SmokinwithWilly

I'm down for Fields as a backup/learn under QB for the right price. Obviously I prefer someone a bit more consistent at the position, but at least we don't have to worry about him breaking a hip running onto the field like Dalton

Because after nearly winning DROY, and he should have realistically, the coaching staff decided to move him out of the position he was dominating. Opposing offenses couldn't neutralize him, so our coaching staff did it for them.

We can't build the dline just like the oline. We don't have the cap space to toss out massive contracts to instantly improve. It's gonna have to be done through the draft and some good FA shopping. Fixing it will take 2 years at least, even if we draft well.

They can 100% influence gamesand it's perfectly legal. They are an entertainment industry no different than WWE. There's only so far they can go due to the players themselves, but refs can absolutely kill drives, make timely bad calls, etc. As long as they don't cost Vegas to lose too much, or make it to obvious no one will say a thing.

It's an entertainment league. The refs can have bias because having tech make obvious calls like ball placement would make steering the story too difficult.

Gonna have to draft Higgins a new hamstring if we got him. Dude always has soft tissue injuries it seems.

In some aspects it might be. Take away classes, life on campus, limited practice time and lesser players and certain parts of the game might be easier. Not to say that they all are by any stretch, but I could see a couple things being easier to deal with than at the college level.

At this point, you have to worry about developing the other guys as well. Can't just worry about is Young gonna be the guy. If he regresses and Dalton is the better option, you go with the Red Rifle.

Probably as crazy as you think. I'd guess it was done for around a million, maybe a little more. I know what I pay for sod and a bulk order like that would definitely get discounted. The removal of the old and prep of the sublayer would be the biggest costs

Probably has to do with the weather and/or health of the turf. Cold weather bluegrass starts shifting towards dormancy so by bringing in from another location that hasn't been affected yet, they could get better turf health and durability.

Here's how you do it. 2020 The Washington FT is poised to win the NFC East with a losing record (would be Rivera's 2nd time as a HC) and won't go far if anywhere in the post season. Poised to play the Panthers, Dwayne Haskins is named starter and proceeds to crap the bed in the 1st half, so much so the announcers are saying if Rivera wants to have a chance at winning, he has to be benched. He's played into the 4th qtr before being benched for Heinicke who almost leads the comeback. So close but not quite. Haskins is cut Monday. The following week the winner of the Philly/wash game wins the division and heads to the playoffs. The game was a comedy of wtf calls by coaches. I remember watching the game thinking neither of them wanted to win. Pederson ends up tanking worse than Rivera and Washington heads to the playoffs for a 1 and done. While not a 8 or 9 game tank-a-thon, that's how you do it, or at least attempt to. Haskins was playing so badly that any coach with serious hopes of making the playoffs was not naming him starter. The team was put in such a bad position that winning was highly unlikely.

If the FO had half a brain and actually watched tape vs a 15 minute play breakdown at the dinner table, the pick would have been Stroud and the 2nd pick would have been Young. The team itself doesn't tank. The FO and the HC cause the team to tank by who they play. You can't ask the players to not play, they're not going to do that. But the HC and FO can put them in a bad position to win by deciding not to play guys with nagging injuries or by playing younger guys who they need to see what they've got, or by calling a mediocre game plan. It's been attempted before. Most recent memory would be Rivera with Wash/Car and Wash/Philly. They ended up winning the 2nd, their division with a losing record only to be bounced out of the playoffs. It cost them about a dozen spots in draft position.

I've already got $500 he throws for under 125.

That and so many top tier WRs have had major injuries.

It's been working pretty damn well.

The fact the Bears have never had a 4k yard passer says a lot about their development of QBs as a franchise. Williams always had potential, but was also the riskiest QB pick. Daniels always made more sense from a QB maturity standpoint. Chicago is where QBs go to watch their career die.

This team has never had back to back winning seasons. We've never experienced sustained success or a winning culture in Carolina.

When Chuba got folded like a pretzel I thought that was the end. Nothing BY had done to that point had given me any confidence that he could pull off a game winning drive on his own.

The 3-4 was Dave's choice. We've never really had the players to run it effectively.

And he also was drafted into a position he didn't have to start right away and could learn under one of the greatest offensive minds in the game. Situation matters as well as talent.

JMO but I think the culture was established during FA last year. That culture was to coddle Bryce and not hurt his feelings by bringing in serious competition after one of the worst seasons in NFL history. He was also handed the starting job without any real competition and proceeded to poo the bed in such an epic fashion he had to be benched. How can anyone seriously believe the culture is all about winning when the biggest issue in the locker room is never even addressed? Even the players were excited about Dalton because he could actually make throws that Bryce can't and Dalton isn't anything to be excited about. You can't be serious about establishing a winning culture when you coddle players and don't actually try to improve at the most important position on the field.

Here's the way I see it. In the 20 games he's played so far, we haven't seen 1 complete performance that you would expect from an NFL quality starting QB. If they want to keep Bryce, fine. But don't stop actively looking for another starter level QB either. Dalton is going to be 100 next year (in NFL years) and we need to replace him. We should be actively looking to improve the QB position.

Who the F is BW?

Chuba impressed me by somehow not breaking or tearing something when he got contorted into a pretzel.

If you want to celebrate a win, feel free. I'm bigger picture at this point. I've seen this team screw itself over and over again with wins that don't really matter and everyone has forgotten by the first snap of camp. And Ive seen enough mediocrity to last a lifetime, and calling the last 6 years mediocrity would be generous. Dalton's career is all but over. But we should never stop looking for our next QB. Even with the GOAT, Billy B still drafted and looked for his next QB just in case. I'm ready for bigger picture football. Once we actually do that, then I'll start celebrating wins against really bad teams. It's just where I'm at as a fan.