SmokinwithWilly

The final drive was his moment. Dave was calling the plays, but Bryce, at the line, with 3 time outs, needing 30 yards with 40 seconds left, has to read the field, see what the defense is giving him, and adjust the play call if necessary. The middle of the field was wide open. We didn't have to get it all in 1 chunk. Your QB has to be able to do that. If he can't, he shouldn't be behind center. That's what I hang on Bryce. His inability to recognize the defense in the moment, adjust the play at the line to take what's given, and use our 3 timeouts to get us in field goal range instead of going 0-4, trying to get it all in one big play when that's what the defense was guarding against.

I had a serious knee injury that stretched ligaments and tendons but no tears miraculously. 30 years later it still isn't right and I'm a bigger guy. I've read about that surgery, damn, and I don't know how you intentionally keep that much weight on your body and trust that thing to hold up under the load of a full NFL season. It took years for me to trust mine and I still don't 100%, especially laterally.

My 1st thought was hospital ball. If he caught it his neck was getting stretched farther than Drew Brees’

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Defense is the reason we were in that game up until going prevent on the last drive. 2 4th down failures, one gave them a short field that they scored on quickly. One of the best WRs in football, Adams who ain't exactly half bad himself, and a TE with 9 TD carches on the season. Horn gets concussed. If it wasn't for a blocked punt and short field, we wouldn't have been up to lose the lead to begin with. Sometimes you need more than 31. You can't lay everything at the defenses feet, especially when that defense has overachieved given what they had to work with. Putting the game on their shoulders in the biggest moments is what franchise QBs do.

And no one on his team goes to his birthday party.

We played not to lose instead of playing to win the last 3 minutes of the game. That's what it came down to.

We can't spend anymore on the oline. Icky's injury definitely going to impact his contract offer.

Looks like his knee buckled backing up. Hard to see exactly

Oh look. More Puka

Might as well have not even had Scott on the field guarding Nakua.

That's a classic tush push situation we can't run.

I am the same way I just try to be understanding of what's going on inside my head or I end up losing too many employees. I've made that mistake before and lost several in a short time frame and it ended up costing me a lot more money to train new ones than just to check myself a little.

Ive found sometimes its harder to evaluate people in your exact area of expertise. I struggle with it myself at times. It's hard to be objective because thought processes aren't the same trying to get to the same place. I tend to be a little more lenient than I should because I know they're not me and can't be.

Im still trying to figure out how after Dalton's abysmal 2024 performance, Dan looked at all the FA QBs available and said yep, that's the best option available if Bryce gets hurt and can't go. Because that should be the logic. Not this guy isn't a threat to take the starting spot. I have a hard time believing that Dan, as a MLB that spent hours a day every season in the film studying all different caliber of offenses and QBs made that decision without some outside influence. Outside of everything else he's done as GM, that makes the least amount of sense.