CPcavedweller

It's still our 1's playing their 2's and 3's on defense. So, like you said, it's preseason. Don't get too excited.

I suppose we should with ours 1's facing their 2's and 3's. But I digress.

So our receivers are Theilen and then a huge gap?

I typed that as it happened and it wasn't obvious at first. Regardless, my point about AR stands. My point about receivers also stands.

At this point, I'm just waiting to see Cam Peoples.

Dude, where are you? It's August. It's hot. It's almost always unbearably hot in the south in August. Though if it were two days earlier or two days later you'd have some nice 78 degree weather right now which would be unseasonably cool for August.

Okay.... Now he's throwing the ball 10 yards out of bounds. I can't tell if that was on purpose or not. But the difference in watching Bryce and Richardson is pretty obvious to me. Richardson lifts everyone around him just by being 6'4, 250 lbs, who runs a 4.4 40. The type of transcendent physical talent you trade away 1st round picks for. Oh well. Maybe we will get some actual receivers in here who can catch the ball.

Great run blocking tackle, not so hot pass blocking. Bryce cannot get the ball moved down field either.

TWO WEEKS? Bryce is fine. He played with better receivers at Alabama than we have now. However, I will say, if Reich's plan is to throw the ball 40 times a game, we are screwed.

We are down to Derek Wright running with the ones. LOL...

Dude, Bryce out here throwing balls in the dirt. WTF /sarcasm

Like the space between your hip and your ribs. Probably got the wind knocked out of him.

Hung him out? He ran into that, like 8 or so yards...

Thought it was his head. So broken ribs, out four weeks, concussion, out two, probably. Welp, this is shaping up to be a whale of a season.

It. Isn't. Negative. To. Say. We. Made. The. Wrong. Pick. In fact, it's very possible that it's true. I'd give it a 50/50 shot. The recent history of trading up for a QB doesn't really affect us but it could be a sign that the economics of a trade up into the Top 3 picks is too damaging downstream to allow a team to build.

It's not a stretch. It's just not going to happen. Tepper is too involved in Front Office and roster decisions, in my opinion. Then you have the economics of the situation. Then you have the fact that Corral just hasn't had the reps. I'd guess that Bryce has already had more reps in one off-season than Corral got in two. That said, you keep him as a third unless you're keeping five running backs, which judging by Sander's injury history, I'd say is a good idea.

We beat the Detroit Lions last year with a punishing running game and a road grading offensive line. We had the Bucs on the ropes. The only reason we even went .500 to close the season was because Wilks made a concerted decision to protect the offensive line and run the football using D'Onta Foreman and pass off of the play action opportunities that created. So yes, call me old fashioned but when you have lemons, you make lemonade. Our offensive line isn't built to drop back 40 times a game or pass protect from the shotgun 60% of the time like the Cardinals have been doing with Kyler. Perhaps you don't remember but our offensive line was a "strong point" coming into the season because of what we saw last year. What no one, including the pundits, took into account was that we went from a true West Coast offense to what effectively was a Power I situation mid-season which made the offensive line seem much better than it was at pass protection. Now we go back to a pass heavy West Coast look and we get the same poo we saw early on in 2022. In effect, we have lemons but need to make chili. Sure, you want it a little spicy, but you ain't got the ingredients.

Well the most recent high profile trade up for a QB has failed now that Trey Lance is likely gone. Time will tell if we are in the same boat three years from now. May as well hold onto Corral and see what he can become. Imagine if the Packers had offloaded Jordan Love when he looked like hot garbage his first two off-seasons. Where would they be? Purgatory. Now, to my untrained eye, they look like a darkhorse to win the NFC North.

Pairing Hurst with a guy like Washington, to go along with Charbonnet at running back and his college teammate in DTR (5th round pick btw), at QB behind a road grading offensive line would've been nasty. Add in a guy like Mingo who should, with his size, be a blocking god and you'd have one hell of a running football team. But, Tepper wants to throw the ball. Too bad we don't have the team to do that right now.

Why do they need to be locked? Any criticism of Bryce gets you a one week ban. Now you can't even criticize the decision to trade up in the first place? Cheese and rice man, what a time to be alive.

I think we should've traded down and drafted guys like Zach Charbonnet, O'Cyrus Torrance, and Dorian Thompson-Robinson. But what do I know?

I was told that this was blasphemy just a month ago.

I guess time will tell, won't it? It isn't "negative" to suggest that we made the wrong pick. Hell, history would say that we made the wrong decision to trade up for a QB as that has not really worked out at all in the past decade. To me, this is like all of the teams that passed on Josh Allen. Richardson will make a lot of this forum believers by the end of the year. I can't say the same about Bryce and it may not even be because Bryce is that bad but rather because Richardson's raw physical ability will open up the entire offense he plays within.

Bro, have you not watched Josh Allen? He's literally a better version of Cam Newton.

As far as Ickey is concerned, I think we need to understand the context within which our line looked good. When Rhule was fired and Wilkes came in with a plan to run the ball, and throw off of play action, our line magically got better. We protected them. Now this new staff is asking them to do what Rhule was asking them to do which is pass black for 2 to 5 seconds two of every three snaps, and the result is the same. I don't think we have the personnel to run the Rams West Coast style offense and would be much better suited to running something like the 49er's run to, if nothing else, protect our offensive line. They can be a Top 10 unit when running.