Bear Hands

He was part of Morgan’s network and was honestly the most promising guy willing to come here. Macdonald was my preference but he had his eyes set. Steichen was possible but we screwed that up in the Reich cycle. DC has been a part of good orgs, and worked his way into the big leagues with Pete. So some good ideas, philosophies, decent coaching approach come with him. But his actual implementation and decision making has been weak.

I wouldn't typically call this out, but the amount of people wanting to keep Dowdle after his boom stretch was insane. He is nothing special and will be 28 next year. Next. Hubbard kind of blows. We have an out this offseason with him, I see it taken. Next. Onto another attempt at a committee. Draft/FA/Brooks/Etienne

I was just saying that out of how obvious it is. Really need a guy that can cut and accelerate with that extra punch. Lemon would be a complimentary guy but doubt we go WR high yet again.

No way

He's much more Matt Moore or Carr level than the few guys who can say were at one point our franchise QBs. Collins/Steve/Jake/Cam. It sucks. But he's gonna be here next year so it's gonna be a whole thing again lol.

We should honestly just cut XL this offseason. He's like AJ Jenkins level crap

Player wise, I think XL, Corbett, Dowdle, Scott and Rozeboom's tenures have all effectively ended.

It was the case even at Bama. He stalled out way more than you would expect in college. Insane stats, but drive-to-drive was a rollercoaster. He had a lot of just dead drives, but because he didn't take sacks and didn't make crazy INTs, it never set them back. The D was good enough to bide time until the big plays came through. It's really time to end this. We won't, so I don't really know how to feel about 2026. It's getting messy yet again bc Canales is absolutely not the guy.

The final 2 weeks this year was coaching no doubt. I'm 100% out on Canales. It was that bad. I honestly don't understand how we managed some of our wins this year looking back, but its about how you finish. This was terrible, uninspired football with everything on the line. 2 weeks in a row and we can't execute simple passing concepts that allow easy completions. The players didn't have the discipline, the energy. It's very much on coaching and the lack of real vet captains. This team is void of real leadership, coaching, and top-level talent. And its been year and after year w/ high draft pick, and we get this crap when it's finally meaningful. They've proven to be a Jets/Browns level org. And it wasn't on the little guy, but he's still not it.

This was essentially our second playoff game in a row. And it was another laughable performance, refs or not. Shame on the entire org. There's no excuse to have our final 2 games, with everything on the line have virtually no offense to speak of.

We only had to score 17 tonight. Running game didn't work, honestly, the OL had some weird energy. There's the loss because nothing else really dropped the ball. It's just that we rely on a successful Run-O THAT much: -The defense bent, didn't break, had a takeaway, but the opposing team was able to make longer suffocating drives. Just needed 17 to win tonight. -Bryce had some bad moments sprinkled in with good (but not good enough) - par for the course there. A bad giveaway, some decent touch passes, but nothing special. -Some drops and bad route running -Bad situational play calls on both sides of the ball We couldn't control the clock, had some crap calls that our crappy performance made too much of a factor.

Most likely; did you gather I was trying to hype him? He did have a pretty/underrated deep ball. And 05 was a nice year given the era the league was in, but you know, he was who he was. And he had a connection with Smitty. 08/09 was when we should’ve had a new QB and could’ve run the table. To this day, his Cards debacle is still more of a wound than our Den SB loss.

JFC he still hasn’t even passed for 3k. Delhomme did like what 3200 in 15.5 games his first year here.

I wouldn't call it a hyperfocus, they factor into eval. All part of a bigger picture.

I'd say the height issue is a problem here, but overplayed in the greater context. If a guy is 6'0 but a stud, then why not, but absolutely stay away from anything once you get into the 5' range. That's where you get into legitimate physical limitation territory. One thing guys like BY/Kyler/Russ run into- you want a guy that's able to fully survey the field at all levels in the pocket, and they can't, have to modify the traditional style to do so. They can make runs/have good teams really help prop them, but when it comes time to put the team on their back in the pocket, it's rather difficult.

I would love to know how this tracks first and second target. There’s inherent inaccuracy with that unless these guys are getting each team’s playbook.

I’d have to look but those games you’re asking about are baked into the 2-18 record, just taking away the major blowouts.

I’m just highlighting the bullshit in a different context without even needing to analyze the drives themselves.

A fun exercise with Bryce to bring context to the GWD narrative: 14 wins total Of those, only 1 game where he led a win by more than 1-score. The ATL game, where he threw for 121 passing yards. 12 of those required game winning drives. Just 1 other didn't where the opposing team carved into our lead but we held it. Now reverse this... He has had 11 games lost by 1-score. So 12-11 in one score games. That's an average at best mark. And most of them had the chance-- it's a .500 mark with the opportunity to have a GWD. The crazy part in this... The rest - he's 2-18 in games decided by 8+ points which is insane. So basically, he's delivered 1 decisive victory led by a defense/run-game, we're .500 with him when we can keep it close, but get blown out nearly twice as much. Summation: Since we can't win decisively with him, nearly all of his wins result in a technical GWD.

Every few years, theres a prominent team at the cusp that decides to blow it up. Could definitely see it being the Ravens.

Even more than Bryce, our second rounders (and who we've passed on) has stung soooooo much. 2022: *traded away for Darnold (2nd, 4th & 6th - great job Fitt) - all-timer 2nd round class- Brisker, Pickens, Trey McBride, Mafe, Bonitto, Kyler Gordon, James Cook, KWIII, Wandale, it goes on... 2023: Mingo- Passed on: Tuli (oy vey), Brents, Branch, Benton, Rashee Rice, *traded away our other 2nd that ended up being Tyrique Stevenson. O-Torrence, DJ Turner, & Brenton Strange right there as well. 2024: *traded away/up for Legette in 1 lol - ahead of Ladd, Fiske, DeJean, Lassiter, Frazier, Edge Cooper...all guys who had big fans around and became studs very quickly *traded up again to get the injured Brooks - over: Frazier again, Sainristil, Nubin, Rosengarten

And the crappy thing is that this was all known pre-draft. Most had him as a 3rd-4th rounder project (but old). He's 25 in a month.

I'm more convinced Legette is a bust than I was with Mingo at this point in his tenure. He has no short area quickness, can't play against zone, you need to scheme him open with presnap movement. Another guy where you have to hyper-fixate to create an offense FOR rather than create an aspiring offense WITH.

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I'll take our original 23' pick (Jalen Carter), DJ Moore back and the likely top-4 pick in 2024 that would have given us Maye after starting some scrub for 2023. And Steichen as HC when we chose Reich. And then no Burns trade at all needed to recoup the Bryce disaster. That would've been nice.