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Maybe it was a wakeup call for him. That happens sometimes. And there is little doubt, after looking at last year, that he will get fed the ball.

Trading your future 1st round pick is very rarely a good idea (I took a vote among me myself and I and it is unanimous: we have a strict policy of NEVER trading a future 1st round pick. Got so mad at Hurney for doing that poo). Then you double down with the 9th overall pick, a high second round pick, and a starting WR on a team friendly contract. It is so brilliant a plan that the future 1st you traded becomes the Number one pick of them all.

Jack don’t crack and he will keep your pipes clear too. Glad for him getting a chance. Next week would be fun if they go right down the field to start with. And more fun if he came back with a 60 yard strike to Johnson. Okay doubt that is happening, the little I saw of him he wasn’t hitting on much.

Well, don’t you know they could trade DJ because Bryce wouldn’t need him, Bryce can make lemonade with lesser WRs.

Yeah, I did a look at the size thing before and figured that Brees was about the halfway point between Bryce and prototypical QB size, like maybe 6’3” 220-230 maybe. Brees is small maybe for a QB but Bryce is that much smaller.

When I think about how he looked last year, he needs to be playing because that is how you get better the fastest. And he dearly needs to be better. They spent 150 million just on two guards. Call plays they can protect on. Get your QB some time in the saddle with the new offense. If it is that bad the first series then next time hand it off 3 times and pull him. Just me...

I feel pretty good about Canales overall. He won’t be worse than what we have had. Pretty sure, and he may turn out to be a good move. We gotta get through this year. And find answers.

I feel like yes this place was heavy for the processor. You could not express doubt without catching a ton of scoffing and derision, and being told all about it. and yeah, I was totally against that trade. 1000% You stay at your spot and be creative and be better than having to mortgage your future because you can’t get one any other way.

Unfortunately that wouldn’t have necessarily changed the pick, but yeah we’d have kept a TON of assets.

If it turns out he just can’t cut it, at least make sure we don’t string it out any longer than this year.

I promised I wouldn’t bitch about Canales year one, would let him learn. Telling myself that today. Following this team is more a sentence rather than a pleasure lately.

It probably is though. More reps in practice and going against another team. I have marked that week for quite a while. Maybe not more important, but more revealing maybe.

I am feeling pretty inpatient to see what the QB will look like this year. What is the sense of him NOT playing? I know the game plan is not all QB sneaks and Hail Marys. Jets week though. Coming up. Hurry up.

I never said that I thought the 20 yard deep ball definition was instituted because of Young. If that is what you are saying you got something different from it than what I thought I was saying. I said it came up ion discussion probably because of him, and I think I said the Bryce Young fans were all for it, in so many words. IOW, he faces skepticism over arm his strength, a hard core Bryce stan will use that 20 yards designation as proof there is nothing wrong with his arm because.... deep ball etc etc All about some ball control fwiw. Hell I was a Willks guy. Those short and medium depth passes out to help with that a lot.

I responded to a specific statement that You made. It is here and it is in English. It was quoted even. If you don’t want people to refute you maybe stop saying refutable poo.

The math is too hard for me, but if you add up all the value spent on Bryce Young and divided it by the value spent on Milton or Rattler what would that look like? How many more lottery tickets could you buy?

I’m also more about real games. I don’t get it because if you are a Bryce homer you don’t want him hurt and if you are a skeptic you don’t want him hurt. I think they all should play or none should play, but worst case is this young man not get tpo prove what he is, on the field. Let’s get on with That.

That’s quality.

I was too late thinking of it to add it to the earlier post about the depth of the OL etc... Pretty sure I heard that Canales tore down the Tampa OL and rebuilt it according to his ... preferences (is that true?), and some players ended up at different positions. Telling me he is not orthodox about some things. https://www.pewterreport.com/dave-canales-bucs-best-o-line/ this is a for instance... probably there is a lot out there that might tell us something. Although he could change his tune as he is not a fully formed entity.

The bottom of the roster gets better when better talent pushes the incumbents down a level. That’s one way. I saw that with Luke’s expression. I’m just gonna hope.

I haven’t watched him but what I saw last year was horrible. Or in OTAs. Whenever I saw him throwing... I tuned right out. But here we go...

I think he should play too, it is a new offense for cryin out loud. Lotta new pieces. What we need to look out for is having people we need, on the field playing against scrubs trying to make the other team. They’ll hurt someone.

What is impact in Legette’s case? Like what are fair expectations? I think Brooks should be expected to produce, acclimate, prove worthy in 2025, if it (even) takes that long. He shouldn’t need an extra year just for missing some camp and early games of a 17 game season. (I hope) He should get at least a half season of ‘I’m back physically’ to work out whatever issues he has to, to trust cuts and contact.

What Canales said about the depth guys going with the ones, that is a big reason the OL is not gelling I would think. Once he has his fill of that they will get to work on the starting unit and hopefully start showing some progress. It seems like another thing where you sacrifice quick results for maybe elevating your depth or seeing if you need to cut bait on a young guy? Seeing who can step up?

See that’s a strawman too though, because that wasn’t the argument. The questioning was over 'is 20 yards downfield a deep ball ?' and someone even went for 15 being deep, I swear they did. And of course people will cite somebody affirming that 20 years is a deep ball - while claiming that I am just biased against Bryce Young (what? lol). It came up when people were looking for Bryce to throw a deep ball. I know Bryce can throw over 20 yards... it isn’t what I was trying to say. People are just grasping at anything to prop him up. When maybe they don’t need to, he may be better this year. He should be. Let him prop himself up. I was just saying there should be a short medium long at the least to better classify the numbers. 20 yard throw should not be valued equally with a 30 yarder, which has less value than a 40 yarder, etc.