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Is this one of the ones where he doesn’t blame Young he blames about everyone else? That’s pretty much what I remember from those. Since those problems are all addressed, allegedly, everything will be great I’m sure.

Yes. I was there from the start, before the draft. I never was able to understand the love and still waiting to see that justified. We’ll see, for sure soon enough but he seems to need to go 100% effort to get any zip and power. Not at all ideal. The footwork showed issues at his pro day.

There are just gonna be things they shouldn’t try to do. You don’t force your weak points into your game, I mean why would you want to? Maybe do it so infrequently you have the surprise element. If he isn’t 1 of 11, but is more like .75 of 11? That’s on the scheme architect to account for.

Sounds like we got Ted Ginn redo with Johnson.

Well, what they spent on Young, they went through the coaching thing last year, they have a new coach brought here to fix him. They have invested in all this around him. They are going to dot the ‘i’s and cross the ’t’s and due diligence and all that, which they should do. It just takes time we really don’t want to invest but it is the prudent path. It’s going to be some sadly funny poo if after investing in the OL, all the weapons, they won’t throw it deep. I can’t believe that is going to be the case.

Yet that is what gets some people going. Ridicule and derogatories might finally get a reaction that brings about change. Not saying that’s Young but it is definitely Smitty.

They have to find something he can consistently win at. Something to hang a hat on, and do it to death until they find something else. And then do those two things to death. Rinse and repeat. I wonder how far that will go. The only thing I see is what we have already seen, I can’t imagine something much different. I am sure that is my lack of creativity and low potential for outside the box thinking, and not Young’s limitations talking.

They didn’t have the term FOMO back then, it is really good to see awareness of that concept brought forward into people’s consciousness. But it's like, never trash your system for the 1st version of a major upgrade.

Blood and guts. What’s he got to say about our offense this year?

I do wasn’t it a punt? Couldn’t put 3 guys on him at the LOS on a return. Blood and guts. Weren’t we down to Goings and then they put him out right away? What an unlevel playing field, after we had such a good team that year.

Comes down to if you take a Pittsburgh WR away and a Carolina WR away, you might look at track record to predict which team might stand a better chance of actually replenishing said talent.

You can’t answer that? Pretty simple. If he sucks so bad people can’t take it anymore.. Someone will decide screw tanking we can’t keep doing this.

If you can get things right with that it’s a plus. Any tool that you can find, you use. Okay I won’t argue the drafting of Young. Hated it. And like to go by what my mind and experience tells me not a spread sheet or whatever. I did note that we hired maybe the leading analytical guy just this offseason. If analytics was responsible for where we are now... that guy has been replaced with a universally top rated dude.

Waiting for when the game gets faster and actually physical before I even really pay attention. To anybody. I don’t think anyone had him taking on a huge role to start with, let’s give him the camp and preseason to respond to the challenge before writing the book on him.

Cola Coker

Sometimes they are so degraded they are done. Sometimes it takes another year before things are strong and the player trusts it. Hoping for the best for him.

Come on everybody knows fat people are jolly. We just hate losing in the style we have, where it went from a bad year was 7 wins to this, and all on a progressive one way slide. Every season worse than the one before.

Don’t miss him.

Even if Dante plays well it probably wasn’t a bad move.

It shouldn’t take all season to figure this out.

17 No matter what. He’ll get what he earns.

I'm like “don’t call us, we’ll call you"

I don’t think Frank really knew it was what it was, until he got the kid into the building. They were saying, it’s all on film. You have to go back to the film. I saw film of his pro day.They were there. It is inexplicable.

Yep. Tepper wants to destroy the traditions. I wish I could wish him gone.

I am going to try and pretend 2023 never happened, we got our QB after trading back into the 3rd round. Or maybe, that 2023 did happen and Bryce was great but the government needed his processor (or something) and this is the best guy we could get once Taylor Heinicke nixed a trade.