rayzor

thanks for posting all this @Icege

same here. i'm really excited about him.

it does seem like we've been throwing darts drunk and blindfolded. only consolation i have is that tepper keeps throwing. hopefully he's closer to hitting it right this year. i just know i'm anxious to see what it looks like.

yeah, bryce is going to have to be exactly what he was hoped to be when he was drafted for that to not be true...the super processor or whatever that was. the guy is going to really have to show up in a big way. my confidence isn't really that high.

when you don't win, game day isn't fun. nobody is happy. it's not rocket surgery. start winning games and most people will be happy. some will never be happy. it's their mission in life to be miserable and broadcast that misery to everyone on the regular. but for the most part, winning cures the blues.

he didn't say he hadn't read it. he said he needs to dive into it more. the guy is a rookie. he's figuring it all out and he will. he won't settle for how he is now. he's committed to getting better. that's the only real take away there is from this.

my...aren't you the tough guy.

Title should have been 'From the Dumpster Fire to the Trailer Fridge'

got to be right sometime.

in our situation, it's not just idzik, but canales who is developing the scheme. between the two of them they should be able to get something pretty respectable out there. of course what is considered respectable is pretty subjective.

yet it's what needs to be done to one degree or another any time you have a QB lacking in professional experience. OC has to build an offense around what the QB can and can't do well and it will probably look pretty vanilla until they get it figured out (providing they can, which could either be a player issue or coaching issue that is the deciding factor).

And oh yeah.....jets beat the packers in the Superbowl.

Jets winning the Superbowl.

Kept this iteration of you around long enough. Bye. See you in the next account....which, just a heads up, I'll go ahead and ban it too.

7 or 8 wins. Most come the first half of the season.

i'd just like to say that winning a superbowl is an anomaly for any QB not named Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes. there is no QB prototype that consistently wins championships. QB doesn't win championships. Winner goes to teams that can do their damn job and that's usually teams that are coached better.

true. there was nothing special really in any regard with eli, but they won with him.

but he should just be able to do it just managing the offense. i know the concept of a game managing QB isn't what we want these days, but that's really all you need if you can get all the other pieces in place and coach and game call effectively. we want a superman. if things are done right, we don't need one. i would like for us to be able to win without one.

true. you have to have someone set the tone and i think that's what jake and cam both did. the teams matched their personalities because that was the culture that they brought in. i don't know that bryce has that kind of spirit...i mean he might, but for me that's probably been the biggest issue, he just doesn't have this dominant personality. it would be great if he did, but he might not need to. what we saw in jake and cam, we might have in canales, and i think that's where things like what okung is saying is good news. looks like canales is a cultural tone setter like cam and jake were. i think we like to see the QB be that guy, but he shouldn't have to be. that actually should be the coach.

i've got a burgundy 2007 town and country that my kids call the kidney bean. i had to staple the celling back up. it's just a reliable and comfortable ride for me. i keep thinking that i need to upgrade to a newer minivan, but i've just always been a 'drive it till it dies' guy. even when i get a newer minivan, i doubt i get one that is newer than 10 years old. minivans for life.

i don't mean lower expectations of bryce, i mean lower expectation of what the QB SHOULD have to be doing. Are there QBs who carry the team? yes. How many of the starting QBs in the league can do that? Is that the standard? If it is, is that a realistic one?

misconception of what the QB should be. no QB, especially a young/rookie QB, should be tasked with having to carry the team. you build the team so that the QB can just be a manager. that's the ideal and should be the standard. you build a team right and the QB should only ever be just one of 11. cam fuggin spoiled us. he was a unicorn. we're not going to be getting a QB like that again. we need to all lower our expectations.

it's those little moments that matter.

too easy to jump on the whole "panthers just fug everything up" because it doesn't require any thinking. never take time to take a step back and think critically. just jump on the "panthers suck" wagon and enjoy the ride.

why the hell would we do that around here? much easier to just jump on the "we just do dumb poo and everything we do and every decision we make is born out of suck." limited brain power involved, which kind of suits a lot of people in here.