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To look at it without any empathy for Icky, pure business, this may have saved us money but cost us a first round pick. We should not be putting any 100 million offers on the table, so there is 100 million that can go elsewhere.

That last half minute was pretty lame. Perfunctory performance, more like going through the motions and just get me out of here. This happened in the regular season too, in a loss, did it not? This happened so fast you hardly had time to take it in. Pretty disappointing. You can at least do your lil dump off and get a few yards, call a timeout. Try again. Zero freaking yards, bada bing bada boom, over, with a whimper.

I felt like the QB play in the NFL declined as far as the bottom third guys go. Seems like the floor to be number 30 was just lower. No numbers to back it up just my impression. Came to post this, hit the 4 minute mark and Simms says something I found interesting that sounds like he has a source, I hadn’t heard anyone say this before.. but it is just a line or two in the conversation of how they reevaluated the team following the season and playoff loss. I didn’t get to see the game so I am hitting the Monday morning analysis and recaps from lots of places and came across it.

Three things I certainly agree with there.

I agree on the unreliability of using this year’s performance to predict next year’s in the NFL. Even in the same season teams can be schizo, depending on injuries especially. The powerhouse of the first five weeks (Colts for instance) are pushovers in December and vice versa. And if you pencilled in the Ravens as a loss in August this year, hold on a minute by October. It isn’t what you expected. Hell we were pushovers every other week. But still it should be a pretty tough schedule.

You saw Stafford’s finger get mangled right? There are stats showing what he did prior and post that finger injury. Looks like maybe they got some relief for it at halftime maybe because he got back on track. I am not saying bad about Bryce here, just that comparison. It ain’t level. And he ain’t near Stanford as a QB.

I don’t much care if Rico leaves, I only ever saw it as a one year stay. I feel like we can go into camp with what we have minus Rico plus Brooks. If Brooks doesn’t look good enough early to compliment Chuba, there will be guys out there to fill in. And we don’t know what Etienne will look like, maybe he can step up and we won’t need as much to take up Brooks’ slack. I suppose the long shot outcome is Brooks looks great and then you are down to whether you want to trust the repair job holding up. the main thing to me is to take care of the OL because they are your run game.

I think people rightly expected to see flashes his first year and were rightly disappointed in what they saw on the field. There were some last year and he came in this year and stunk it up again to start the season. Has shown some flashes turned in some good play. Even managed to not be the biggest reason we lost in some losses. Three straight horrible stretches to open the season, will it be four? I see the good stuff but I don’t know how much I trust it.

In the Sunday locker room interview Hunt mentioned he was getting another MRI but didn’t seem worried about it.

We have the opportunity to draft Moton’s replacement and depending on who it is, possibly can sub him for Icky and slide him over the next year to replace Moton.

Where he was taken and how much that cost definitely is a big sticking point. But I think we are past that. Obviously he wasn’t football ready and developed and ready to elevate average receivers, other than Thielen lol. We are and have been playing the future game of is he even gonna be a average starter. Seems to me.

I never bought into just forgetting about a whole season. His contract doesn’t forget about it. The record doesn’t. The Bears won’t forget it either, lol. This was Bryce’s 3rd season. Now we get to find out if he makes it four years in a row of bad play to start the year.

Looked like panic. I listened on the radio, sounded like panic. What else? Bang bang bang bang empty your gun and never hit a thing.

Wanted to add to that post I made a few minutes ago, one thing. My other dealbreaker. When we get shut down in the run game and made one dimensional, we have to be able to break that strategy. I am thinking he has yet to demonstrate he can pull that off and keep defenses honest.

Wish I would have been able to see the game yesterday. I can’t modify my opinion without doing that. People said we went downfield more and were aggressive. If I have one thing that is a dealbreaker out of all of it it would be the lack of a downfield game. That has been an issue since his first game in the league. If we had one I would be a lot easier on him. Even though I would never have drafted him in the 1st round, and have viewed him as totally unworthy of the job we gave him these three years.

So we would pass on him.

I am usually Mr Pessimistic as well and am looking at that 1st place schedule, at our 1-4 finish and tempering my optimism, I’ll be a wait and see type.

I get all that, not sure I went over 7 wins. So, we over achieved. Happy to be here is what it feels like from most people.

I am on the fence on Wallace which makes it pretty rough. I mean I am barely into the fence with him. Not impressed. I always counted Coker and Mike Jackson as products of it. We traded the LB we took in the 7th for Mike Jackson, pretty sure before training camp. Or right at the start of it.

Well if you became a fan in 2018 this would probably be it For me it was mostly like a trip to the dentist lol. We even got a little treat at the end.

Probably not.

I feel like we have a guy in Dan whose strong suit is defense, I look forward to seeing how he attacks it.

In a way. I get it because even though I missed the game except for the very end it seems like it was a big positive. Being happy after losing means we were just happy to be here. I think most of us were to be honest. And you don’t want that but it is hard to blame people that have been starved for success for so long.

I think you have to call the season a success given where we were. And have been for too long. Meaning it really would be tough to navigate taking power from Canales when the overall arrow is pointing up.

This was an evaluation year that turned into something better than we have had for a while. I think you got what you wanted from it in Coker’s case. Not what you wanted in XL’s case but we have our top two WRs established now. And they look good.