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Highly likely a rumor driven by him being #4 on the initial depth chart. Just click bait for people who don't understand that these initial depth charts are completely irrelevant.

If we wanted him, why not just draft him in the 5th? If he indeed hits the trade block, a rookie hitting the trade block in the preseason is about as glaring as red flags get.

Good god no.

Post benching, Bryce averaged 2104 yards with 15 TDs and 6 INTs. Over 10 games that means he averaged 210ypg. Extrapolate those numbers to 17 games and that 3577 yards with 26 TDs and 10 INTs. That would've put Bryce #22 in the NFL in passing yardage, 10th in TDs, 17th in INTs. Basically middle of the pack. Yeah, for a #1 overall pick and hopefully franchise QB that needs to be floor type play, especially given our investments in the OL and receiver corps. We've built it, it's time for him to deliver.

Keep in mind, depth charts this time of year mean literally nothing. The only concern of trying to make sure everyone gets listed. For instance, we definitely didn't give Tershawn Wharton a $45M contract to be a backup.

Yeah, we flat out need more out of Bryce and the receivers, period. The "new and improved" Bryce post-benching needs to be his new floor not the ceiling. Chuba did his part last year. Granted we had no depth behind him to help carry the load. That didn't help.

Question my character because I don't talk like a middle school kid? LOL! Okay.

The 14 years old language. That's the part I didn't understand. Like ain't fair. Elite QBs in their prime have a very long leash. Aging kickers who are falling off hard don't. No one expected Watson to have a sip of that Cleveland water and turn to trash and then have his Achilles turn into a rubber band but I don't think anyone is exactly sad to see it either.

We already have the league's go-to "oh poo we need a kicker" kicker on the roster. He's almost certainly the guy if Fitz doesn't get his poo together.

Yeah, let's sign a creep who also looks to have fallen off a cliff on the field. Brilliant.

Yeah, it's pretty much standard practice for anyone nursing a lower body injury to be held out of bad weather practices even if they would otherwise be out there. Sloppy footing just adds to the potential of reaggravation.

This. The goal of the preseason isn't the score at the end of the game. The goal is for your starters and primary backups to get in work and look ready to go for the regular season. Which team's camp bodies end up playing better is almost entirely irrelevant and as teams are playing their starters less and less in the preseason it's going to probably get less and less relevant in terms of being a predictor for the regular season.

The opposite is actually true. The correlation is pretty weak. The only strong correlation there is that if you completely suck in the preseason then you're highly likely to lose your week one game. After that the correlation drops to practically nil. https://www.rcharlie.com/blog/preseason/

Renfrow pulled a hammy and is day to day so it doesn't sound serious. Yeah, hammies have a nasty habit of lingering but any talk of this impacting his roster position is way premature IMO. If he isn't back within another week or so or retweaks it again, then it'll be fair to start speculating.

Sucks that the joint practice is gonna be a rain soaked slop fest. It is what it is. Football is an outdoor sport and the elements are part of the game but I'm sure both teams would prefer better conditions to get in good practice work.

Yeah, honestly simply not being a bottom 10 defense would be a significant step in the right direction. I expect the D to be rough early on but just hoping to see it improve over the course of the season driven by our rookie pass rushers getting their feet wet. Our overall defensive effectiveness is going to be highly reliant on the play of those two rookies.

The exclusivity will go to the highest bidder. Simple as that. Madden has been an absolute cash cow for EA. Can't see anyone outbidding them.

Nobody cares about the final score of a preseason game. We just want to see the guys who are likely to be on the final roster look like they belong.

Honestly was never a big Ozzy fan but War Pigs is pretty close to perfect.

The #2 seed playing their backup QB.

The worst part about the 8 team format is that they're gonna find a way to get ND in there every year. The best thing about that is that we get to see ND get skull drug by a decent team in the playoffs every year. Every time they've been out on the playoffs they've gotten beat like an old rug.

This is always the conundrum of camp. If this guy or this unit is looking good, is it because he's good or is it because the opposing unit is trash? It makes it even tougher when you're a historically bad team with few proven pieces. I mean, if a youngster is looking good against a proven player or unit that gives you a pretty good measuring stick. We just don't have many good measuring sticks.

And how has that worked out for us overall? A big part of our historic roster building issues has been way over spending both in draft capital and cap space on LBs and RBs while most of the rest of the league was focusing on QBs, WRs, CBs, and linemen.

Just accept LB is almost certainly going to be a weak spot for us this year. I'm just hoping that improved DL play with the additions and getting DB back will help make up for it. It was so bad last year because of the double whammy of being really weak at both DL and LB. If you're weak at both you're cooked. No way around it