SmokinwithWilly

Go watch the final of last years 4 nations tournament. Probably the greatest game i have ever watched from start to finish across all sports.

Not being able to run a QB sneak is a problem and a major issue. Certain plays have to be in the play book. An NFL offense can't survive without them.

2-0 vs Carolina. The only record that matters right now.

Water is wet

Canales is a huge fuging problem and he cannot be OC and HC. He needs to be forced to let someone else play call next year.

Canales did what Canales does. He sucked. The only thing he's learned is absolutely nothing.

Sharknado has a whole damn series.

And this is why having a quality QB2 matters. Minshew isn't great but he isn't the ghost of the ghost of Andy Dalton.

How many opportunities has Bryce had vs Maye. Context matters.

Do you consider a season successful if you win the division with a losing record? The record reflects you didn't do well yet somehow lucked into the playoffs. We're winning right now, but part of the reason we're talking playoffs is our division is really bad. Personally, I judge the braintrust by growth. Have we seen improvement this year? Yes. I'll judge this braintrust as improved when I see 4 more in a row, rational decision making regarding our QB room, and multiple back to back winning seasons. If we judge by single season effectiveness alone, Nippleshorts was the greatest GM we ever had.

At least they took him at 20 instead of packaging a huge deal to move up. Makes it sting a little less i guess. Of course they could have had Brock Purdy 7 rounds later...

Philly cheese steak potato boats. London Broil been in the marinade for 3 days. Gonna be some good stuff.

It'll be interesting to see how they put resources into the defense and how the offense suffers. We've dumped nearly everything there the past 3 years which obviously isn't sustainable. We've skipped over gems on the line in the draft to draft raw prospects and those huge salaries are looming large. Feels like we need at least 2 more drafts, maybe 3 to get the rhythm back.

Hope Canales can adjust quickly in game. Hasn't been one of his strong points all season. And for fugs sake, feed the hot hand.

I was struggling listening to the commentary about how it was one of the greatest throwback uniforms ever and there were some that were just plain ugly. I kept thinking to myself, damn, I wish I had selective color blindness.

Yeah. Tepper seemed to have sucked all hope out of Charlotte the second his plane landed after buying the team.

They brought it back with 3rd and 28.

Holy fug nuggets that was close

2 penalties on one play. Trying to even the numbers a little

Wirfs and Evans both suiting up tonight.

I get what you're saying. When I looked at his performance, just the QB role, that was a good game. It was a good game I would expect from a franchise level QB. It's not a game I would classify as a stellar performance. It's the same standard I hold any QB to. I'm not holding Young to anything different. The statement was that was a stellar game. I didn't think it was and gave my reasons why. You may think it is. Perfectly acceptable. I think stellar performance is one you sit down and watch and say look how <player> took over and dominated the game. He controlled the game. He controlled the offense. He was the driving force behind the win. I don't think he met all those qualifications to call it stellar. That's all.

I didn't think the Rams game was a stellar performance. Like I said it was a good performance, but not one I would put in front of 31 other starting QBs and tell them that's the pinnacle of NFL QB performance. He was responsible for 2 TDs in truth, but he gets credit for 3. The screen to Chuba was all Chuba after the catch. He looked stellar in Atl, he looked good against the Rams. Different swagger, different feel, different command of the offense. Good performance, not a stellar one, IMO.

I'd disagree about the LAR game being stellar. He made a couple of key 4th down throws for touchdown, good throws and I give him credit for those, and a throw to Coker to seal the game but I wouldn't consider that a stellar game. The screen pass to Chubba was a standard screen pass. We had to have 2 4th down risky calls because the rest of the offense wasn't working. We were not moving the ball at will. Without a pick in the end zone and one returned for a TD, that 10 -14 point swing, we don't win that game. Bryce did not own that game. He had 3 great throws in that game, but that was really it. He did not dominate that game, at least from my point of view. 9 times out of 10, we don't win that game. Without those 3 takeaways, we don't win that game. The Dallas game, he had 200 yards passing and 3/1, but again, I wouldn't consider that stellar. What Rico did was stellar. I would consider what Bryce did a good game for a starting NFL QB. That's what those stat lines reflect and what he did in game. Did he make some big throws. Yes. But again. He didn't own that game. Rico owned that game. Maybe that's a stellar game for Bryce. I consider it a good game for a franchise QB. I expect 8 of those performances a year. Atlanta 2.0 was a stellar game. He did get a lot of help from his receivers with YAC but he was throwing it everywhere and he owned the field. That game he looked like a franchise QB. It's all in how you look at it I guess. The bar has been so low that a good game for a starting NFL QB can be considered stellar for Bryce. I want and expect more from a starting NFL QB, especially one that's going to be coming off his rookie contract and won't be able to have all the resources spent to surround him just to have this level of performance. If Bryce was a 5th round QB and not a 1st we wouldn't be having this discussion and therein lies the real issue I think. We're so heavily invested it's distorted our perception. If Bryce was playing for any other team we line up against on Sunday we'd be salivating.

I guess technically speaking, Gunner Olszewski is the best passer in the league right now going 1 for 1 for 33 yards and a TD and a 158.3 rating on the season.

But the opposite is also true. A QB comes in up by 3 scores and hands off the rest of the game and throws 2 passes, it throws off the stats. Using a complete game is a more accurate reflection is all. Same as if a QB got knocked out on the 2nd series. That game shouldn't count as a complete game for stats purposes.