SOJA

Hence the rarely part. Joe Burrow by all accounts is a scouting anomaly and also had one of the best college football seasons of all time.

He played better today than he has in a long time, maybe ever. He still has issues of running into pressure and at times refuses to push the ball downfield but at least he showed accuracy today that hasn't been there earlier this year

I heard Jim Nagy (head of senior bowl) say something insightful the other day. He basically was like prospects rarely jump up more than three rounds in a season. So basically a guy that is graded a 6th round pick even if he has a great season usually only moves up to a third round grade. Apparently Cam Ward had like a 6th round grade prior to this season, is he really all of a sudden a first round prospect, much less a number one overall pick? This draft to me just feels like the kenny pickett year

I propose we trade Bryce for Arich straight up. Would the colts do that? Highly unlikely but A rich at least has the physical tools to be an NFL QB and we could bring him along slow while we build up the rest of the team

But the real problem is that David Tepper is likely still pulling strings behind the scenes which again is NEVER going to be a good thing

While I hate the Dionte trade I don't think it's call Dan a bad GM yet. He revamped our offensive line in one offseason - yes the defense suffered because of this but we KNEW that was going to happen. DJ having an unpredictable blood clot and Derrick Brown gettin hurt made that decision look worse. The draft is still TBD, although it's very possible he got four contributors to this team in the first four rounds which is FAR better than we've done in like almost ten years of drafting. You can't rebuild Rome in a day. Dan was faced with a near impossible task. I still have faith in him

Jets have more longstanding misery than us but if you asked me to trade situations I'd take the Jets over ours. Their roster is much closer to being competent than we are Again we are the least talented team in the NFL

Anyone could have predicted Payton was going to try to run up the score on us, many of on the Huddle did pregame. But I appreciate Jaycee's heart. At least he cares. Don't know if you can say the same about everyone on this team

there has to be some improvement moving forward with Canales. He's a rookie HC so I expected growing pains but the offense is regressing and the team doesn't seem prepared. We have a loser mentality and culture here, largely thanks to David Tepper's decisions. every other team in the league licks their chops to play us bc they know they are going to dogwalk us and if they go up by 10 points the game is over. I think what we truly need is a culture builder here: Dan Campbell, Jim Harbaugh, Mike Vrable type. I will be interested to see what Tepper does come seasons end but if history tells us anything he's almost certain to make the wrong call no matter what he decides.

Our defense is so bad we are out of every game by halftime. That being said Bryce still looks like Bryce. Outside of one down field throw to XL I haven't seen him throw further than ten yards He misses Mingo on a wide open wheel

I see a lot of optimism out there on twitter before this game. I want to get out of front of this. The Broncos are a well coached competent team with a good defense. We are going to get clapped

I'd be so in for the Panthers getting relegated right now. We are an embarrassment

WR is going to be a need next year as well. Not that I'm upset about that but man this team has a lot of holes

it certainly is my friend

hopefully a trade back but if not I see Mason Graham

lmao

Also kelvin benjamin for literally giving up on the route and subsequent pick 6 in which Cam injured his shoulder When you think about it: Cam is 35. If he never hurts that shoulder he is probably still our QB. Ah who am I kidding Rhule would have cut him because he was a sniveling coward and scared Cam would be a bigger presence in the locker room

nods sadly

I mean I understand that from his agent's standpoint. WRs are getting PAID right now. Why wouldn't they want him to hit the open market this offseason

fuging lol

I'm actually ok if they stand pat unless a team offers us something worthwhile. We haven't won a trade in a long time (except the Dionte deal and the Rams trade). It's ok to not have to be in on every deal when you get screwed everytime If we trade Dionte we aren't likely to get better than a fifth rounder. I feel like if he gets paid elsewhere this offseason we could get a better comp pick anyway

Tepper is like a degenerate gambler. He goes to Vegas with 100 dollars in his pocket. Instead of picking and choosing his spots he goes to the roulette table and immediatley puts 100 on a specific number. This of course doesn't work. Now he sees all his buddies having a great time so he goes and pulls another 100 out. This time however he puts it all on red to get back in on the action and loses again. So he goes back and pulls out another 100...

exactly. It was the first of many tepper moves of deleting something but instead of just embracing the tank giving up resources to patch work the hole he just made. This has been continued ad nauseum since that year.

Incorrect. In my thesis on David Tepper I will elaborate on this further. If we draft Fields that year there is no reason to give up capital for Sam Darnold (2,4,6) and no reason to trade a future third for matt corral the next year. So we could have had Fields + a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th round pick. And yet we wonder why this team has no depth. Further and most importantly....there would have been no sense in trading up for bryce. We would have been entering year 3 with fields. If he had sucked the year prior we would have had a top 3 pick. If he had been decent with Steve Wilks we likely make the playoffs or come close but either way we do not trade up. If he sucked last year then we would have ended up with Williams, Daniels or Maye. By passing on Fields when he fell to us we ultimately doomed ourselves for the future.

There has been so many but in order IMO 1- The trade up AND selecting Bryce. I put both here because basically if we chose either not to trade up we end up with Caleb Williams, Drake Maye or Jayden Daniels. If we still trade up but we take CJ Stroud that would have been worth it. Either way if either of those two factors go differently we are an entire differently organization. 2- Not taking Justin Fields when we had the chance. Not only did we trade for Darnold before the draft. We could have just sat where we were taken Fields. Let him develop under Teddy for a year and see what we had. We save the picks from the Darnold deal but more importantly....THERE would have been no need to trade up for Bryce OR trade away CMC as we still would have been giving Fields his fair shot. Further if Fields had sucked here last year we would have ended up with Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye As you can see Tepper has a cost us Williams, Daniels or Maye TWICE by his level of impatience. Now the most precious point about number two is, there is a very real chance we sign Justin Fields this offseason 3- not just keeping Cam Newton for the last year of his contract. This is truly when our downward spiral / constant moving towards a new QB started. If we keep Cam that year we likely suck very badly as it is Rhule's first year and Cam would be hurt and we likely end up with Trevor Lawrence