MechaZain

He's entertaining. Him and Shannon can be pretty hilarious when they start cutting up. What's nice is they all seem to be having more fun now without Skip making things awkward with his racist dogwhistling. It's more like the NBA on TNT crew now which fits First Take better than treating it like serious analysis.

The biggest thing I can give them so far is getting Kemba back as coach. I think that's going to do more for team culture and Melo especially than people realize. It's like if Panthers had Luke or Cam in the locker room right now.

Same. I need a superstar performance at this point to get over the long list of negatives with Bryce. If "not bad" is his ceiling now he's basically a worse version of Teddy Bridgewater.

If he wasn’t offered at least what they gave Bridgewater they fugged up. Even if he really was toast I would have taken zombie Cam over the rotating circus we’ve had since, and frankly he had earned the benefit of doubt.

Gave up on Cam too early.

that means there’s probably a hall of fame QB in next years class the way “expert opinions” have been going

pay him

No need to rush it. It’ll be obvious when starting Dalton’s no longer doing us any favors. Even with that boneheaded pick he’s still playing at a much higher level than Bryce.

I find this stuff entertaining as long as you don’t take it too seriously. It’s barbershop talk and jokes. That said I don’t think Cam is a good fit for the same reason him and Shannon wouldn’t have worked. Cam is always The Main Character. Amusing but even when it’s just him interviewing someone he has a hard time taking a backseat to his guest. A debate format where has to play off of others and can’t always be the center of attention is not going to be easy for him.

Tepper rebuilding the bridge the organization burned with Steve Smith was a good thing

Evero staying this season going down as an all-time bag fumble

Stroud, Darnold. We’re truly the joke of the league.

2 minute drill got exposed though. Need to work on that.

Like Mingo didn’t have a critical drop at the end of the game…

Only repping your team when they're winning is lame

If they were both on rookie contracts sure

High unlikely that 36 year old Andy Dalton stays healthy all year. There will be one last opportunity for Bryce to prove himself and his fabled work ethic and I think seeing that out is worth more than a fourth rounder, even if it means we get nothing for him. In the meantime we should sign a capable backup and it's on Bryce to beat him for the #2 spot outright. Is he a buzzkill to keep around? Maybe, but this is where the soft spoken personality helps him. If he's just hanging out he'll fade into the background. If he shows effort to save his career that will reflect positively on his teammates. A third round pick I'd say would be worth cutting our losses now.

The hee hee in the back for Mike Jackson lol

Minshew on a bad day doing better than a lot of guys we've had under center

would rather the team be watchable

By and large Bryce defenders haven’t watched him play since maybe college

Finally

Sad because his maturity was the one thing we thought we could count on. He don't wanna be great.

It was the right move just the wrong pick