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Pretty much this.

This chart posted above by @CPF4LIFE checks out versus the eye test IMO. I was going to quote the post but it was a mess trying to crop out that individual tweet on a phone browser. That chart basically screams what I saw on the field last year which was the worst starting QB in the NFL by a considerable margin and basically run of the mill bad receivers. The combination of the two yielded predictable abysmal results.

Is this where Bryce apologizing has gotten to? LOL! We're now blaming receivers for not performing miracles on the field and pulling off the impossible.

Ewers will be interesting this season. I realize it's Texas and in the NIL era they can reload at will but they still lost a 1st round WR, a 2nd round WR and RB, and a 4th round TE. That's a LOT.

I'm willing to give him basically a second rookie year and show us something but my expectations honestly couldn't be much lower. I guess we'll see. I'd be thrilled to be wrong.

Look like a legitimate NFL QB. I don't care about stats or even wins right now. Just show me something. Either show me that you can be the guy or show me that we need to move on.

But do they have this banger?

Agreed. I'm just saying that I have no statistical yardsticks I'm putting up. I don't really care what the stats and wins say. I care about what he LOOKS like. Even if we suck and the stats don't look great I want to see him making the lost of what's out there. Last year the offense overall sucked but it also very much felt like Bryce was a big part of the suck. There weren't many plays where you felt like "oh thank God we had Bryce Young at QB there to make chicken salad out of chicken poo". We saw that a handful of times all last year maybe. With a promising rookie QB in a bad situation you're going to see that a handful of times every week. You can get a game's worth of highlights out of Bryce's entire rookie season.

Pretty much. I'm basically treating Bryce as a rookie again this coming season in that I have no stats expectations, no wins expectations, I'm just looking for him to pass the eye test. Just show me that you have the talent to be a legit NFL QB.

I have deep concern that the answer might be both. Reich did a terrible job of catering to Bryce while Bryce just flat out didn't look like he had starting NFL talent.

That's kinda what I thought when Rhule got fired but then Tepper was like I just hope that we've actually found true rock bottom this time and we're ready to trend upwards.

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.