SmokinwithWilly

I think the speculation has traction. Harbaugh would have wanted to evaluate Young and bring in a QB if he felt Young wasn't the guy. With the way Bryce has been shielded from any real adversity in the QB room the past 2 years, it's pretty obvious he's been protected, handed the starting role, whatever you want to call it. Dalton was obviously washed up after last year, but we signed him to a 2 year contract. Head scratcher #1. Plummer was so bad in camp last year many of us were throwing fits about why he even had a number but he was brought back again as our #3. Head scratcher #2. Neither one makes any sense unless Bryce being "the guy" was part of the HC job requirements.

Not a good list. None of these guys started more games in their 1st 3 seasons than Bryce has and Fielder was a starter for almost 2 full seasons as the longest.

Check out those throwing mechanics! That's how you get zip on those throws.

It matters because we're getting ready to go against an offensive juggernaut that drove against our defense at will last time. We won because of 3 key turnovers, 1 in the red zone, 1 returned for a TD and 1 to take final possession from the Rams. We also had 2 4th down TDs that weren't part of standard offensive game plan. That's what it took to beat them last time. We're going to have to do better. DC is going to have to be better. You can't rely on 3 TO, a defensive score and 2 4th down TDs to get you there.

I see Howell as better than Dalton and if he's able to legit compete for a starting spot, whatever. At this point I'm not to ashamed to go scraping the bottom of other people's barrels. We've got Andy Dalton and Jack Plummer. Who the fug are we to talk poo about anyone else's QBs.

Tie him to the drum and bring back the entire SB50 roster to have a shot.

Should be Steve Smith. He has the greatest reception in Panthers/Rams playoff history. Beat the drum. Crowd chants X clown. Good times.

We have to start using Icky for what he's good at which is run blocking. Our run blocking schemes seem to be a little lackluster lately. Whether that's DC, BY a combo of both, or other teams DCs have figured out our walmart vanilla offense, who can be entirely certain. One thing has to change for sure and that's everything with regards to this limp dick offensive plan we put on the field or it's going to be a painful one and done this weekend.

No issues with an extension here. Pay tackles, draft guards and centers.

https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-ot-charles-cross-agrees-to-four-year-104-4m-extension 26m per year. Here’s our Icky comp. Cross is more pass pro proficient than Icky is. If we get close our oline will be close to 90m plus whatever we do at the center position. That’s a whole lot of dough for those big boys up front.

Actually no. If winning was the only thing that mattered we’d be watching from home next week. Better record doesn’t always get in.

9ers are our best chance, but if we hope to beat the Rams, we'll need to do it at home where crowd noise can cause problems for Stafford and co.

Oh no. A fat joke. Oh the burn.

And here's our very own Fat Alice. We shall call him FatKat.

We didn't win our division. Another team had to win it for us. 8-9 record. Only 5 teams in modern SB era have won a division title with a losing record, all NFC, 3 from the NFCS, and Carolina being the only 2 time winner. We have the crown but we didn't win it. At least 1, possibly 2 teams with winning records, if Detroit wins, eliminated from playoffs. We're in the playoffs but let's not pretend like Bryce spearheaded a juggernaut Pathers team to a dominant divisional title.

FIFY

Had faith in what? The Falcons winning the division for us because we couldn't do it ourselves?

Our options for the HC position were limited, particularly by our own stupidity. Steichen had a poor virtual interview so we just ignored what he had been doing in Philly running a potent offense. Canales wasn't on anyone else's radar. He's never been a HC and doesn't have the credentials to be an OC and HC. He was brought in to fix Bryce. It was a condition of being hired that Bryce was going to be his QB. No qualified HC is locking into a historically bad QB as his only option. DC is here because Tepper likes a certain type of person in charge and that's one he can tell what to do that won't push back.

Nope. That's all on dumb ass Dave Tepper. But how do you work for a boss and build a team for an owner that has just cut your legs out from under you. You can't trust anything he or his GM yes man says because both will lie right to your face. You can't run your offense because the player chosen for you isn't the type of player you would ever chose for yourself. It's like writing right handed all your life and switching over to left. Can you do it? Yeah. Is it going to be anything remotely close to legible. Nope. My guess is Frank told Tepper either he fires him and lets him keep his salary or he goes public about all the poo that just went down and Tepper isn't getting another real coach or GM again.

He had an 8 figure reason not to.

Because he didn't care anymore. He didn't want Bryce. Bryce didn't fit his offensive mold at QB. Tepper picked his QB for him. Look at his demeanor before and after the draft. Can't work for a boss that lies to your face.

Frank didn't suck. He knew week 1 of practice he didn't want to do 4 years of this poo.

Only one person in charge is making the major decisions and he knows nothing about running a football team.

I had to reply to BigKat earlier. Sorry I missed the sarcasm.

I get what you're saying. That's why I thought Dalton was such a horrible signing. We needed a QB2 like Jameis, Brissett, Howell. DC needed just much evaluation on his offense as Bryce did as a QB. DC's play calling still looks like ass, but you can’t tell if it's DC or Bryce or a combo because there was no real QB2 to run it the one week Bryce was out.