Proudiddy

They honestly should’ve started Perkins. We can’t evaluate poo with this fuging bum at QB.

They got Ramsey following Renfrow.

Please put Perkins in.

Plummer is fuging horrible.

Is Ramsey playing safety for Pitt now?

It’s no doubt in my mind. He’s got that something special about him.

Etienne is the future at RB. that was a hell of a cutback.

The bengals dgaf about that. It’s their OL. They’ll sign Edmund Kugbila and call it day.

2 out of 3 QBs on the worst 5 list. Nice.

I felt pretty good about us making progress this season, surprising some people, and getting some more wins than last season going into it. Now, after preseason, my expectations are much, much lower. I was talking with my friend who is a Bears fan, and we were discussing their drubbing of the Bills and how people try to dismiss it as “preseason, so it doesn’t count.” It absolutely counts. Not the wins or losses. No one really cares about that. But what the Bears are doing shows that even in a vanilla, non-specific scheme, they are executing at an elite level and they are disciplined. It shows they are well coached. They see growth in their players. Versus us - hard to tell what we’re looking at because everything is a fuging mess. In games we’re still undisciplined, be it penalties or assignments. We do NOT execute. We got random coaches calling plays that won’t be calling plays during the season, we have our players getting into fights in the last padded practice of the preseason, then we have Bryce and Chuba trying to correct it while our coach sat off to the side laughing. To be clear, I like Canales. He seems like a good dude. But, it feels like we have very little direction and discipline. You’re allowing a team who has been historically bad the last almost decade, with a losing culture that mostly bereft of talent to self-police? You’re allowing subordinates to work on pet projects at the expense of getting valuable reps and evaluation of players in during games? My friend literally brought up last night that when Ben Johnson got there he essentially put DJ Moore on notice because it was starting to be perceived that he was displaying some diva-behavior. That’s leadership. And they’re reaping the benefits early and setting a tone. My friend said there is an excitement and confidence in and around their team that’s he’s never felt his entire life. And here we are, sounding and looking like The Bad News Bears in our final week of training camp and preseason. I literally stopped watching after halftime last week. I used to watch every play faithfully, even in 2001 and 2010. It was fun. This isn’t. We are bad and our administration keeps making bad decisions to compound things. Reading poo like this today is just fuging deflating.

Interested to see what they’re publicly-stated reason is for signing Perkins?

Kurt Warner and Jake Delhomme are a thing. It’s happened. The likelihood of it happening are slim to none, but I will say this - Perkins couldn’t be walking into a better situation. On paper, he may be the most physically gifted QB on the roster. When both games we’ve played had every QB that took a snap for the opposing team look equal or better than all three of ours, I would say that bodes well for any QB we signed.

fug the Bengals. They’re not getting a first round pick. Period. They’re not. From anyone.

I think it’s worth noting that Les was able to coin “fug those picks” AFTER trading away a former #1 overall QB for their current franchise QB because the one they drafted wasn’t gonna get them there. i think that’s relevant to our situation because they identified the QB they drafted didn’t work for them and cut bait and moved on.

I’d be comfortable with a 4 year deal, IF they made the trade.

Loved what I saw of him at Virginia. A much better player to have on the QB depth chart who actually has the physical tools and ability to develop over time. Dare I say, even exciting to watch and develop. curious if this has more to do with Dalton’s injury or Plummer’s sucking.

I’ve mentioned Joe Milton and Shadeur a ton the last few weeks as guys we could’ve had for little cost, but I also want to mention Milroe was also a very viable option I was interested in. I’m pretty sure I posted it somewhere here. I had read some stuff from sources I trust that a lot of scouts were saying they felt his only real concern was accuracy and that they felt the causes were fixable, and outside of that, he was the most talented QB in this draft, or something along those lines. again, it’s why I get pissed off with all the fluff pieces our organization pushes out for certain player because they focus so much on coddling players rather than forcing them to compete. I honestly feel us not bringing in any competition is two fold, 1) Tepper isn’t ready to admit he made the biggest mistake in #1 overall pick history and 2) They don’t want to hurt Bryce’s feelings or confidence in the hopes that he can be salvaged. Both are horrible reasons to sit two years with Dalton and Plummer behind him and do nothing to provide a contingency plan or competition.

Am I wrong or did I read somewhere before he wanted 31M per?

While I agree with your overall sentiment, with our recent draft history, if it only cost a 3rd rounder, I wouldn’t miss it for what we’re getting in a known commodity in Hendrickson.

I mean, a lot of pass rushers remain effective through their mid-late 30s. The age doesn’t concern me as much as the fit and the timing.

I obviously would be excited to add such a proven, productive player, but it just doesn’t make sense for where we are.

Got a feeling it’s because the Hendrickson cost is significantly cheaper.

Really love and appreciate all you do for the board, Icege. just wanted to piggyback off a few things you said here. I trust your judgment of what you see, especially with your access to the all-22, whereas I just have the love looks to rely on. as far as Wallace, I said it yesterday in the game thread - that was not an encouraging showing. Yes, he is around the ball/play quite often, but at least twice yesterday, he was in the correct spot but got bulldozed at the point of contact for additional yardage, and I mean like 2 to 3 yards or more each. Ever since Tepper has taken over, there seems to be much more of a concerted effort by the organization to hype up certain guys, which is why I think people got fed up with the panthers bot. It doesn’t feel genuine. Sometimes it feels like a cover-up for mistakes and then as fans, we feel insulted. Like why not just give it to us straight? So, I say all of that to say, he has received a lot of hype from the organization, and yes, he does some things well, but it also feels like he has some glaring weaknesses and stuff like that point of contact thing I noticed yesterday - it feels like he’s being thrust into a position he might not be ready for. And in a lot of instances with this Tepper regime, I fear that’s often the case, but the organization tries to gloss over it with fluff instead of just making sound football decisions and adjustments. I think the fluff pisses people, me included, off. I also think it has that affect because when what we see is different from what they’re telling us to see, how can we ever trust that you’ll make sound decisions and get the ship righted? Idk, I’m rambling a little, but just something I noticed. Again, Wallace has some great attributes, but he also is struggling in some obvious places and I am not sure he is ready for the role he is being placed in. I feel like with this offensive lineup, any competent QB would easily be moving the ball down the field. That’s why yesterday was so disappointing and I don’t think you can call any reaction to it an “over” reaction. What Bryce did yesterday looked like that first year and a half all over again. The entirety of those two series looked so dysfunctional and discouraging that I honestly had forgot about the “free play” throw. That free play might have been the most damning thing of all and it didn’t even count. Bryce could’ve chucked it as far downfield as he wanted. The fact the receiver slowed down (from what I remember) and Bryce still underthrew it straight to a defender, instead of them both recognizing, “hey let’s go for the gusto!” All while Bryce got little boy’d upon throwing it. It was just a shaking-my-head moment. And again, the miscommunications, the running around with no real objective, the poor ball placement combined with the drops… it was all bad. And as I’ve stated before, my fear has been that Bryce would regress back to the mean. As bad as his first year and a half was, that isn’t just some unfortunate coincidence. That’s the baseline. His end of season stretch last year was the exception, and my fear has been that he would be unable to maintain that. Yesterday looked like he isn’t. And honestly, yesterday also again reminded me of why I never wanted us to draft him in the worst ways because we are dissecting whether certain balls should be caught depending on where they were placed in relation to direction and position of defenders, and we are doing that because Bryce is so lacking in physical ability at the most important position in the game that it requires an almost razor thin margin of error for everyone around him. It’s unfair to the supporting cast, imo. A franchise QB is suppose to elevate the play of all of the players around them, not vice versa. Just Bryce’s presence on the field requires the other 10 guys to almost be perfect every play because he can’t compensate for their mistakes. I just think yesterday left such a bad taste in everyone’s mouth because it was a stark reminder of all of that. Bryce lacks so much that it requires damn near perfection of everyone else for the offense to look not even great, but functional. We’ll see how this season goes, and I’m hoping for the best, but I was ready to bail on the Bryce project after year 1, because again, I never wanted to draft him in the first place and the early returns coincided with that. But if he can’t look functional with this supporting cast??? Man… that is going to be inexplicably frustrating.

But again, I keep saying it, Joe Milton and Shadeur were there for the taking late in the draft. Now Milton might be taking over the job in Dallas if Dak falters. Smh… On the bright side, pretty much any QB cut will be better than who we have.

Damn. I knew I felt the way I felt for a reason, and I remember stats showing he was having THE worst stretch of football of any QB that has ever played at one point, but these just further illuminate how bad it was. IIRC, the story is that Reich wanted Stroud and Tepper wanted Bryce. If that is true, I certainly hope Bryce was Tepper’s last foray into FO decisions. He should be ashamed. It’s also why I feel they’re still doing all of this due diligence and weapon adding where most teams would’ve cut their losses after last year. I still believe what we already saw that first year and a half is mostly what Bryce is. But because we are where we are now, I have to hope he can be better… but we have really painted ourselves into a corner. The draft capital, DJ, the other QBs we could’ve taken… poo set us back for damn near 5 years.