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Try and keep up lol. Came in with Reich, as Evero’s mentor. I guess mentor. Advisor. Consultant.

Maybe. Just reacting quickly on 1st thought, I feel like why would Dan and Dave get their high scores if they were the bad guys iin a curfew scenario. It would be nice to know. I wonder if they want better hotels, busses, for that matter someone makes them wear a suit or tie and they hate it. No way for me to know I guess I am just yelling at clouds.

That is a convoluted mess. Cut to the end of all that and it comes down to we were picking 9th and wanted to pick 1st because we thought Bryce Young was worthy of that. I am not saying there weren’t fugups before with Burns and CMC and not taking a 1st for Moore and wherever else. Obviously there were some WTF happenings. And some were monumental in their own right. But when the dust settled we were sitting there at 9 with what we came out of all that with and then we did what we did.

The win thing, it is much more than him. They won in spite of him at times. Carried his ass. Over and out at 8-10, and that was 2025. He was 8-9 Dalton lost one, It is so subjective. He played well at times yes but let’s don’t pretend that is really winning. Still under .500. It felt good because we won more than we have in a few sorry years.

We were excited about Styles I think, in the moment. Already hyped from his interview following his meeting with Morgan, and he flat tears it up at the combine. Without going back to look, I think that was it. And us wanting a LB. He started looking pretty good to me and we have no shot at him. That’s the context.

I had the thought that if that was my present it better be panties and with Ms Claus wearing them.

That’s funny. I didn’t get much poo for what I said. I got no attention really on it until now. I am all for the playoffs but those other teams were just as good on the year as we were. A flukey hot streak finish by Atlanta, which was a hell of a job, is why we lost our way into the playoffs. I like to really earn it. It feels like you deserve it. And picking lower is worth it. The way we went in feels like they threw a bridal bouquet in the air and the girl they threw it to dropped it. Our clumsy ass had fallen to the floor lunging for it, it was dropped right into our hands. Elohel It does say a lot about the guys on the team that we showed up for that WC game. I guess that is our prize.

That’s not a bad idea. Does it even need to be a 5th if A is going? He is a good player. I don’t think he is getting run off because of his play, he can help somebody. Dan and Schoen are buddies. Hmmm If this happens or not, aside from this speculation, Dan has not has many leaks out of there. You never know what might be brewing. Which is kind of fun.

Well Bryce is getting his chance to be a marginally better passer. Nobody is coming to replace him. Though, I believe we need better than marginally. What he is so far, is on the film and in the books. And it isn’t good enough. I wonder if he thinks it is. My problem is we are still trying to extrapolate his arc and at this point it has a low angle trajectory. Gradually improving. Not rapidly improving. Multiple crappy teams have taken QBs and had them blossom. In less time. They are all around us. I don’t know what you call what Bryce has done in that context. I understand there are slow learners and late bloomers and they can turn it on, that’s fine if that’s him. But this has to be the year he makes his leap or we need to start with the contingencies.

Needs a Panthers cap.

They just gave their RB a big contract, it probably needs to be someone else. And as far as Love, if he is all that someone will covet him and we can use that to help us get what we need. Which is still a lot, special shout out to the Icky injury. So in that sense I would love for Love to fall to us.

I had that thought too. I would be relieved and yes, push another guy down closer to us. Please. I just don’t see us having a great reason to elevate a TE to our 1st round pick. Even at 19. There is no Cam here to sling it down the seam to Olsen. We are not playing that game and I don’t see that changing. edit: plus we have a couple of pretty good big receivers to work with and a promising young TE on the roster. I say TE by committee can do the job, in this offense.

Vernon Davis. Man I was strong on him. And he did nothing really. Until after Singletary ran him off the field like Wilks did Robbie Anderson. It is a pretty famous blown gasket by Singletary, who took a lot of heat from the participation trophy crowd over that. But I am pretty sure Vernon later said it turned his head around and helped him.

I am too dull to understand those spreads. But my eyes say this: When he is in the pocket and steps not just up, but through a gap so that he is alone yet still behind the LOS - he has put both the blockers and the rushers behind him, and he is in the open… that is how he can find someone. And he has made quite a few good plays doing that. If he stays in the actual pocket, he is very often dealing with obstructed vision. He has made some plays from the pocket but generally they are to the outside or a bit deeper. You just have to watch.

Just to update the summary posted back there, as of…. yesterday (?) Morgan said the 600 on the board were culled to 200. He said it usually distills further, like 130-150 players. As per my shitty memory. The 200 figure is solid.

Fix the OL so he can be protected. Past that it is his 4th year, 3rd in the same offense. A QB worthy of getting paid needs to elevate the players we have.

I like him too. Seems like the deal is structured for this to happen though, looks like it was always a 2 year deal and he probably knew that going in.

I don’t know how real his enthusiasm is but I think he is on board. I would hope this year at least has a high bar attached for Bryce. I want to tell myself that this QB shuffle they may be doing opens the door for change but we don’t know what that will look like right now.

He made a comment in there about being fooled by one year of production. Didn’t drop a name with it but do the math.

He’d have fit right in with Pearce Jr.

Me too. And his guiding principle of finding guys that love football seems pretty elemental, but people lose sight of stuff like that. He is aware of the importance of culture. We will find something out this year. The 2024 draft was pretty off. I have said why I think it went that way. Whatever the reason, it wasn’t good. The draft last year seemed to kill it. Now, Tillis admitted that with all those utter holes to fill it is not as difficult to find contributors with multiple picks. And they did. We are nearing the point where the holes are filled and we will need to upgrade from a higher level of talent than the first couple of years. We still have enough needs that I expect him to find multiple contributors again but it is becoming a bigger challenge. Can he get a future star at 19? Upgrade positions with a 4th round pick? Make wise and effective FA decisions? It gets harder.

If edge is still a lb, then yeah 3 is about right.

Him being somebody would be a great bonus.

I can see worrying about the Saints at 8. Would he truly fall to 15?

I agree with addressing stuff like that in a 1st class manner. How bad could the travel be though? Are they not chartering?