JawnyBlaze

Hayell no. Juedy is doodie

Eh, I was down on Chuba his first couple years but last year made me think he can be a lead back. Better QB play will force teams to stop focusing on stopping the run and Chuba (and Sanders and whoever else) will do better.

Quinn is probably the worst hire. I’d guess Harbaugh is the best but riskiest. The others I don’t have a strong opinion on. Morris might be good but I wouldn’t bet on it.

I dunno, I think he’s got good taste in dogs.

You’re assuming that the article is accurate in saying Tepper influenced the pick of Bryce. That’s just speculation until Tepper, Fitterer or Reich confirm it.

Thanks for this, I was just going off what I personally saw, but assuming those stats are correct it perfectly illustrates how our receivers were good enough. Not great, but good enough.

Lawd I almost fell out my chair reading someone say Cam was LESS accurate than Bryce…the least accurate QB I maybe have ever seen in my life. Cam had a high throw every now and then but he had good placement and put the ball where it needed to be for the WR to make a play and potential gain more yards. Bryce had a handful of good throws ALL YEAR. Even the short passes were often inaccurate and prevented the WR from trying to get YAC. Most passes over 10-15 yards either sailed 10 yards over the receivers head or otherwise nowhere in the vicinity.

They weren’t. They got NFL open enough. There were FAR more wildly inaccurate passes than drops. Bold: Yes, please go look at Cam’s years with bad OL and no weapons other than Olsen (that’s every single year after Smitty left). Even at the worst point Cam was 100x better than Bryce. One of those years he was MVP, with only the benefit of a mediocre LT rather than an atrocious one being a difference. Still a bad OL. Three of those years we were legit SB contenders. With a terrible HC and the worst OC to ever coordinate in the NFL.

The completely unsubstantiated rumor that Bryce is Tepper’s darling and he made that decision in doing a lot of heavy lifting in your claim.

I think it just requires improvement, not necessarily playoffs. I don’t think we’ve improved a single time since Tepper got the team. Ron was always on his last legs here, sticking around 6 years too long, Rhule treaded water for two and a half years, then Reich was actually WORSE than Rhule somehow, by the look of results on the field. So if there is an actual uptick, I think the leash will be much longer. Even as modest as four wins this year, as long as the offense looks somewhat competent, then six or seven wins the next year, then year three could end with nine wins and no playoffs and it would still be improvement. As long as the team looks to be going in the right direction.

His arm strength isn’t good, but it’s good enough. Probably better than some we’ve had here recently *cough* Teddy two yards *cough* The areas he needs to improve on the most, by far, are accuracy and decision making/processing. And those aren’t limited by his dna limiting his size and strength. He can improve those. He just has to work on it. Once he isn’t one of the worst I’ve ever seen at those areas, then he can take advantage of a hopefully improved OL and pass catching group. But until then a group of Moss, Rice and Gonzalez wouldn’t be of much use here.

Off topic a little, but somewhat relevant. I read earlier that Bengals’ RT Jonah Williams is a free agent this year. Played LT well his first few years then they got a new LT and he shifted to RT and maintained his high level of play. Probably wouldn’t be cheap but if we could get him to play LT, slide Icky in to G that could potentially address a lot of our OL deficiencies in one signing. Would make the offense that Canales wants to run easier to execute (to swing it back on topic heh).

I think scheming has more than a little to do with it. At this point I dunno about TMJ, but his whole career has been in terrible schemes. I wouldn’t blame them if they just cut bait with him though.

I typo’d the title, meant to just say “Burns trade to Baltimore”, not as if it’s happened but rumor of it in the works. Is that bit you pasted from the Bleacher Report article it references? I read the fanrecap article and didn’t see the “we’d love to see” paragraph. edit: nvm, you pasted from the article Steelo linked, not me.

I mean, everything I said pointed out the wording in the article sounded like baseless speculation, so it seems I’m not the one with the reading comprehension issues.

Fanrecap article I dunno how reputable this site is, they reference Bleacher Report but don’t give a link and the wording makes it sound like BR is just spitballing possibilities rather than actually hearing a rumor. The title of the fanrecap article implies there’s actual rumor of it happening. I’m guessing it’s unfounded speculation.

Yea I realized after hitting submit that I forgot a word. Decided eff it, I was still more accurate than Bryce.

He needs to be practicing that S2 some more. And painting a bullseye on the side of a barn so maybe he could hit one. Processing speed and accuracy were by far his worst areas last year, with pocket awareness after them.

Eh, at the time I was in the camp that they made the right decision not trading him. In retrospect, I was wrong. I thought we’d take Stroud and at least be competitive and be ready for playoff aspirations in year two. In reality, those draft pics would have been waaaay more valuable than those 40 qb pressures. Take Burns away and those pressures don’t dissipate, someone else would get some if not most of them. A lot can be done with scheme. Even now, if we can get a first, take it and run. Even the Chiefs’. We can spread that $20-30mil around and use it to improve the team in more areas.

That’s the key difference that makes him better than Richardson. Sure, Tepper hasn’t picked a good hire yet (Richardson hit on one in 20something years: Fox), but at least he isn’t going to fire Morgan and rehire Fitterer. He learns from his mistakes and doesn’t remake them. Unfortunately there’s a lotta mistakes out there for him to make, but hey at least the pool is smaller every time heh edit: also he’s not afraid to admit he was wrong. After waiting too long to fire Rivera and Hurney, he waited less with Rhule (but still too long), he didn’t hesitate when he saw the problems with Reich and his staff.

Icky was good last year. This was his only bad year. Definitely deserves another look under the new staff to see if he can stick at LT before talking about moving in to G.

It’s only been three years. We still have two more to see if he can stay healthy before we would need to pay him a second contract.

Also, lol at the Wilks fanboying. He’s not a good coach. I like the guy, but he was a terrible HC and not a very good DC either. Our defense got worse when he became DC, and I dunno enough about SF to say the same for them but they’re so loaded on defense it would be hard to come in and F it up.

Allen and Lamar are both great QBs and honestly are probably both slightly underrated. The only difference between them imo is you have to have a specific offense for Lamar to work, but when it works it’s incredible. In the playoffs I think it’s harder for these type of offense to be consistent. I’m not sure the problem is Lamar in the playoffs, it’s just that they have to go up against better defenses one after the other and in a league of any given Sunday, it’s more likely someone will have an off day upsetting the balance that offense requires (or an “on day” for the defenses).