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I picture them that way too sometimes. St Louis Rams.

Tough conditions to play in. I think there will be more optimism than dissatisfaction when those fans are discussing their team.

Talking NFC. I don’t know who I’d root for in the AFC. Would have to think. Sean Payton disqualifies Denver if SB 50 didn’t. But I blame that SB on us. Pats, of course, are evil. But I like. Rebel lol. I guess Bills because of the ex Panthers and the inbreeding between them and the Panthers.

I am just anti Seattle. I root for Sam, but that makes it tough. Out of the field, LAR had the best chance to go to Seattle and compete. On the short list of toughest places to play, they at least are used to it.

Well, we don’t have a ball spotting coordinator for one thing. It seems like be hard really, to visually confirm what YL the ball sits on from ground level, easy to miss. Not from the press box level, someone up there should have noticed.

Yeah I know what you wrote. What advantage does Bryce have that Canales ignores? In order to make the analogy between him and a coach whose player has advantages, there must be advantages being overlooked and not used. Is how I meant it.

What advantage would that be?

If we didn’t have Bryce at QB in 2023, no way we get the 1st pick. That we were so stupid, and turned our stupidity into this for Chicago? Exponentially worse outcome.

Only for us.

I look at drafting LOT, or OT, as cap friendly. It doesn’t look like we will be dropping 100 million on Icky. We will hopefully uncoupling the bank from Hunt after a couple more years. We won’t be paying Moton forever. I can’t see anything good that would come from underserving the OL and tight now it is LOT that needs addressing. Naturally I’d prefer not to use a 1st round pick but we don’t have the luxury of taking a guy in the 3rd and giving him a couple of seasons to develop. If we have to use it just make it count.

It made me want to not be sober. They made our offense look about like it looks like without makeup. This is tough, I hate both franchises.

I don’t think he does it for money. I think he would be great at it.

thanks for getting the name right. Lol. Yeah I think it was probably Hayden. Getting blown off the LOS.

It really does seem like there is a standard for players and then over here in a separate box, we have the Bryce standards. Graded on a curve. I said before 2024 that he could improve and be twice as good and that would still leave him as a subpar player. And that is what happened. Finally this year he had a couple of games that would be good for anyone. But so much of the rest is mediocre production and a small band of people pushing that as good enough. Proof. Now we are nearing the end of the theoretically beneficial rookie deal bargain years. Stakes are getting much higher. One more season of bargain left,

I feel like at three years here, he could take the mentor training wheels off. Aside from that I wonder about whatever advice he needs from Dom concerns… he should know his XOs cold. I would think a mentor could help more with things like how to handle problems with his staff, with his boss, issues with players, more stuff like that than XO stuff.

I always looked at the Burns booty as including the money saved by not paying him, along with the draft picks. And looked at the 150 million spent on guards as representing that savings. It comes out to about a wash, 30 million per goes to Burns or to protect the little fella. You know who gets the attention. Not the defense. And no doubt we were screwed when the LAR trade proposal and those details leaked.

I wonder who he would try and take with him off our staff, should he actually get hired. Hope Morgan has a good contact list.

Might have been Hayes? Def could have been McClain.

All fan bases have people that are gonna grumble about imperfection. It is part of it. That doesn’t always rise to the level of serious ‘get rid of them’ sentiments. It is just wanting more. Lots of people are hard to satisfy. I am for sure hard on any player making many millions of bucks, I just expect a lot for the tens of millions they get paid. The thing about QBs is people make them golden calves - where you can’t say things about ‘their QB’. Even though they are saying the same type of stuff all the time about other players…..

If you can’t see it, that is on you. You can know what you meant, and understand that maybe you could have expressed yourself in a way that made it clearer. You could see how it could be interpreted the way I took it. Or you don’t want to acknowledge it, as it appears is happening. See that or don’t, I don’t give a poo.

Found him last year. He was less a Bryce apologist than a lot of the homers and he puts up all 22 video with the breakdowns. Which I like. I am not religious about him but do check him out pretty regularly. He is a Panthers fan and I like that he isn’t fanning too hard and isn’t too hyped. Some of the homers wear me out.

I remember watching us play Dallas a few years later and whatever scrub we had at DT was getting abused badly, years after Jenkins was gone, and being really pissed. I thought Gettleman was gonna be great after his first draft.

Icky may be able to survive at ROT if he can come back, we have a season to watch him rehab to get a sense of what is in store for him. But you have to get the LOT replacement this year. I guess if Moton were still viable for the following year, given we wouldn’t have big money invested at LOT cap wise, we may be able to absorb the 28 million or whatever it is for him in 2027 and get another year to figure out ROT. And all that money Hunt is getting.

I remember when we let Grant go as a UFA we never replaced him for the longest time. Kind of like DT with Jenkins. We had some dark years there at DT.

That actually does probably have some effect. I wouldn’t think it accounts for all of it but when you think about how many kickoffs per game have teams starting at their 35, and realize that is 5-15 yards closer for most starting FP than it was for decades. Per kickoff…. That is something to account for.