see the alpha in him to commit to such an endeavor. Bryce says he's dealt with this stigma of being small his entire life. If true, where was the drive to hit the weights and supplements in high school and college when they could have actually benefited him the most? He's always has relied on the mental side of the game. Unfortunately in the NFL you have to smart and an athletic specimen.

Nope, I see it the other way around. Fitterer is gone, so no need to defend him. I think Tepper told Fitterer to move up for a QB. He did. I think Tepper and his analytical side got sucked in by the S2 test. There is NO WAY Frank wanted a 5'8" QB. If you somehow honestly believe that, I've got ocean front property in Kansas to sell you.

Shockingly, Hurney is being retained...for now.

Can't be ignored nor improved.