stratocatter

Yeah there have been a few low points. 1900-1194 was pretty low with no team. 2001 was rough, 2010 was rough. We are a losing franchise a lot of years have had troubles that were very difficult, I was mostly going by roster and W-L. And hope level. None of it saw 6 years pass and still stuck in the mud and this time with your future mortgaged for what so far looks like average, best case and being nice.

Reich making his imprint... Making a great first depression.

2026-2030 firsts for whoever Tepper chooses to make it work for the last one he liked. edit: if David Tepper really had nothing to do with the Young trade and pick plan, it is time to go ahead and let him do the picking. He should fire Fitterer and make himself GM.

Yeah, he doesn’t look hurt and as anyone who watched the game could see, Dalton is night and day better, it isn’t close. Young managed to make Dalton look really good. Then you look over at CJ Stroud’s performance and realize that every game Young starts he looks worse and SO much worse by comparison, they need to hide that from people and hope they can figure something out to help the youngster. 0-3 these vets are gonna get really upset if they don’t put the best players on the field. So I don’t know how this works out.

I think Tepper wanted everything that has been done, done. So who does he fire for that? Gives people cover. I think some scout or strength coach gets fired no one big they are all hand picked.

Well, I invite people to watch CJ Stroud at work. I just did. If you do that, and come back blaming our failure on everything but the QB play, You to go to ignore. But if you actually do watch the game, you won’t come back talking like that. Unless you are a complete idiot. Bryce might be able to distribute the ball to some players and with a defense win some games doing it, at some point in the future, but he will never be that. edit: if you put that Houston QB I watched on this team, we are in a different, much better place.

That was the move, and still could have been with Dalton. I wanted anything but that trade up. Anything.

The thing I least understand is what was he protecting in preseason? I expected a newly designed fun offense with a ton of motion, a point guard in the center of it distributing the ball. That’s pretty much what we were promised. I have not seen anything that is remotely interesting. I do think the qb is giving up on plays, panicking I think. Jet out of that pocket, throw it ob or get tackled. So maybe that is hiding this great offense they have designed but I really think it is all a bunch of emperor’s new clothes and there is no new design of anything.

You don't cut him in this situation (there is no one better or as good, it would hurt the team probably) if he is trying and being a good teammate. If he is being a bad teammate, has an attitude, you cut the hell out of him even if you have to make Dalton play his position.

Ever since Tepper signed the papers, this has been going downhill every year. Little worse, each season. The ONLY time this team was any fun to watch, for me, since Tepper came in was with Wilks coaching it.

I think Ekwanu has some kind of hearing problem. The missing of play calls, all the false starts, makes me think he needs his hearing checked.

Pretty low to me, after the last 6 years. Tepper has turned this into an expansion team.

Without him going too, it is pointless.

I mean, his middle names alone give it up: David Hoover Dyson Tepper.

Stroud clearly has the arm.

I'll go do something I enjoy that I used to always skip to watch the Panthers game, and watch a streamed replay later. I try to avoid the scoreboards but I'll watch even If I know the final.

I think yes he for sure got the pick he wanted made, made. Starts with the coach interviews, where he found who would and who might not be in alignment with his preferred path.

Well, we’re getting into the part of the year where the rubber meets the road. The preseason is over, the kinks are supposed to be worked out. They have had, under the old system, 4 preseason games and the opener. 5 games. No one ever really know what to think of teams after the opener. Division winners sometimes lose big week one. The true identity of a team emerges in the next few weeks. In our case, so far, the team looks really bad offensively and decent defensively but lost key players. Overall, based on the little we have to go on I believe they fall short of last year’s team. Consider it entertainment, because I don’t know what else we are going to get out of it. Dalton, this week. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. That is sort of entertaining.

Damn, that is not gonna help his OROY chances one bit.

It is more like an expansion team if you think about it.

I am gonna say Gettleman was the worst simply because I feel like fewer of his mistakes were because of doing what his boss told him to do. They were his mistakes. These others… they listen to the bosses more. Pretty sure. I went with Hurney because no way I could choose Fitterer over him. It is q moot question anyway, they left D) none of the above, off the poll.

That is a marketing win right there. The Oakland Panthers. In that city.

See this is fishy. They wouldn’t show anything in preseason, to keep people in the dark about all this great stuff they had up their sleeves. edit: but there is nothing up there going by the first two games. So what were they protecting? Why claim that? Etc…

Why do you insist on using the word “vitriol” to characterize questioning arm strength, athleticism, you know… football things? Are people calling him a shrimp? A midget? On here ridiculing him for his haircut or something? That is vitriolic, I am not seeing any of that. And really if it is here it is so isolated you could personally police it as opposed to lumping every person with skepticism or negativity concerning the team’s future with this player, in with simple name callers. I got vitriol for people who want to make me expressing my opinions about football in a civil way, personal. I admit that. No call for it.

What do y’all reckon Tepper’s life expectancy is. BigKat you are gonna be like the 107 year old Red Sox or Cubs fan by the time they win something.