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With you on the first paragraph. Want a vet LB that can play fast out of the gate, these young guys have to think too much. We need at least one good veteran upgrade there and if we can draft a promising player to pair up with a vet, so much the better. Do the best we can at edge, just don’t force it too hard if it doesn’t fall our way. Now, Coker? He got what, 140, 150 yards in his first playoff game? We can hold off on upgrading him for my money. I yield to the people who have been asking for the speed factor at WR. Get someone cat quick who can juke someone, and get up after a hit. If possible. I really hardly care that about TE. No high picks on one please. There should be a lot of them out there, sign one.

I have to say, whatever the reason was, Baker was not good here, there was little indication he was gonna be good. Other than that I pretty much blame Tepper for the first 7 years of his stewardship being pure misery and full of fugtardedness. Things were finally somewhat improved upon in year 8. No coach under Tepper even smelled 8 wins before. And that coach did it with Bryce Young. While most people hated on him.

I begrudgingly accept the 5th year option only because the 5th year is not guaranteed. We can get out after next year if he doesn’t throw down. History says he will not demonstrate his worthiness most of the year and then near the end he will somehow do just enough to keep the flame burning. I feel like we are really and truly stuck.

That’s if you draft the wrong quarterback. Patriots aren’t having to do that. They are straight in year two. I suppose you could argue that they did draft the wrong one and then built like you said. The difference is, if that were the case, they moved on from their mistake. That’s what I am thinking about that.

Yeah. That start to his career was about as bad as it can get. In New York, Meat grinder press corps, of the first degree, When he came here he was on OC 3 - in year 3. And people in this fan base that think they are smart, could not take that stuff into account. Now, most of the smart ones are not Bryce Stans but Bryce gets 4 damned years free pass. At least 3 The fail of the organization AND fan base in general, fuging shamefully short sighted, And the choking thing, players have to fail before they succeed. With very few exceptions. Last year was really his first meaningful, high stakes game. Okay, he didn’t play well. They learn from that, or are supposed to. You don’t throw out a guy with all those tools and with his rocky did him no favors background for not being perfect right away. He might suck in the SB, but he proved a ton this year. If we’d have had any patience he was the guy to use it on, not Bryce Young.

Your last paragraph, painful. We suffered it all with Rhule and Fitterer and were rewarded with Bryce. I’ll stop there, I have made hundreds of posts that say what I would say if I continued.

It is so depressing. The last three years, with the exception of a few games, have been sheer misery.

33 million per extension for Bryce Young makes me nauseas.

No he wasn’t but that last stretch with Wilks, you could see that he was close on a lot of stuff. At least I thought so.

I have to agree. Tepper looks pretty bad, but Minnesota and that staff/FO look like fools. As far as taking a year off with Shanahan, I’m not convinced the down alone time helped him. Picture him with hands on Shanahan coaching and that team around him and the reps he would have had, if he played. I think maybe it works out for him that way as well.

He has a high level of ability. Without that, all the grit and determination in the world would not have him where he is. PS When you pick a QB, and you settle for lesser talent, you normally get less.

I mean, take a look at those QB stat lines. Both of them near as even as you can get. .2 difference in rating. No picks. Over 700 yards between them, 3 TDs apiece. That is what a big boy QB can do for you. If the Rams had better defense they might have pulled it out.

Stafford once threw it 78 yards in the air. Said he can probably still do 68. But I bet the game ends while I am typing.

Well, we were able to burn the Rams D. And we got 54 yards passing vs Seattle. At home. What should that tell you?

This happens so often. My favorite weekend of the NFL season. This is really the Super Bowl. The two best teams are playing right now and the big spectacle will be anticlimactic.