strato

It really does seem like there is a standard for players and then over here in a separate box, we have the Bryce standards. Graded on a curve. I said before 2024 that he could improve and be twice as good and that would still leave him as a subpar player. And that is what happened. Finally this year he had a couple of games that would be good for anyone. But so much of the rest is mediocre production and a small band of people pushing that as good enough. Proof. Now we are nearing the end of the theoretically beneficial rookie deal bargain years. Stakes are getting much higher. One more season of bargain left,

I feel like at three years here, he could take the mentor training wheels off. Aside from that I wonder about whatever advice he needs from Dom concerns… he should know his XOs cold. I would think a mentor could help more with things like how to handle problems with his staff, with his boss, issues with players, more stuff like that than XO stuff.

I always looked at the Burns booty as including the money saved by not paying him, along with the draft picks. And looked at the 150 million spent on guards as representing that savings. It comes out to about a wash, 30 million per goes to Burns or to protect the little fella. You know who gets the attention. Not the defense. And no doubt we were screwed when the LAR trade proposal and those details leaked.

I wonder who he would try and take with him off our staff, should he actually get hired. Hope Morgan has a good contact list.

Might have been Hayes? Def could have been McClain.

All fan bases have people that are gonna grumble about imperfection. It is part of it. That doesn’t always rise to the level of serious ‘get rid of them’ sentiments. It is just wanting more. Lots of people are hard to satisfy. I am for sure hard on any player making many millions of bucks, I just expect a lot for the tens of millions they get paid. The thing about QBs is people make them golden calves - where you can’t say things about ‘their QB’. Even though they are saying the same type of stuff all the time about other players…..

If you can’t see it, that is on you. You can know what you meant, and understand that maybe you could have expressed yourself in a way that made it clearer. You could see how it could be interpreted the way I took it. Or you don’t want to acknowledge it, as it appears is happening. See that or don’t, I don’t give a poo.

Found him last year. He was less a Bryce apologist than a lot of the homers and he puts up all 22 video with the breakdowns. Which I like. I am not religious about him but do check him out pretty regularly. He is a Panthers fan and I like that he isn’t fanning too hard and isn’t too hyped. Some of the homers wear me out.

I remember watching us play Dallas a few years later and whatever scrub we had at DT was getting abused badly, years after Jenkins was gone, and being really pissed. I thought Gettleman was gonna be great after his first draft.

Icky may be able to survive at ROT if he can come back, we have a season to watch him rehab to get a sense of what is in store for him. But you have to get the LOT replacement this year. I guess if Moton were still viable for the following year, given we wouldn’t have big money invested at LOT cap wise, we may be able to absorb the 28 million or whatever it is for him in 2027 and get another year to figure out ROT. And all that money Hunt is getting.

I remember when we let Grant go as a UFA we never replaced him for the longest time. Kind of like DT with Jenkins. We had some dark years there at DT.

That actually does probably have some effect. I wouldn’t think it accounts for all of it but when you think about how many kickoffs per game have teams starting at their 35, and realize that is 5-15 yards closer for most starting FP than it was for decades. Per kickoff…. That is something to account for.

Inevitably, one of these guys will get upgraded and then it drops the grade but I’d take this every year. Now do one with DROY. The And a couple of good OL.

Maybe you should have said that. You are here defending Bryce all the time. It reads like it reads. I thought it was out of character but it definitely could have been meant exactly like I took it. And there are people here that think that way. See it all the time. I mean, as a fan of those players’ teams I could easily say those guys are way overpaid especially Dax, for the success he brings them. The Cowboys under achieve annually. Lamar for all his ability, is hampering them financially and is now insinuating himself into coach firing and hiring. I can see why some people are turned off after years of regular season flash followed by playoff meh. Made it to one AFCCG but his numbers in the tournament are not very good. I guess I am overall disillusioned with the current NFL model of teams paying these guys so much money and killing their flexibility to add pieces.

I would say you are vision impaired or selectively blind if you can’t see the people acting like any Bryce criticism is hating. There are a couple here that leave those little turd emojis on any negative Bryce post. They go through a thread and do it to every single post that doesn’t praise him.

So you are putting Bryce on the Dax and Lamar level? As if someone wanting to replace Bryce is the same? Really?

I don’t know how that would work. Crossing fingers. If 5th years are guaranteed he is getting something like 16-17 million for 2026.

He is UFA? I would probably list him over Corbett. I was gonna say we don’t have one though. We can get along without all of them. Nijman gives us some contunuity.

30% isn’t 0%. As I said, up in the air. And we will be trying a new LOT this year, wherever it comes from. I haven’t really looked at FA or the draft to say.

Yeah I was almost going to mention the finger but he did so well last week after whatever they did to it at halftime I let it go. It could get hit and messed up worse, it is a weak point. Weather and home field crowd in Chicago are huge challenges no doubt. I can’t really be confident in LA but the inexperience of Chicago in a game with this stuff at stake is likely to be a factor, enough to make it hard to be confident in them. So who knows….

And they are cake compared to the HC gig. Paid vacation. Mandatory attendance, but still a relative vacation. I saw where Tomlin met with his players and told them he did not want to coach any other group. Was emotional. So I would say that puts him out of the race at least for this year. Or if he isn’t it paints him as a hypocrite.

I would like to see play action from the gun vs under center be accounted for. Completely different animals.

I call a 3rd significant at this point. Might they take a day 3 flier? Possible. 6th, 7th round.

I am leaning New England because Stroud has to overcome the noise, the weather, missing Collins and they are gonna pressure the hell out of him. I feel like Buffalo and Denver is gonna be a tight low scoring game. Toss up. Seattle at home? Seattle by 10. Bears and Rams? Tough one. Rams defense is suspect at this level, and weather and the crowd is going to be hard to beat. I don’t know. Home field vs mucho playoff seasoning and Stafford? I can’t pick that one either but if I were forced to I go with the experience.

I don’t know about the word itself, but people use propaganda as a tool through they can obtain political power. People that do propaganda suck. Stew is biased. He isn’t twisting facts lobbying and trying to fool people, he just has an opinion. I would maybe call him a somewhat of a shill though, when he minimizes negatives to paint the organization in the most positive light he can. He is being paid by the team. Also, he knows the players personally. You aren’t gonna get any controversial negatives out of him publicly.