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oh I completely agree I have ranted about it so many times on this website and twitter. It truly was one of the biggest poo shows a team has ever done and set us on a terrible course

IMO the biggest FO mistakes we've had the last few years are in order: 1- Trading for Darnold. We vastly overpaid at the time and even one year later looking what we got Baker for showed how bad we did. 2- Letting Reddick walk. There has been speculation he did not want to re-sign and really wanted to go home to Philly. Regardless it seems like we were content letting him go and using some of that money to re-sign Donte 3- Letting Gilmore walk. Still a Pro Bowl caliber player and he wanted to be here. Would much rather have him mentoring Jaycee anyway. 4- Signing Teddy Bridgewater. We were in a perfect position to just suck ass and tank for Trevor but unfortunately we had to get a semi competent player in 5- Not re-signing Brian Burns. This one could get erased but if he does somehow walk and we passed up all that draft capital it would vault to one, so for now I'm putting it on the list to monitor

it's week 3 there is plenty of time for us to play out of a top 5 pick but that being said our offense is much much worse than I anticipated

the legends were true. SCP lives.

he is either a) injured or b) completely in the dog house with this new coaching staff or c) sucks because how he hasn't made this into the perfect opportunity to show he's a viable WR in this league is insane

this is a really really good point. Bryce has the tools to be a very successful QB in this league. I can't believe I'm having to tell people to be patient

This defense is better than I expected and I suspect we will at least be in every game. The offense just needs to be a semblance of an nfl offense and we can easily beat some of those teams on there.

that's not the most insane trade I've seen. Higgins value is likely a first rounder plus some. Burns' value is established as two firsts and a third at minimum.

I can not believe how negative people are being about Bryce. First off he has played two games as a rookie in his career. Second off, our WRs are terrible. Watch the film, hardly any seperation ever. The few times they do get it they either drop the ball or are so slow they get tackled immediately.

even if he doesn't catch a single ball tonight he completely changes how defenses have to play against us because he is a legitimate deep threat. No more safety cheating down on the box if he's on that side of the field

Hasn't OP been the one whose posted like 7 different threads with the general thought of "You really need to realize football isn't everything, I'm totally happy now"

I mean you could easily say this was Drew Brees vibes as well lmao

I really don't know how you could watch this game and come away discouraged (except for the WR corps) considering we are starting a rookie QB and have an entirely new coaching staff outside of O-line and ST. Oh wait I know why, because the internet and having access to media 24/7 has rotted people's brains and they expect results instantly

is your recommendation to stop trying?

something no one has mentioned outside of the two INTs is that the ball bounced the falcons way on three separate fumbles, once resulted in a TO from Sanders and two they self recovered. I think if Horn doesn't get hurt that's a one score game. We get two out of those three fumbles and it's maybe a Panthers win. Score truly looks worse than how close that game was. WR will be a focus this offseason to upgrade.

hamstring injuries are so unpredictable, it's truly impossible for us to know at this point. could be anything from a few days to a few months

this isn't madden yall. Burns has all the leverage here. Someone will pay him more money that Crosby. It's literally how the league works. Records contracts get broken all the time

this I like Burns and want us to keep him but we were fooling ourselves if we thought we were going to get a huge discount in re-signing him lol

This team has all the makings of disappointed first half of the season with a strong win streak in Nov-Dec and come around christmas time you'll see our name "in the hunt" but ultimately I think we just miss the playoffs going 8-9

I think our ceiling is 11-6 but our floor is 5-12, realistically I think we win somewhere between 7-9 games

I think it's impossible to grade him fully yet because by all accounts Rhule was actually the defacto GM his first few years and even in his last season still had "final say". This is well documented. Fitt knows ball and he comes from a great culture in Seattle. I'm more than willing to give him this and next season before jumping to any conclusions.

Atlanta's offense even with Ridder at QB will be very good this year, gameplan with HAVE to be stopping the run and hoping that Chinn can cover Pitts while Jaycee blankets London.

This smells like a personal issue to me, very weird to cut your starting NT right now.

Wish I could have gone down today but had too much going on

thank you to everyone for all the kind comments, like I said I've been out of state and away for years now and have loved threads like this in the past