RevJ

Not sure it matters. If we get a good QB, Canales will take the ball out of his hands so he can run some play the other team doesn't expect and the announcers and media will talk about how brilliant he is. Rico was virtually unstoppable until Canales shut him down. I can see it now. We'll have a QB who is 19 for 20 and near a perfect passer rating and Canales will run him on a QB sneak on 3rd and 18. Soo tired of Canales and the front office trying to win smartest people in the room award when they could just do what the situation calls for.

Well we lost those decent players but our brilliant front office replaced them - with Mingo, and Jonathan Brooks and DJ Johnson. In other words, it's not just losing great players, we are really bad at identifying talent to replace them. When we do get some talent, our staff has trick plays to break the opponent's minds and uses the least likely player to sideline our talent. The other team doesn't have to take our stars out of the game - we do it for them.

The "trick play" at the one mirrors our continued belief that we can outsmart people. It's why we draft injured RB and someone like DJ Johnson while every other team scratches their heads. Not to mention the "steal" of a Long Snapper while skipping a pro bowl type guard. Hedge fund managers get rich by taking risks, zigging when people think they should zag. Football players and coaches see the ball on the 1 yard line with a RB averaging 6 yards a carry and know what to do. But we'd rather be brighter than everyone else. We might win a chess title but the football people will just keep punching us in the mouth.

It would be like playing with Russian nesting dolls, but in reverse. We'd keep collecting the next size up until we had an average size QB by 2057.

I do think the ball he threw to Taylor for the INT was a tight spiral that hit him perfectly in stride -I bet the Saints would confirm that he threw that one great.

I think we go on a losing streak until last few games, get a bit hot, but not enough to get into playoffs. The worst part will be Bryce putting together a few good games leading to a decision that he might still be our future.

Probably need to acknowledge that both OL and DL got punched in the mouth today. The delay blitzes into line gaps should have been stopped at some point but the staff and players had no answers. The Saints came in with confidence and did not let up. We acted like it wasn't fair that they wouldn't let us win.

Coaches will have strengths and weaknesses but Rivera was as good a man as we've had in the HC position. Canales has some positives but I suspect he gives out participation trophies from time to time. Like it or not, the team seems to have taken on his personality, I wanted Harbaugh or Quinn but honestly don't think Tepper will bring in a bigger dog than he thinks he is.

Game plan? We only have one plan - run for miles and hope opponent doesn't notice our QB can't beat them by air. Sloppy all around. Horn looking like he's DUI trying to stay with receiver. OL allowing Saints free rush and early access to our RB. And again, a bucketful of mental errors, which has soured most of us on Canales for most of the season.

Chuba can't get to the sticks when only 2 yards are needed??

Refs doing all they can to help us - wonder if any of them can throw more than 10 yards.

I'll repeat - to beat Panthers stack the box and dare Boy Wonder to throw it more than 5 yards

I think the D held them to 6 - Evero allowed the other 7 by playing prevent

Props to Canales - choosing the 4th Qtr wind is the first time I can recall him thinking strategically.

There Defense looks just like ours except 20 yards closer to LOS

Be nice to have the two red zone flubs back.

Canales will turn the playcalling over to Evero and we'll kneel down 5 times (after an illegal formation penalty ) to be sure GB doesn't have too much to overcome to win the game

Did he have control when ball broke the plane?

Or go for 2 and get the lead. Evero will have the D way back in the end zone.

Maybe we could put the DB's behind the end zone line to be sure GB has plenty of room

Evero will never learn that prevent just prevents us from winning.

How can we run coverage that soft on 4th and 4??

Another mental error - Sanders lining up wrong. Do we have any coaches at the actual game?

Please play for another score vs not to lose the game.

M Jackson couldn't decide whether to fair catch or try a return