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He just isn’t very smart, and shouldn’t be doing interviews. That was a bunch of the wrong way to answer the questions. It is good to see where his head is at. Not that I am happy to hear his viewpoint, he has a come to Jesus moment waiting. I sort of agree that they have not used him like he was used in college or like I expected them to use him when we took him. But that is him sticking his foot in his mouf big time.

He played well enough in the Wild Card to satisfy me, in spite of what he can never be as a QB. I mean, I could deal with him if that was the baseline. His history shows that he is wildly inconsistent, and suggests that the Wild Card was not his baseline it is an outlier. He did raise his ceiling this year and I suspect he can similarly improve next year but it is a very slow climb. It was marginal improvement. And floor is the big problem anyway not his ceiling. The 5th year, you can cut him after 2026 and spread the 26.4 mil or whatever it is, over two years. So it should not be crippling.

Says some tone deaf stuff out the gate. I mean I don’t really disagree with him on some of it, but he has no self awareness there. People want to hear him say the cliche stuff “it is all on me, I have to be better” etc. And Cam is taking him round the mulberry bush with the long question.. I’m watching XL try to follow him.

I think he needs to work on his strength. Of course, his hands. I have seen him open, I am not sweating his route running as hard as I could sweat it. He is in line for significantly fewer snaps. Smaller role. Especially if they add to the room. I’d settle for some 50/50 downfield success and general improvement, that people can see. Just get himself trending up. If his hands were better he could do a lot of what a receiving TE could do. Get his brain out of the way maybe he executes with the hands. If he could just be better at coming down with the ball he could be a contributor. I guess bottom line for me is his money is guaranteed and it will cost to roster a new WR on top of that - I’d give him this camp and probably at least up to the trade deadline. And I’m sorry but the QB needs to tighten his part of the deal too. They don’t seem to be relating to each other very well.

Good. So the only poison is more money than we want to match. I’d still like to try and buy it out at a discount with a two year deal and not have to deal with it.

I have seen people answer wake-up calls and seen people disregard them and roll over and keep snoozing. He definitely got a big wake up call. We are about to find out what he is made of.

Happy for Luke. He earned it. I can’t think of many who are more deserving.

Okay he played the nice guy hands off patriarchal owner. Best kind to have. The trick in a business like that is you can’t get too attached. He looks pretty attached. I don’t think the real bottom line has changed, he is sold on Bryce. We are probably screwed unless Bryce can morph into really good Bryce every week.

I see it as we need to get two OTs of starter quality. But not necessarily this year. We can spread it out over ‘26 and ‘27. I don’t want to have to do that, but I don’t see a way around it.

I have been saying buy out his RFA year. I don’t want to worry about some team doing a poison pill contract. Which would only happen if he balls out. You hedge your bet. Give him a nice raise for 2026 and lock him in with a bump for 2027. Incentivize both years. See where you are then.

It is a bad situation from the outside looking in. He is a true optimist, apparently. But there is stuff we don’t know, and they are loaded with draft picks for two years. They have 2 1sts and 2 2nds this year and 3(!) 1sts next year. Plus their second. They made some trades and got a lot of picks back. They probably can’t, but if they can distract Woody Johnson from messing with things so much? Imagine what you could do in two years with 9 hi value picks.

Yeah man. It was ominous. I don’t how to find all the interviews from different platforms but Cam really bothered me that week, as I remember it. He was way past confident, in my eyes. I thought he had the attitude that the game was just a formality, it was like in his mind he was already picking out what hat he would wear to DisneyWorld. I was cringing at it, it is not what you want to see from a guy not named Joe Namath leading up to the biggest game he had ever played in. At least that’s how I remember it. Bright lights big city, they lost focus. We had the better team hands down, and Denver just plain smacked us in the mouth. Having Thomas Davis trying to play with that arm the size of a football wasn’t helping either.

See I am not necessarily trying to defend it as much as to understand what led to it. I accept that people new in jobs will make mistakes. Maybe FA was better, I’d need to go and look at that. It was kind of a panic situation where they had to figure it out quick. They did the OL in FA for whatever reason. Not my favorite approach at all but I understand why they did it.

Why does analyzing the motivations and thought process of a failed draft, and coming up with a viewpoint that is different from yours, or anyone’s, have to equal shoe shining? There is a box and it is okay to venture outside of it. Not a shoebox lol. A thinking outside the box And the box in this case is a prejudice against Fitterer and his subordinates. For one thing. Also an attitude that it was business as usual for the 2024 draft, and it really wasn’t some damned all hands on deck Chinese fire drill trying to cover Tepper’s butt. Fail at your peril. It is hard for me to understand that being an unrealistic scenario. And yeah I want Morgan to succeed but it isn’t a blank check. Let him do something like trade the 2027 1st round pick for a lightweight edge rusher… see what you hear out of me about that.

He fits in Carolina, go get him. Exactly what we value in a QB.

I found a place that said 3rd round. I stopped there. That might be more realistic than getting a 1st or 2nd round player for ILB. And He is a little small.

It certainly was much better, and what you cite was part of it too. But they were not thinking long term. They were thinking we have to make this happen now, or we might not be here.

Seriously you guys need to wake up and accept some basic stuff about the 2024 draft. We had new GM and new HC that were given a mandate. Maximum emphasis must be placed on propping the disaster that was Bryce Young coming off that rookie season. You know, the one got a mostly new coaching staff brought in. They were not really looking to trust a rookie C to make those calls and at the same time desperately wanted a pass catching RB to bail his scrawny ass out of trouble, with his little outlet throws. His specialty. Brooks was supposed to be ready for camp. However it worked out, wasn’t what had they in mind. It ended up worst case. Oops. But that’s what they had in mind.

Confusing. But, bring on those comp picks, let’s hire another AA DC.

Fwiw I just hit my link and it went to 2026 - but with different graphics than your link. Cue that Wayne’s World deal where they make their own sound effects.

People remind us of that all the time. By year two we probably had a better OL, in sum, than Cam did most years. We have good running backs. It isn’t all a tale of completely dysfunctional woe, with Bryce having no help. Every Bryce person seemingly, loves to tout the big time throws and all their stats, okay. That PFF page on him says 4 games of 16 regular season games with at or above a 100 passer rating, qbr, whatever it was. 11 games with under 200 yards passing including one with 40 yards net. Seahawks. They have him ranked 23d of 45 that they ranked. Putting our team’s QB 23rd out of 32 teams. In what people claim as his best season. That is officially number 1 alright, of the bottom third in the league. And they pick up the year option. He may do great next year. Or he may sit right where he has been mostly sitting - mid to low 20s. I understand we are committed to seeing him under center yet another make or break season. Thought we just went through one. Weill be doing that over. Mulligan. My question, f he is no better than 20th next year… do we have to do this again? in 2027?

To follow up, can’t edit. https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/bryce-young/123943 His PFF page. He is listed at overall grade 70.5. 26th of 43 that were graded and ranked. A little lower than I would have guessed (which was 22nd, 23rd).

He actually ranked 19th? Higher than I thought. Maybe two more years and a couple more 1st round skill players he makes it all the way to 15 or so.

Even Cam. Just hoping Bryce is the next one. I’ll take my chances. It isn’t about what he does at that point it will be about what we do. Same as with Sam, Baker, Cam…. If we do well, it doesn’t matter what they do.