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They never even tried to pretend that he had to win tne job. I hated that. At least make it a fake competition for appearances. Naw, just install him.

It was not the first time. But it all runs together. I can’t remember if it was him or the year before Frank whee saying during the week they were gonna have to get someone involved more and the game comes and it never happens. Seems to me you make them prove they can stop your run game before you just go to throwing the ball. OTOH I understand setting up the run with the pass as well but throw those backs out there and see what SF can do.

If Dave goes it will end up with Nicole; she’ll be Charlotte’s version of Georgia Frontiere. Which maybe she will, mostly, allow football people to run things.

I really think a lot of what people took from last season was kind of what they wanted to take, but I am not sure it was justified. There is a relativity thing in play. Said it before last year started too, 2024. And it is, simplified, that he was so bad that he could be twice as good and still be below average. Very general estimates there but the point is he had a long way to go to be good vs NFL standards. I think he was better but not there. People saw it relative to how bad he had been and blew it up to something it wasn’t. I mean yes he was much better, but better than what? He needed to show improvement this season over his ‘resurgence’ to finish 2024. That is proving to be difficult for him. He has topped out. His ceilings are okay to good, and when he plays Atlanta, very good. But his floor is still really low. I don’t think that is changing this year if it didn’t against the Saints and on Monday. I am okay with pulling the plug and really don’t feel the need to watch him play out the string. I guess he has 5 games to flip that.

I am ready to call it. 2 of the last 3 weeks have been horrible. I am for sure at the point I fear more false positives. Like that’s about all we have gotten from him the entire time.

We won’t have the same mindset under offensive coaches that we had with Fox and then Rivera. Fox, first thing he said was you aren’t tough enough. We have a head coach now that came up in the participation trophy generation. I know that can work too but I like the hard asses.

Getting the level of production we have now, doesn’t seem like it would be hard. If we just want a new fugup. Which we need better. I am ready to start the churn. Trot them out and see if we can find one that sticks.

Levis has some ability. But such a bonehead. I wouldn’t want to put any trust in what I saw in Tennessee. One thing, he may have had the big head a little thinking he had more rope than he had and now knows, probably, he blew it. I wonder if there is any sense of just give me one more chance and I will cut out the stupid stuff and listen. Is it possible he has matured?

Couple of years ago we were talking about a billboard. I doubt anything would have much effect. Tepper truly has FU money.

I think it was really obvious that Frank was not allowed to bench Bryce, and that Tepper believed he was ready to come in and start right away and wasn’t hearing any push back from Frank. The flap about the footwork that we heard about, was late in the game but it felt like there was a running feud over stuff like that. Tepper should have listened to Frank.

Can’t say I am looking forward to it

Free country bro. I don’t like the word. I don’t like a couple of other words. I get that they put themselves out there and make all the money and they need some thick skin. Just certain words, I don’t like when people casually drop them on someone, Like I said, say they suck, say any number of things, just certain words I feel are so demeaning they shouldn’t be used in the context of someone’s sports ability. If you steal rob rape murder, okay you can be called trash and a lot worse but if you can’t make a jump shot, I don’t like hearing it.

He was definitely the consolation prize for missing out on Milton Williams. I think he is here mostly because of Tillis’ KC history.

I guess not. Do we have enough guys to play?

I think those that got sucked back in weren’t ever really out. Anyhow, it is hard to downgrade a franchise record passing day. You just acknowledge it and look forward. I had a feeling the plan was pass against them because they are weakest in pass defense. I wasn’t sure what that would look like but I didn’t picture it being that bad. I didn’t picture 3 Ints and being bad enough to negate them. It was stupefying. For people touting his clutchness… and I thought he had some, he took the field knowing that a win puts his team in first place in the division. And completely folded.

Who the hell ever gets a 94? Damn Jaycee. Rico got like 77 for putting up well over 200 yards rushing.

That’s been going on a long time. Trash, especially. I always hate seeing people called trash. I never understood why white trash didn’t cause more outrage as far as that goes. But just trash about anyone because of how they play always really bothered me. Say they suck, I am fine with it.

“Stay with me, stay with me”

And that is a good point about the high balls. He has to angle them up so much and there is only so much real estate for ‘re-entry’. It doesn’t get back down quick enough. Unless you really float it and then you let defenders back into the play. edit this might be the scenario Gettleman dreamt of, with the really tall WRs.

I think yes absolutely that was the mandate. He wasn’t hiring someone like Frank that said they couldn’t fix him. I am gonna parse it the way I would discuss it with him, and that would be hey you know this is a tall order. I know what I am doing and will do my best and if he listens and does the work I can help him. But I can’t promise miracles and if he turns out to be a lost cause don’t blame me for it.

Said it before, I avoided his articles, interviews, pressers, all of it for a long time because I don’t want it personalized. I mean I knew nothing about him when I ‘scouted’ him and came to the ‘aw hell no’ conclusion in less than an hour. But you can’t avoid it forever, and I came to learn that he has great character afa I can tell, is a really good kid, and if he could play I would absolutely be a huge fan. God gave him everything but that NFL player gift. Sorry Bryce I can’t do it.

It is brutal alright. I hope we won’t argue over degrees of GTFO.

I would be more generous than that, and have never wanted anything to do with him. Poison pill that he is. I probably give maybe 4 actual good games and about the same number of okay, not his usual lose the game for us games. Out of 40.

this is true but like Bryce, a little mediocrity seems like a huge win. We could have and probably, no definitely, would have lost a couple of those ugly game in recent seasons. Apart from the specifics of the offense and the QB dysfunction, the team won those games. That is progress.