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I just hope Tepper has more patience with Canales. He has legit NFL experience but he's a first time HC. There also needs to be a realization that if Bryce doesn't look significantly better this year it's time to move on at QB.

You also have to consider the average user of their product vs. the time and effort involved in building a playbook. How many Madden players are legitimately looking for the absolute best, most accurate football simulation they can get? Most want a somewhat accurate representation that's entertaining. They're building a video game for entertainment, not trying to build a perfect football simulator. Personally, I'd greatly prefer the latter but I also understand that I'm a tiny sliver of a minority that isn't financially worth catering to. It is what it is.

Well, obviously. I think they just watch the games and then try to build a playbook that vaguely resembles the offense that coach runs.

Possibly. I just have to think that the Panthers were open with him during the interview process about being very interested to making a move on a rookie QB in the draft. Maybe they weren't open about aggressively looking to move up? Maybe Reich thought he'd also be able to get a vet stop gap? I don't know. I don't think he's as wildly incompetent as Panthers fans want to make him out to be though. I just think everything about last year's organization was a mismatched clusterfug and was destined for disastrous results.

I'm left with two possible conclusions here. One, Reich just saw a sucker in Tepper and hit him up for a check to ride into retirement on. Two, Reich took the job expecting a different QB to be the pick probably through his influence of the draft process. He and Bryce seemed like a major mismatch from the get go. Unless he was just looking for one last payday I really don't think he would've taken the job if he felt like Bryce would ultimately be the pick. There was a lot of talk about Reich always preferring QBs with good size and big arms. Now granted, all else being equal who doesn't? But it was always talked about that Bryce was basically the physical antithesis of what Reich had historically preferred at QB. Hell, maybe it was a little bit of both. I can get this newbie owner to give me a pile of money based on my experience because his woefully inexperienced coach flopped horribly and then hopefully I can influence the draft process to get the QB I want. If not, oh well. At least I got paid! LOL

I don't think it's very accurate at all overall IMO. I just think back to the Cam era. Madden had to incorporate read option in order to even begin to replicate the Panthers' offense but there were only a handful of read option plays in the playbook. Realistically, I bet at a third of our passing plays in those days involved some aspect of read option and a third might be conservative.

It cleared up here around 10pm last night. The wife and I sat out on the deck for about an hour but there was no Aurora to be seen. Saw a bunch of satellites but that was it.

I hope so. That'd be awesome. I hope he understands the work that will be involved in it. I like the prospect. I think he was a good pick and has a lot of potential. But he's obviously a long ways from being Greg Olsen right now as a 4th round rookie. Shoring up his blocking is going to be key to getting on the field early. I sure hope he's our best receiving TE already.

I mean, if you don't realize what it is that's what you'd think. I randomly got lucky as hell down at Hunting Island in SC and caught a Space X rocket launch while chilling on the beach drinking a beer at night. Now THAT was wild. They look like this It took me a few seconds to realize what it was but at first I didn't know whether to pray, poo myself, or just enjoy the last few moments of human civilization. LOL

Yep, I got really lucky and saw it too. I went out on the deck for a second to see if I could see the aurora and caught them coming over. Just pure luck.

Of all the times when I've been living in CO or VA and we were supposed to potentially be able to see the aurora I've never seen them. The times I've been to AK and you've supposed to have been able to see them it's been cloudy. I drove damn near to Talkeetna from Anchorage one night to try to find some clear sky and struck out. Who would've thunk it that I'd finally see them in fuging North Carolina. Off my deck: From a buddy across town with a helluva lot better camera:

Every year there's gonna be a handful of significant UDFAs. Somebody has to luck into them. Devalued positions are a good place to look for them.

At least there's no risk with a UDFA. Yeah, he was probably just a big fish in a small pond and that won't translate to the NFL. But hey, it's worth a kick of the tires.

Brady wasn't surrounded by near the supporting cast that Purdy is. Not even close. The Dolphins are the only other team in the league that's even in the conversation of ha ong that type of overall offensive talent. And I don't see anyone trying to put Tua as a top two or three QB and rightfully not. Trying to put Brock Purdy ahead of guys like Lamar, Burrow, and Allen is just absurd in it's face.

I was rooting for him but unfortunately an Achilles injury is an absolute career derailer for a lot of guys. I have a strong suspicion that Cousins' recovery process from his Achilles likely played a significant role in them panic overdrafting Penix. I bet there's a lot of concerns they've dumped a ton of money into damaged goods. They just put in a waiver claim on another QB too. They seem to be in pure panic mode.

Brock Purdy #2 is just hilarious. Literally no one else in that top 10 would trade their guy for Brock Purdy

He's basically the best version of Teddy Bridgewater.

I mean, everyone enjoys a great record against Tepper's Panthers.

Well, no poo. We've only had two good ones. One thanks to y'all.

Tepper needs to develop a lot more patience but if Bryce doesn't show that he at least has the actual physical tools to succeed then this isn't the time to all of a sudden develop patience.

I think he'll have marginal improvement and we'll be a run of the mill bad team picking somewhere around the fringes of the top 10 which might be the worse case scenario. I'd greatly prefer he either boom or bust. Show me something. Show me you can be the guy or just suck ass and let's move on and get it over with.

Hey, it's not Dave throwing drinks on a fan or harassing local restauranteurs so I guess that's an improvement.

We'd still suck. At least now we have 16 Bryce games under our belt. If he doesn't show significantly more promise this year it'll be time to move on.

I guarantee you that I can assemble an NFL roster that will finish last in the league. Hell, my dog can do that.

He's basically Sam Darnold minus the prototypical NFL QB build.