JawnyBlaze

I don’t care about his motivations but what I’ve seen in YouTube videos doesn’t jump off the screen as a top 20 pick to me. I could be wrong, haven’t watched a lot, but he has a quick first step but that’s about it. People like to compare him to Parsons but I don’t see it.

The one example of his “meddling” with some meat on the bone, the Bryce pick, is starting to look better. All that other nonsense doesn’t matter. He made plenty of mistakes early in his staffing hires, but I couldn’t care less if his business side is ruthless (duh) or he dumps a drink on an asshole fan. I’m glad he has been quick on the trigger for coaches, if JR were still here we’d still have Rivera and Hurney’s bum asses with still likely no Cam at this point to make them look competent. If anything Tepper waited a year too late with Rhule. Seems to have gotten this staff right finally.

Last time we had true chemistry and camaraderie like that was probably 17 or 18 when Cam was still the leader here. That is what made the ‘15 team so dominant and ‘17 team so good, it wasn’t offensive talent. This is a very good sign

I’m down for TMac with our first pic. I gotta do more research on Hunter, but I like what I’ve seen from TMac. Elite hands and body control. I said it elsewhere but I could see him and XL giving us a Fitz-Boldin combo for years. Would go a long way, with Coker as the dependable slot guy. If there’s an elite pass rusher that would also be a strong pick. What I’ve seen from Carter so far doesn’t scream elite to me, but I’ve just watched a few YouTube videos so I’m far from sufficiently educated.

I was definitely a Bryce doubter. Was cautiously hopeful before last season, quickly saw enough to lose that hope. Games 1 and 2 this year just confirmed it, and I doubted he would ever become even a decent backup. I wouldn’t say I’m “all aboard the Bryce train,” but I’ve definitely seen enough over the last three games to give him the benefit of the doubt and not be hoping we replace him. The two games before that were ok but not particularly good, these last three games have been good. He keeps it up for the rest of this season and I’ll be all aboard. What I am ready to admit is that I was definitely wrong to complete write him off, he’s shown stuff in these past three games that he never showed even a remote glimpse of the first 18 games. Huge improvement.

Not a fuging drop, Sanchez. He hasn’t had one today. When a defender knocks it out like that it’s not a drop. Just like when he got his clock cleaned early.

No problem with that challenge. Sucks the refs refuse to admit they’re wrong a second game in a row but gotta make sure we get those points and anything could happen on 3rd and 4th down. Pineiro though jfc

Oof that was really bad

Gj coach, get them points.

Hubbard deserves every penny of that contract

Great play and throw

Looks like his ankle or foot

That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. Cam was actually good at that, hitting guys in stride with good accuracy (his touch wasn’t a strength but the other two things were) while Bryce is mostly really bad at hitting guys in stride, mid at accuracy and good with touch. He’s often throwing to where guys are is read of where they will be, forcing them to stop or alter their momentum and catch behind them, leading to a lot of the missed throws that people are calling drops. I’m not trying to bash Bryce here, he’s made incredible progress (especially in accuracy), but accuracy still had a ways to go and hitting guys in stride is still a weaknesses.

I feel pretty confident that was the long term plan. This will be Chuba’s only medium size contract, and once he’s 30 if Brooks is worth it we’ll resign Brooks to a decent contract and draft another. Rinse and repeat.

at about the 6 minute mark is a definitive angle of the td catch that he was robbed of, the ball never moved, indisputable that he caught it. Why wasn’t this angle available to the refs?

Based on age, and the fact Bryce is trending up while Jameis is Jameis and will always be exactly what he is, it’s an easy decision: Bryce. If you had asked me three weeks ago, it would have been a different answer, but Bryce is showing capabilities he’d never shown any sign of before, so I’m opening up to the possibility of him actually being a legit franchise QB.

I’ve watched some TMac videos and for now I’m on board. Dude has ridiculous hands and body control. We don’t need another young WR but I could see TMac and XL being like Fitz and Boldin for us. Coker as a very high quality #3, we could be set at WR for a decade. Our biggest need is a pass rusher but as far as I can tell there doesn’t seem to be any worth a top five or ten pick. With TMac, within a year or two we could have the best offensive skill player group in the league: those three WRs plus Chuba, Brooks and Sanders. Plus a great OL. Deadly Offense.

He is certainly shifting the narrative, but I’m going to need more than two good games and two decent games. I will certainly admit that I didn’t think he’d ever be able to throw the sort of deep passes we’ve seen the past two weeks. He showed absolutely nothing prior to then, always floating wobbling ducks on any pass over ten yards. Guess he just had to clean up his technique a bit because he really has been throwing some pretty deep balls lately.

Appreciate the early analysis.

I can respect that take as well, at least it’s putting it into context and not “omgerd he’s dropping every other pass that’s thrown his general direction.” I can believe four or five drops. He definitely hasn’t been dropping at nearly the rate that a number of people here are claiming. He certainly has to work on it, but I fully expect the timing on jumps, catching with hands (which he showed plenty of in college), and concentration issues will be resolved when he’s more comfortable in the system and with playing at the NFL level in general. It’s obvious the game hasn’t “slowed down” for him yet, but I’m sure it will.

Many stats are subjective and all you can do is try to apply them under the same standard across the board. And under the same standard as all other WRs are held to, he has four drops. We could all argue what constitutes a drop til we’re blue in the face, but if we’re going to claim that XL has more than four drops then every other WR in the league also has more than they’re credited with too. So whether you want to claim XL has four drops or 40, he’s not bad compared to other receivers when held to equal standards of what is considered a “drop”.

I’ve never been a believer in Pineiro. The “most accurate kicker” nonsense is because he’s almost never asked to make difficult kicks. And when he does miss the easy kicks he’s asked to make, they always seem to be critical ones. Two misses yesterday that either would have won us the game in regular time, the miss vs Atlanta a couple years ago. He doesn’t miss the easy kicks often but when he does it hurts.

XL has four drops on the year. A lot of you guys are calling just about any pass that is in arms reach that isn’t caught a drop. Yesterday wasn’t a “drop”, it was a difficult pass that wasn’t reeled in. By the standard XL is being held to, a lot of veteran WRs would have astronomical drop rates. XL’s is 6.8%, not great but not horrible by any stretch. In college his drop rate was 4.8%. McConkey’s was 6.3% fwiw.

Yea, he should get a one or two year extension this off season. He’s still capable of being highly productive, especially as XL and Coker keep developing and Thielen can be the third option and clutch 3rd down guy.

Our top run defender is out. Sure they gave up rushing yards but they stopped plenty of drives, got turnovers and sacks, and literally stopped two of the most critical drives in the game, one each at the end of the 4th and OT