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Yeah bad angle for her. I just watched something on this and I didn’t know so maybe someone else didn’t know either… NFL policy these days on this is they don’t hand out any discipline until the legal process is complete. The option mentioned was ‘paid leave’ in the interim. Falcons are likely going to have to pay him but not have him, and he will probably be able to afford his attorneys. -
By SmokinwithWilly · Posted
It isn't about looking bad, it's about proving the person that made the draft pick is right. Do I have definitive proof? No. What i do have are a series of events that when placed in order make no sense unless the purpose is to protect Bryce from being outshone by another QB and benched/cut. 1. Hiring of Reich to build his offense. Darnold is released and Reich gets to pick a shiny new QB to work with. After all, we signed him to a six year contract, so it's fair to assume he would have major influence in that decision. 2. Bryce interviews privately with Tepper, where he wows them with his ability to break down a play over dinner. By all accounts, Bryce is a very likeable, charming guy being interviewed. Even brought up here recently after an interview he did. 3. The sudden emergence of the S2 as the new "it" test to determine QB prowess after it's revealed Purdy, Mr Irrelevant himself, scored high and displaced the 9ers costly 1st round pick, Trey Lance. Bryce scores off the charts, and Stroud's results are "leaked" and he's publicly shamed as an imbecile going into the draft process. 4. Bryce is selected 1st overall, a QB that in no way fits Reich's QB type. Frank becomes disinterested, doesn't appear to put much effort into developing an offense for Bryce, round peg, square hole deal. 5. An obviously unprepared Bryce is named starter, and goes on to have one of the worst rookie seasons in NFL history. The only game he didn't play, Dalton, in Seattle in the rain with Zavala giving up 14 pressures in that game, made the offense look alive, something we hadn't seen from Bryce. Bryce returns, offense goes back to crap. 6. Season 2, new HC, a QB whisperer to fix Bryce. Dalton returns and the only other camp competition is Plummer, who looks like he might actually be the worst QB not named Jimmy Claussen to ever get a number in camp. Bryce named starter again after leading the team yo the 1st overall pick, which was part of the package we traded away to get him. 7. Bryce is benched, Dalton comes in, starts 5 games, less than 100k yards, 7tds 6 ints, and makes it pretty clear he's not the long term answer for anything, not even being a backup. Bryce returns after Dalton's car crash and finishes the season playing better, but still not enough to guarantee he's the future. 8. This past off-season, Dalton gets a 2 year, almost fully guaranteed deal, when there are FA backups available who at least have potential if Bryce gets benched or injured again. One of those backups actually put up better numbers in 5 less games this year than Bryce, in case you were wondering. Then, lo and behold, Plummer is brought back for training camp. The guy so bad people were calling for him to be cut for the hot dog guy, or maybe Terry Bradshaw, the senile version on Fox. Plummer is cut again, shocker, and away we go into 2025. 9. Bryce starts off the year in typical fashion, lays a couple duds, then gets bailed out by Rico running wild for over 500 yards against the 2 worst defenses in the NFL. The entire season is up and down, with one exceptional game against Atlanta followed by a sewer plunge in Seattle. Multiple opportunities to win the division or win the big game when needed. Didn't show up for those. Finally breaks 3k yards for the season on a Standford band prayer. We make the playoffs when Tampa loses, since we couldn't do it ourselves. Bryce has a playoff game highlighted by a few beautiful throws and a final drive that looked like a deer in the headlights. 4 and out, 3 timeouts left unused. Now you could say that's a whole lot of nothing, but I see a whole lot of shielding to keep a bottom tier performing QB shielded from any real competition in the QB room. And I was right about Dalton. One game when Bryce was injured, and he looked worse than done. Phillip Rivers played better after being on his couch for 3 years. And let's not forget, Bryce also refuses to do anything about his footwork which is constantly being brought up. He says it's fine. So why did they pick up the 5th year? Who knows. I still say they should have played him on the final year of his contract as a one year prove it deal. But when you look at everything and the way it's transpired, I think it's pretty easy to see that someone at the top has been out to prove he made the right choice and that is David Tepper. So in response to the original question i commented on, what has Bryce done to guarantee the starting spot to the point of not even putting a viable backup at the number 2 spot? Not a damn thing -
I held a similar opinion, ie he was gonna play how he wanted to play. So that’s the offense you end up with. Even if you would rather take a more traditional approach it would hard because, he was going to play how he wanted to play. I thought he saw himself as the number one weapon. Did I want a more diverse attack with more pocket passes and less running and option type plays? Yep. Chudzinski’s 2nd year here I thought he was getting too cute and chasing a HC job, which he got, but I would like to have seen him committed to running an offense he built around Cam. I think we missed out on that type of opportunity, getting Shula. But one thing about him, Ron didn’t have to worry about losing his OC every couple of years to a HC job. Lol.
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