SmokinwithWilly

You and I went back and forth quite a bit. It all came down to the asking rumored asking price, which I still think was a bit high. In the end though, I'm not sure Lamar would even be standing right now as bad as we've been. He also would be a terrible fit with Reich. I didn't think Carr was better than LJ, just more could be done to build around him if the contract price was good, which it clearly wasn't. Though the better play than LJ or Carr would have been to sell out for Stroud.

Miles Sanders has -3 rushing yards.

That is fuggin creepy

Doesn't phase me either way.

You can't imagine my panic when rumors of Harbaugh to the NFL and Rhulr to Michigan started surfacing. I felt like I was going to purgatory.

The record between Lloyd Carr and Jim Harbaugh is pretty damn atrocious.

No! I can't take another year of losing to the Buckeyes! To hell with your dreams.

He placed a huge bet on us taking BY before the combine. Makes sense.

Harbaugh has a meal ticket in Michigan right now and he's not leaving that for Carolina in our current situation unless the NCAA is going to nail him. But if that's the case, there's also much more lucrative jobs where he can choose his QB than this one. Other than salary, not a lot to bring him here.

BC moves better laterally than Icky. It's one of the reasons I thought he'd have a harder time moving to guard. He wasn't bad in the few games he played at LT.

How much of Bryce being 5'9" influences blocking? He can't see over these guys shoulders. They have to open lanes for him to be able to see the field. Creating space laterally so your QB can even attempt to do his job is a huge problem. That means not only do you have to hold back a rusher, but you also have to hold a lane open so he can see to make the pass. He didn't really have this issue at Bama because the talent level between his line and defenders was far bigger than in the NFL. JMO.

Can't it be both

So why build an offensive scheme for players you don't have? It doesn't make much sense.

I have no doubt that they are. With everything being broadcast and analyzed, it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult.

The playbook is the playbook and it's built around these complicated blocking schemes that don't play to our lines strengths. Changing playcallers wasn't going to change much if you're still reading from the same book.

Which is what makes it even more confusing. We have a line built to run over people but instead are one of the highest passing teams in the league.

Probably a distant cousin of the guys that deflated the footballs for Brady just to help him out.

It's one of the things that was the hardest for me to learn in business. You hire people who excel in certain areas. I can't know everything. My job is to manage the people. Letting go, especially for a control freak, is extremely difficult to do.

Or a team president who's been in the business and could look at the roster and Frank's previous coaching style and roster builds to determine if he was the right coach for the pieces we already had. That's why I have said repeatedly Tepper is the problem. He's trying to hire people to do a job while lacking the knowledge to know if they're the right people for THIS job. You only know what you know and Dave knows hedge funds, not running a NFL front office.

Which means you aren't plug and play ready for a rookie QB to lead a playoff run. Our line is built for running over people. That's not what this offense is. Frank's offense has never been that. But this is where we are now. It doesn't change the fact we've seriously hurt our ability to build around a QB that needs to be the best anomaly in NFL QB history to justify the trade. But all that aside, Tepper picked the coach with limited understanding of personnel and how coach selection would be influencing those players. The problem starts at the top.

But if you watched the games you realized that those were only 3 pieces of 53 and we weren't close to being a playoff caliber team. We couldn't win the worst division in football. With a new coach, new offensive scheme, new OC and DC, normal player rotation, etc, thinking we were ready to make a serious run was wishful thinking. To get to 1 we had to hurt the ability to build around the brand new QB. It was just a terrible plan from the start with a low chance of success.

What on earth would qualify Tepper to choose BY? Therein lies my issue. Other than the interview, what could he possibly have in football knowledge to determine whether or not any QB prospect is a franchise player.

We've half ass embraced it. Trading CMC was the start. Keeping Burns despite a ridiculous offer said we weren't. Then we trade for the 1st hampering our ability to actually build around our new QB. Now we haven't signed Burns, probably going to lose him unless a miracle happens with his contract, have a bunch of dead money floating around. It's been bits and pieces but not a full scale rebuild. Tepper made it clear he wants to win now and we're on our 5th plug and play QB for the division in 4 years. Either win for a season or win for a decade. Gotta pick one.

I'm not sure if that's impatience as much as delusion. We may have gotten close to a playoff berth last year, but it wasn't going to even be by "winning" the division. It was just a game of who sucked less. TB got obliterated in the WC game. Can't even imagine how bad we would have. This team wasn't ready to drop a QB in and make a playoff run.

The fanbase has been ready to do a rebuild the right way. No more of this half ass poo we keep doing. Embrace the suck, cuz we're already there, and just do it right from the ground up.