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Eddie P. got word to protect the draft pick. It worked last week but it’s getting too obvious.

It was an overthrow. Thielen had no chance to catch it. Way over his head.

Young stared down that route. Also, with 2 yards to go, that was a bad play call because Thielen appeared to be the first read. Just get a first down.

Well fug, that was a really bad decision.

F’n Young’s pocket presence has been phenomenal lately. This is not the same guy we saw to start the season. Crazy that I’m enjoying watching Young play now.

That or he gets a HC gig. We’d get a 3rd in 2025 and in 2026.

It’s not superstition. I don’t know why we have a predilection to sign and draft guys who are risky. We needed a C or CB way more. This sucks, I in no way wanted this to happen but since our last good year in 2017, we’ve taken these risks way too much and it never works.

fug. When you pick a guy who is likely missing most of the season and there’s a great RB class coming in 2025, you are taking a big risk. Non-contact, ugh.

The bolded is what’s wrong with taking him. The 2025 RB class is loaded and as you can see with my post above, there were several RBs who’ve looked good that were taken 2+ round after Brooks. I think we thought Brooks was going to be this year. There was a ton of talk about him being ready at the end of training camp/early season. Chuba and the OL have been pleasant surprises and now Brooks is sharing the position for maybe 4 years. Maybe he’ll be all world, but I still think Frazier at C at that pick would have been the best move and take a RB in the 3rd/4th of this draft or even better 2025. Chuba was a 4th as well. Again, I would love nothing more than having an elite Barkley like RB on the team. I’m not going to crown anyone after 8 carries for 25 yards behind an OL that has Chuba at 900+ yards and 4.9ypc in 12 games.

May be a wee bit early on this. I thought he looked quick at times but one run he tried to go through David and it didn’t work. The second guy he made miss on the catch was Vea, a huge DT way down field. I hope he is that guy but 8 for 25 isn’t screaming anything. Every RB who’s even decent has some highlight moves. Heck, there are 5 RBs taken in the 4th or later with 300-1000+ total yards and Guerrendo is about to be the 6th. Brooks needs to be the Gibbs to China’s Montgomery to make his pick worth it.

Not much impact in Carolina because we were on a downswing. When he started for SF they were 27-10 including a SB and NFC Championship appearance. When he didn’t start, they are 7-9. I won’t disagree on the second contract but like Barkley after he got hurt, I wouldn’t be surprised if CMC has a solid year next year. 300-400+ touches a couple years in a row is typically not good for the following season.

That’s not saying much. That’s like congratulating someone for stepping up high enough to go from the street to the curb.

That dude has a history of late/dirty hits and damn, calling it Lawrence’s fault is amazing.

My god, these refs just completely suck. How they missed that facemask is beyond me unless demonic possession is common on runs where the RB’s head looks backwards. Then, just before the third quarter ends, Cleveland gets a 4th and 1 gift where the right guard jumps early and no one sees it. The announcers just showed it after the break. Both players were ridiculously obvious to a guy sitting on his couch. First call likely cost Denver a TD.

If he didn’t act like a pussy, we win the game by 10 or more. Lots of poo slinging in here but OP has some points. I watched it in person and the crowd was moaning the entire game as we kept playing conservative and it bit us in the ass multiple times. We left a lot of points on the board as if we were just trying to make sure we had a home game in the playoffs not like a team that has nothing to lose. Hekker and Eddie weren’t on their game and we continued to defer to them. I’d rather we got stuffed on every short yardage 4th down and our team learned from it as if it were practice than not give them a chance to get them. He shouldn’t ever coach afraid. We aren’t KC who has Mahomes (and the refs) to win in the end. We need to go for it because we aren’t a good team yet and it’s the only way we win games. It was just really frustrating to dominate the game for 3 quarters and go down by one after a single fourth quarter drive.

Honestly, wasn’t real impressed with Brooks yesterday at the game. Bucky looked way better, unfortunately. I thought Brooks was quicker and more elusive and would be a compliment to Chuba but he looked more like a Chuba clone. Maybe he’s rusty but he was not elusive at all. One run at David and he didn’t have any wiggle just tried to run through him and well, didn’t. We needed Legette, so I hope he improves but man, unless Brooks is really rusty, he’s going to be our big regret, especially with Frazier available to fill our C opening with a potential pro bowler.

I’m sure he is, but my point still stands. Proehl was never on Thielen’s level. Thielen’s produced even as a number 2 for years. Proehl wasn’t the top WR in Arizona his best year as a young player and had 877 yards on a team that had over 3600 yards passing. Thielen at 33 had over 1000 yards on a Panthers team that had 3200 yards passing. Thielen had 5 seasons better than Proehl’s career best season. Thielen may look similar but he’s more athletic (2 amazing catches yesterday) and contributing more IMHO than Proehl ever did for us. Not bashing Proehl but the most similar thing between the two is just the skin color. If you look at PFR, Thielen is way more comparable to Muhammad in looking at 17 game averages. Muhammad just played 45 more games.

Can someone explain to me how Cooper’s flip back to Allen for a TD was allowed? Cooper got stopped and was pushed back 3-4 yards. I don’t understand how the play wasn’t ruled down. If he fumbled, play is 100% stopped by forward progress being stopped. It makes no sense that the play wasn’t stopped. His forward progress was stopped for 3-4 yards before the pitch.

Proehl wasn’t on Thielen’s level.

He was amazing tonight. We saw that catch live and it was electric. Shame Chuba screwed up on the next play. It’s almost disrespectful to fumble after Thielen’s catch to keep the drive alive and get into FG range. It really hurt realizing we saw potentially our best play of the year get completely wasted one play later.

I was at the game and just an FYI, he wasn’t drifting the ball left. We were on the left hash mark on both misses and you can see a straight line down the hash marks is just left or right of the goal posts. He hit both straight as an arrow but on the left hash mark that’s a miss just left of the goal post. He needed to push those a little right rather than kick them dead straight. Regardless, he knows how to kick those correctly so he messed up.

BS call.

Now on? Canales should have been doing it all game. D is bailing out these pussy punts and kicks.

Ridiculous coaching by GT in OT with the 2 pt plays. They had 8 2 pt attempts including the PI and they passed with no run fake on 7 of them. The other was a QB run. They handed off to RBs 0 times out of 8. UGA finally hands it off and wins. If GT tried to run more and hands it to a RB, they score more than 1 in 8 and win. There has been a lot of stupid coaching today and yesterday at the end of games. Do what you do well and don’t screw up clock management and you might actually win. Do what we saw and you lose.

Both guys you mentioned are in the 60s on PFF and Frazier, as a rookie no less, is almost 80. You are overrating our guys. Frazier would be dominating with our guards around him. We made a mistake passing on Humphrey for TMJ a few years ago and a bunch of us were pissed passing on another solid OL and the same draftniks in here really wanted a C and we passed on another stud for a position we didn’t need to reach for this draft. Sometimes the answer is on the roster but there are still much better players. Bryce has been “above backup play” the past few weeks. Would you actually argue that we wouldn’t be improved with a top 5-8 QB like Allen or Burrow or Jackson, etc.?