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I'ma tell you the truth. I'm kinda cheap when it comes to certain things. Before Amazon Prime took over, I used to watch Thursday night games on my cell via Yahoo. It wasn't ideal, but I could see the game. BTW, they only allowed a connection via cellular, but Cricket worked like a champ.

It is better, but it's not going to directly help you see Sunday Ticket. I have Cricket (AT&T), and I doubt I'll use Verizon (or any of its MVNOs) ever again. Their network is simply just too congested in my experience. This may make it worse.

It's not realistic, but you have a point. You probably need to trade one if this season goes as the last two.

I love my Panthers, but not enough to forego the beach this week.

Bryce likes to eat football. That's his thing. As for WRs, he not only has Mingo, but TMJ as well. Moreover, I wouldn't discount Tremble just yet. Along with the other guys, he should have enough to quell his appetite for all things football his rookie year (and hopefully beyond).

Look at their average YPC. Just saying. Also look at the average YPR Chuba didn't have have the production, but he also didn't have the touches. He's quietly productive though. He was also the best FA RB this year, still young and primed for success

I won't get excited until I see him legitimately running with the big dogs. The highlights don't do anything for me to be honest. He's looking a little pedestrian among so-so competition. Perhaps it's a function of the offense, but they seemed to run him around the edge way too much, and it looks like to me that he just doesn't have that type of speed, or quickness in the flat. I see him as a PS guy at this point. I don't know who he'd beat out. We can just pull one of the TEs to play H-back or fullback when necessary.

In the Triangle, the only place that I see with longer lines than BoJangles is Chic-Fil-A. If I'm buying fried chicken, I ain't going to KFC, and I ain't going to Smithfield's Chicken & Barbecue; I'm going to BoJangles. Granted, I haven't had Popeyes. Church's Chicken was only OK when I was broke. BoJangles all the way!

Kasay was and will always be an obvious contributing factor in the loss, but he wasn't the only one. That's just the way it is. He was still a great kicker though, and that's what I remember him for.

The Bosa talk is just talk. People use Bosa because he is the best (and the fact that both were drafted in 2019). Figuring out where Burns falls in comparison is the trick. I'd say it's it's 8th, as commensurate with his production, but we're going to have to adjust for his age and the still mouthwatering pie in the sky (i.e. his potential), and the lack of proven talent. Mind you, I'm personally skeptical of basing decisions on pie in the sky...I'd probably offer him 6th or 7th and hold the line at 5th best contract in the league, and hope like hell that his game takes that leap. We're between a rock and a hard place. Too bad the Rams didn't have a 2023 first. I think that would've gotten that deal done.

I can't see Bryce playing more than a series or three. I believe a half is too much for meaningless preseason games. There's too much to lose (no pun intended). Dalton is a seasoned pro. Corral should get most of the work.

And if we aren't careful, it will be a fascist, theocratic, plutocratic autocracy.

I know, right. There's a bit of revisionist history going on in this thread. I remember when the OP was leaning towards Stroud. He came around though. He never jumped all-in on the Young hate-train though. I will give him that.

Hey, I'd love Diggs. I don't care about his attitude (most receivers worth a damn are divas), and I think that his 6th highest salary (~3½ mil more than DJ Moore) is in line with other true ones in the league. But, I do think that we could use our cap a little more efficiently---at the very least for more suspect position groups. Moreover, even if we don't spend another dime of our cap, there is great value in rolling over cap into next season, particularly since we don't have a first round pick.

I predict our passing offense will be closer to top 5 than bottom 5. TMJ is a potential beast! Mingo is a potential beast! Chark is a potential beast! Thielen "is not as good as [he] once was, but [he's] as good once as [he] ever was." (Shout-out to Toby Keith). Hurst has shown to be solid, and Tremble's potential is largely untapped. Bryce is exactly the guy to unlock the beastly potential in every one of them. Yeah, I may have the process blue-colored glasses on, but I believe what I believe and I know what I know... One thing that people should remember this season and beyond: there is no Rhule requiring any receiver to suck!

AI will be making all the calls in a few years...

We all knew this was coming from everything we've been hearing about Young for months, and particularly the last month. Now, when the QB2 is announced later this year, it will be way more surprising to some than this.

Rhule was so awful. Honestly, we probably should've taken Teddy's criticism of Rhule's lack of coaching without the grain of salt. There was another player that publicly gave us an idea that they weren't being properly coached? I just can't remember who it was. Now Tremble. In some respects, we probably need to legitimately give these younger guys a mulligan. We're just thinking that they're no good, but how can we genuinely draw such conclusions in light of Rhule's profound incompetence? We must take our own feelings about them with a grain of salt; Such is the ineptitude of Rhule's coaching at the professional level. It is not so far out to think that we must give everyone a clean slate.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but...knowing the history of this team, I am not ready to make any definitive declarations this early. Now, I don't believe the Bears will be getting a high pick (which is definitely a plus---a moral victory, even if it may appear somewhat petty from one perspective, but at the end of the day it all speaks to a competitive advantage...or disadvantage). Now, as for the "right staff," I very much think that still remains to be seen. I think it's easy to fall in love with Frank Reich because he generally says all the right things. It's amazing, right? My problem is that the reality is that he made some very questionable in-game decisions particularly in the postseason. I guess for me, I'm skeptical, but hopeful. I'll keep an open mind until I see a pattern of screwups. I'm thinking that Young will be able to cover over a lot of deficiencies if it comes to that (he'll, he literally already caught an OTA script error). And speaking in reference to Young, I do believe that the staff is absolutely the "right staff" in terms of his development. There seems to be some great support for QBs (Reich being one of them), and I am eager to see the results.

As for our receiving corps, I think that was more of a bigger question mark. We were taking a real chance (mainly on TMJ). We didn't know if we'd be able to secure Thielen or Chark. It seemed like Chark waited forever to make up his mind. It took Thielen a couple of minutes also. But it's obvious that Mingo must have been on their minds as well. It just turns out that we were able to provide Young with some pretty apt pass catchers, including Hurst who was somewhat of a surprise, but perhaps not as big of a surprise as Boobie (who was arguably the best free agent RB this off-season).

That's about it. I don't know if we won or lost the trade, but at this point I can say that Young is a different cat, and super compelling as a QB prospect. I suspect that he could be generational in every aspect of the word. I mean, dude caught an incorrect play on the play script as a rookie QB during his first few practices. What other young guy would've done that? The list is super short, I assure you. Thanks for bringing the cap space up. It's one of the first things that I thought about. I'm close to 100 percent sure that it was taken into account before we made the trade. I didn't get but so far in the thread, but another part of the calculus I'm sure was the presence of Matt Corral. Between him, the relatively massive cap space (relatively now), and the penchant for Fitterer to be able to manipulate and master the curves and twists of the draft---or at least the belief that he can---were all taken into account when deciding to trade. I believe that all these things, as well as Bryce Young himself made the reward well worth the risk. We will win, or even if we lose, the risk factors will be mitigated. But, I love the position that we're in. On an off note, I probably wouldn't feel as secure or as good had we drafted anyone else but Young. I always said that if we traded up to one it would be for him, and I said it for a reason.

I mean, are they really? Don't confuse use with being more versatile. They've had more opportunities out of necessity. But when you look at the entire context, as well as compare the average production, Hubbard is really right in there with them. It's not like any of the guys you mentioned have displayed appreciably more versatility than Hubbard is what I'm saying. Plus, our O-line was pretty horrible in 2021 in reference to the run game.

And the lack of appreciation for him continues...

It speaks to the absurdity of some, especially when they just gloss over information that directly proves their entire thesis is incorrect. They're attempting to write short stories, but their tall tales just make them look smaller than the kid they lambaste.