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Shough was a second rounder. We don’t know what he is but he looks like some very good potential. And the price allows you to indulge without a ton of loss if you are wrong. I am really against trading future 1st round picks, and exponentially so when talking multiples. I can’t sign off on some mega deal for a vet in the midst of a bad relationship. No matter his talent two years ago.

I am almost as old as he is, and I hate to say it but he was too old to start a journey like that would be - if done right. What’s he gonna be, coaching an NFL team at 78 years old?

A developmental QB should have been taken in year two. Absolutely you have to buy a ticket to the QB lotto when he is your starter. Showing what he was showing, I mean. You do that, and even if you don’t hit you leave no doubt with him that we aren’t playing around. We have intentions of having that guy under center. If he wants it to be him, get on the stick.

He is the second rounder that got away. He gets some benefit of the doubt, you can afford to be wrong. Those other guys are high picks. Like that, (snaps fingers), we are free of the millstone. No 5th year 30 million necessary. No extension. No more Bryce hell.

Interesting idea I don’t know the answer to. I think he is with Pittsburgh unless they release him. I wouldn’t want them to take him back, personally.

I never understood the Pete hiring.

I am with you on the bad trade wagon. I have a red line and it starts with future 1sts. You don’t do it for any reason. In my book. But once it was done, it had to be Stroud. They are nuts.

Interesting. I never watch college ball. I might catch the title game but might not, it isn’t appointment TV for me. I watch a couple of SCar games a year plus normally the USC/Clemson. That is it. I don’t scout prospects for the draft anymore, for at least ten years now. When we pick someone, then I look them up. When we made the choice of Bryce or CJ a reality I knew I had to pretend I was a scout again… No joke, 10 minutes or less of watching Bryce video, I was 100% out. I could not understand what people were looking at with Young. I decided a lot of why people liked him so much was they had watched him a lot in college. And developed a pro Bryce bias off of that. And since I hadn’t seen him at all, I had no biases. So kind of the opposite rationale.

There was a popular narrative here especially last year about Bryce being good when it didn’t count; a lot of people pushed back, of course.

I’d take Shough’s first 8 or whatever it is over the entire first two years of Bryce. And most of this year. Want an over reaction? Not sure it is, but: Swap teams for Shough and Bryce for our two games we would be 2-0 not 0-2. The guy Shough replaced might beat Bryce out.

Both Atl and NO have responded to QB changes. I am looking at that and what it means for their future. NO in particular is worrisome. If people thinking that happen to be at odds with Bryce love, or perceived fairness to him, oh well. Call it whatever makes you feel better.

To your point of the unknowable future.. being lapped by NO on the QB hunt is really disturbing to me. Swept too. Absolutely we could be on the outside looking in, in the future. So I say Win and get the playoff game. I am expecting it given the pattern this year. But if I had assurances that Bryce would be gone if we lost Sunday, where do I sign up? I mean, talk about addition by subtraction… boom.

Burns did kind of quit on us. I forgot about that.

That is the worst part of it all, he would not be a tough player to upgrade. But we’ll sit in this mess another year. At least.

Good one. Can you imagine if we lose Saturday and the league has to wait on Atlanta to play their game a day later?