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I wanted a good QB. Based on how Tepper raved about Bryce's "super processing" and his love for "analytics" it's logical to surmise that there's a good chance that he was a big believer in the S2 test. I want to say that maybe Joe Person even reported such. Fair Joe Person mockery aside, he certainly has a helluva better organizational sources than my non-existent ones.

I mean, if your "cheat code" test labels one guy basically a sure thing and he looks like trash and labels another guy bottom of the barrel and he has the best rookie seasons ever... oh wee mayne. That's pretty much a kill shot.

I thought it was around the time of the Combine but it may have been afterwards and mixed into the post-Combine talk

I think you're just not remembering accurately. That's not an attack on you, human memory is very fallible. But yeah, Stroud tanking the S2 was a HUGE deal leading up to last year's draft and largely the talk of the Combine. The S2 folks have been trying hard to spin his results as "potentially invalid".

Oh, they'll be fun to watch even if Williams is a disaster. His playing style is still going to lead to great casual entertainment.

I get it. The dude oozes talent and they have some legit WR talent. But... I have concerns.

No cause for alarm yet. But a lot of folks called me a hater for questioning how well Williams would translate to the NFL. He holds the ball forever and has way too much of a tendency to try to turn every play into a scramble drill. He doesn't play well within structure. If he can evolve he has all the tools to be great. But if he doesn't evolve he's going to be a massive bust. The USC version of Caleb Williams is a bust. You have to draft him with the plan of rebuilding him. Drafting him and immediately announcing him as your savior and unquestioned day one starter isn't off to a good start. You're just feeding the ego that's already concerning and not letting this kid know that there's a LOT of work lying ahead.

The amount of corporate survivors out there who just hang on cashing paychecks by knowing the right asses to kiss, never rocking the applecart, learning some industry lingo, and just checking boxes is pretty staggering. But that's what the corporate environment rewards. Fug that. Something has gone horrifically wrong for me to ever end up back in the corporate world.

I had to take four years of a foreign language in college. Graduating required getting to the literacy level. I literally read Don Quixote and wrote a five page later on it all in Spanish. I can't order a meal at Taco Bell these days. That was all useless.

I have to assume "continuer de frapper" means something along the lines of "continuing to suck".

It's literally all that matters. It's not like he's going to hit a growth spurt. He's always going to be sub-6'. It's not like he's going to hit the gym and show up built like Kyler Murray or Russell Wilson either. I mean, we should hope not anyway. It's just not how he's built. If he does he's gonna melt the piss cup.

He's gonna look like a slot receiver out there. He always will. Just play better. That's all I care about. His size is what it is.

I just want him to play like an NFL QB. He's always gonna be significantly undersized. No one will care if he plays well.

Dude never said a negative word about a teammate, never even spoke I'll of KB after KB tried to blame his inconsistent play in Carolina on Cam.

Exactly. When you suck and there's a major change obviously there's hope there. But the massive hopeful chance failures that have concluded in even worse abysmal failures during the Tepper era have just left me with no appetite for .ore blind hope at this point. I'm just going to sit back and wait and see. I'm done getting emotionally invested in this team's success until I see signs on the field that we might not be a complete poo show anymore. Because I've come to expect a complete poo show from Tepper's Panthers.

Cam talked about that whole situation fairly recently. It sounds like he's completely open to putting that ugliness behind them and rekindling that friendship.

KB is still a huge "what if" for me. Word from everyone that TC he tore his ACL was that he was the best player on the field and second place wasn't even close, that included opposing fans during our joint practices. What if KB doesn't get hit by the double whammy of tearing his ACL and losing his mom? I think we definitely win SB50. I don't think KB would've been great long-term but I could definitely see him being a David Boston type where he was dominant for a brief period but not for long.

Now look at the overall QB situation in the NFC vs. the AFC.

I wasn't a fan of the pick but the guy is going to be easy to root for. Hometown kid who seems like a legitimately good guy and he's country as fug. I like him even if I didn't like the pick.

Dak isn't that good. The Cowboys have had a very good OL and good weapons his entire career. He's largely a product of that. I honestly think he's probably a slightly above average starting QB in a good offensive situation. He's the type of QB that paying him like a legit franchise QB just ties a cap noose around your organization's neck.

Done

To be honest I just haven't been paying attention. I have PTSD from all these shitty Tepper hires. I'm just going to wait and see what takes the field.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Cousins' Achilles rehab isn't going great because the Penix pick honestly felt like a panic move. But then again, the Packers have probably had the best QB play in the NFL over the past 30 years with Favre and then Rodgers and now Love showed great promise last year. They didn't need a QB when they drafted both Rodgers and Love and both guys sat for multiple years. The strategy has been working. Maybe the Falcons are trying to recreate that?

Yeah, he's still gonna be 5'10" with a subpar NFL arm. Can he and Canales find a way to make that work or not? We'll see.

"Winning" the off-season is just something for the pundits to yack about. We'll see how it all plays out on the field.