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I love that. He could be a good one.

I got my conspiracy theory about the XL and Brooks picks. Not going there today but will say I absolutely hated shorting the defense in yet another draft and FA that year. We paid for it too.

Oh, you may not recall but I isolated him in rewatching a few games last year. I was really disappointed in what I saw. At the same time, a lot of that slowness could be uncertainty and hesitancy because he is still over his head out there. 3 years. I would happily take an upgrade and make him depth, no doubt.

Yeah. I am holding out hope he can be serviceable by year three. That is my ceiling for him.

That is common in rb stats. You pound and pound and then they break.

I think he did. It has the potential to be a historically productive draft relative to our franchise. And you have the dubious top 2 selections in 2024, but also Mike Jackson, CSW, Sanders, maybe even Wallace.

How can we take the other grades seriously when they throw out stuff like that?

They have for sure set the offense up to be successful with a QB that can run it.

I was in a typical argument last year with a Bryce advocate and said I could concede every point, but you still would not have an answer for the ball security issues. He coughs it up on the regular. And defenses know this obviously, the likelihood is it keeps happening. There is nothing we can point to showing it won’t. And I won’t ever concede that his margins for error are very thin due to his physical makeup. He has to be so much better than the guys with tools just to get similar results. It is expecting too much.

I’ll be strongly disagreeing that he play next year, unless he earns it. He has shown his pattern, 3rd year in a row. Why would we trust that any dim flashes like a few completions are anything other than flashes at this point? When you work at something on a high level, or aspire to, the biggest thing you have to establish is not your ceiling. It is your floor. The challenge is to get your floor up to a level where even a bad day is still decent. Not horrible, just not up to your best. But not total poo either because you will not be kept around if you can’t maintain a certain standard. It’s on you to make that happen.

Going back to the op, I sort of stopped at the anger mention. If Bryce Young were a down draft flyer like he should have been, there wouldn’t be any anger because they wouldn’t keep shoving bad QB play down our throats in that situation. He’d just be gone and replaced by the next guy. No big deal. He would merely be a footnote in team history. We are not mad at him per se, we are for sure sick of watching him play quarterback for the team. And we get mad at the turnovers and subpar performance. That happens with every crappy QB and it comes with the territory. The only thing that gets you grace when you are stinking it up, is a track record of previous success. He has not earned any grace really, because he only has like one really good game in the bank. In 2 1/3 seasons and is showing no improvement this year. Just the same issues again.

It was a good day for the team. I say this, as a non fan of relentless cheerleading style leadership: I looked at the video of postgame locker room and you can’t tell me those players aren’t bought in. It didn’t look fake to me.

Sad thing is, Bryce will never be as good as Darnold yet is like some huge cause for people, where Darnold just needed to go.

This is the problem, sides. There is performance and talent and there is lack of it. You like the kid I guess, He has a great smile and I feel bad for him because he seems like a really good guy. Reality don’t care about that.

You apologized to people yesterday. You know the truth and have admitted it. I see others doing the same, on and off the wagon every time the wind changes.

The offense can help them by getting a lead. I mean it was the Falcons but 0 points? That doesn’t happen in the NFL very often. I know the Falcons shot themselves in the foot multiple ways but the defense played a part in that 0. The NFL these days, teams are a work in progress for at least the first half of the year. We should see improvement continue for a little while. Throw Luke into any defense it is improved but this one is just waiting for that guy. A guy that could be like, Luke light, Temu Luke, would be a huge shot in the arm.

I only heard him talk a few years back when he got the job and he seemed kind of out there.

I don’t remember Ealy showing this early. But I am old with leaky memory.

I knew that would be hard for him with his arm strength issues because the velocity deficit compared to to standard gives defenders more time to close. I got major disagreement bordering on outrage for pointing it out and I didn’t say I knew, I just speculated that it was a big question. People have to remember this is a league where they parse 100tha of a second in 40 times.

I see. A cat would go insane. Lol.

I am not gonna get exhausted obsessing over semantics, parsing what a decoy is and all that - obviously your fanning is T Mac centric. I should have kept my big mouth shut. Peace.

He needs a QB.

the comp to Charles Johnson, am I misremembering that it took him until his third year to really blossom? Scourton seems ahead of that schedule.

I don’t think that’s true about us being the only team. Lots of teams with top WRs have had successful number twos because of all the attention the one draws.