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Bryce had three drives that mattered in that game.  The first two which resulted in turnovers and made it a multi score deficit and the last drive which was as ugly and as incompetent as it could be.  Everything in between was basic soft strategic concession by the Cardinals.  They almost played too loose and flirted with concern, so they locked in one last time and made BY9 look like a bum despite multiple friendly whistles.  

I was never onboard with Morgan to begin with.  The dude always seemed a hammer short of a full tool bag, maybe too many concussions.  He was a Fitterer hold over and I thought he should have been gone when Fitts went.  He literally made it to NFL GM with no credentials to speak of other than a playing career.  Shorts stints of personnel management for the Seahawks and Bills, neither organization choosing promotion or retention.  I believe Morgan was added as a friendly face to sooth a fanbase that was growing to hate Tepper and probably retained for the same reason.  Morgan never coached, had minimal front office experience and the GM he "assisted" was deservedly fired.  From what I can find online he received a BA in Liberal Arts from Miami so that isn't exactly a qualification either.  

4 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

5 wins? With Bryce at QB, this defense, and already down two starting OL?

Man, I don't think we can beat anybody in the league unless they hand us the game.

The refs tried their damndest to hand us the Arizona game.

It's worth consideration that likely every single team has us circled as a win.

They will um look at the um tape and um um you know just get back to um work.  We just gotta um be better and um protect the um ball.

Bryce now has a 6-26 record.  What else is there to discuss really?

7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

 

 

How does Bryce have time to post during the game?

Arizona could be his last game realistically.  Another multi-turnover loss is going to be tough to keep trotting him out.  Dave made the move to protect the locker room last year.  Seeing the videos of BY9 isolating from the team on the field and bench in TV breaks has those some vibes.  Watch his teammates, their attitude towards Bryce is the tell.

1 minute ago, jb2288 said:

Bryce sucked but no way he only had 1 pressure yesterday 

I didn't create the stats or the qualifications for a pressure.  Pressure can certainly be subjective to the viewer as well.  Bryce is real good at making his own pressure because he cannot step up in the pocket due to vision issues.  So it gets crowded and he has to break contain, the defender peals off the block and it looks like pressure but it isn't.  I'd submit a pressure is counted when the pocket collapses, not shifts forward, but collapses.  I'd have to rewatch the game with only that in mind to determine my own feelings.  The official statistic is 1 pressure though.

Well lets put some statistics to Year 3 Week 1.

Rating 49 (30th of 30)
Yards 154 (25th of 30)
Completion 51.4% (28th of 30)
Turnovers 3 (30th of 30 and really was 4)
Average per attempt 2.4 (29th of 30)


QB SUPPORT METRICS
Sacked 1 (Tied for 2nd least)
Pressured 1 (Tied for 2nd least)
Rushing 113 (12th of 30) (With no passing support)
Rushing avg 4.5 (11th of 30)
Penalties 4 for 35 (Tied for 2nd fewest)

4 minutes ago, Jay Roosevelt said:

I mean most of these press conferences by losing coaches sound the same. They made more plays, missed opportunities, gotta get off the field on 3rd down, etc.

Yeah no doubt, the eery part is it could almost be the same game.  Starts off talking about three turnovers and it tracks pretty close as it goes on.

1 minute ago, OnlyPantherFaninMaine said:

I’m not sure Dave is on the hot seat. I think Bryce has the shorter leash. Dave nor Morgan drafted Bryce. Think they will get a shot to draft their own QB and let the chips fall where they may from there. I still think Canales has a chance to be a successful coach here, but there are going to be a lot of bumps and growing pains along the way. Evero and Bryce will be shown the door before Canales. 

I've never liked this carousel.  GM/Coach/QB carousel that is.  When you cycle through them there's always a scapegoat.  We've had 3 GMs, 7 Head coaches (including interims), and 9 different quarterbacks (starting) since Tepper bought the team.  By and large this has been rotational with coaches inheriting quarterbacks, or GMs inheriting coaches or even worse GMs not picking their coaches.  It's just terrible organizational hierarchy all the time, very dysfunctional.

Hire your GM, let him hire his coach and get the players that coach says he need for his vision.  Create top down accountability.  Cannales was hired to make Bryce look like a good draft pick, if he can't do that then he's failed at the thing he had to have sold himself on.  

Morgan was a head scratcher from day one.  A hold over from the Fitterer mistakes, certainly no history of success as an executive.  Has always felt like a yes man for Tepper or a blindfolded visions of going young everywhere and letting them learn on the job.  Just terrible, terrible organizational vision in a league being dominated by real professionals.

We weren't prepared to play.  I think we have a false sense of confidence based on practicing against our own defense (and vice versa).  Putting in no preseason work and shitting the bed out of the gate again, Cannales acting bewildered about how different the team looked against his expectations.  The real serious issue may be that we have coaches with no perception until they get their teeth kicked in by a 4 win team with a new coaching staff.

Watch a few minutes of this again and imagine he's talking about today's game.  It's eery.

I took a lot of poo for this post.  
 

2 minutes ago, SmittysLawnGuy said:

Coach in presser: Yeah I saw a lot of positives today. We just have to get the fundamentals down and try to get a little better each day. Yeah I'm excited.

 

We have to become who we're going to become.

What are they worried about?  We already scored our 3 points, lightning doesn't strike the same place twice.

Who approved that photo of BY9, he looks like he doesn't want to be on the poster.

Thank you for the summary!

It’s about the same as Bryce.  Jury is out but he deserves another year.  The team improved steadily.

Choose Love on the goal post, hahaha good placement.  Bryce really shut out the noise and played much better after returning to the lineup.  His clutch factor at the end of games was fantastic.  We'd be at least two games better in the win department if the D could ever hold.

There is cause for optimism.

Love the way the offense is playing today.  This team has improved all year despite injuries.  

On 12/30/2024 at 11:19 PM, flagfootballcoach28 said:

Seeing Rickey Pearsall have a breakout games makes me even more pissed off about the Legette pick. We literally picked the worst WR of the first two drafts minus Polk. Dude is more concerned about eating road kill than he is hitting the jug machine. 

Looking back at this thread, there was a lot of kool aid being chugged.  I never liked this draft.