Mr. Scot

Tua is being benched...

Yeah, it wouldn't exactly have been Next Gen Stats back in those years. (Gen X Stats?)

He may have a DK Metcalf body but he's got a Plaxico Burress brain.

Yeah, that's unusual. Was it a big high school? I'm definitely not a fan of how dumbed down it seems like the NCAA has become. I've always acknowledged though that a college head coach's job isn't to get his players ready for the NFL. It's to win games, and for that you gotta do what works.

Canales and Evero were the guys I was looking at this past Sunday. There was also an unusual lack of discipline from our players, No I think a lot of folks blame the guys in the black and white stripes more. Brandon Staley is definitely winning in head to head competition vs Canales so far. Canales did a better job against him for about two and a half quarters but by games end our second tussle with the Saints for starting to more closely resemble the first one. Not gonna bother rehashing how I feel about Evero...

From the 70s through the 80s and a while after you could define most offenses as either Air Coryell, WCO (Walsh) or Erhardt-Perkins. The core philosophies of those systems are still around and I still use the terminology to describe concepys but I don't know that too many are strict adherents anymore. Reid maybe. Harbaugh is an old school kinda guy and Greg Roman is his OC so I'd expect a heavy WCO track. Carroll is using Greg Olson out in Vegas if I remember correctly. But yeah, with people style offenses being all but extinct at the college level, it's a tougher transition anymore... especially at quarterback and receiver. (remember one GM saying something like most college guys vouldn't recognize a route tree to save their lives)

He could be a threat for maybe a couple of games, and not necessarily in consecutive order. These days I think he's more of a threat to himself and his career

Or when we're playing the Saints I don't believe he's had a bad season overall but the Saints (and especially Olavé) have kinda roughed him up.

Legette and Mingo's issues can't rightly be laid at Bryce's feet.

I'm talking more Walsh style WCO than Coryell. I know they used to refer to Air Coryell with similar terminology but after Walsh blew up, I stopped hearing that term used outside of Walsh / Shanahan/ Holmgren and company.

Uh huh Let's just say in some of our prior conversations, what "we" know of Tepper hasn't exactly panned out on any consistent basis.

PSA: In the interest of clarity, the above reference is not meant as a direct comparison between Christian Rozeboom and Junior Seau. ... (I'd like for that to go without saying but my experience with these sorts of conversations, including today specifically, suggests that a disclaimer is warranted)

I wonder if there's an official tab on how many Junior Seau used to miss. That was one of the bigger knocks on him back in the day.

I mean, you can get away with a "straight line" style linebacker under some circumstances. I don't think we use him under those particular circumstances though, so...

A big part of my interest in Howell is skill set. He's best suited for the kind of WCO style attack we use. I don't think the team would give him a shot to start barring injury, but you can never say what'll happen. (had Drew Bledsow stayed healthy, Tom Brady might be back in Michigan coaching high school football)

Eehhh, again not really. Canales said he doesn't like using Bryce in QB sneaks due to his size. It's a stretch to call that , "limiting the playbook". All that said, bring back Robert Hunt, get a better center next season, keep the rest of the line healthy... hell, I'd volunteer to trot my cane using / sub 200 pound / damn near 60 year old ass under center for a sneak (Canales probably wouldn't put me in though)

Metaphorical comparisons never seem to land successfully in this forum

Except he's not. He referenced Brees and Wilson in reference to the ages at which they started trending up. Oddly enough though, both Brees and Wilson share a similar playing style (i.e. "point guard" type WCO distributor).

Hell, Shough is 26 (I think) and had some injury issues during his college years. I know Saint fans are happy with him so far but it's still a small sample his age likely means a shorter pro career assuming he stays healthy (which you can't assume). The Saints would be wise to keep an insurance policy, and probably a better one than Spencer Rattler.

Yeah, never really expected Horn to be a Legion of Boom style DB. His coverage is still pretty highly thought of, which is what they drafted him for. Among the corners, I hear Mike Jackson being talked about as the hardest hitter.

Don't know if I'd go that far. It was still Reich in charge at the time (who I, like many, still believe would have preferred Stroud) and the phrase they kept using to describe Bryce was "point guard". In football terms that translates to a West Coast style quarterback, which is what Bryce was (and is).

I love the idea of signing Howell but I doubt it involves any chance to win the starting job.

This may surprise you, but there's no real evidence that David Tepper shares your feelings on either of them. On the flipside, his recent comments on "what they were building" actually did sound pretty positive. Granted, behind the scenes stuff and unexpected stuff happens (both guys could get caught hitting on m members of the Top Cats, etc) but there looks to be enough good will around both of them that it's likely take way more than just a down year from Bryce to get both of them sent to their rooms without any supper.

Side Note: Having once dated a gymnast who was approximately the size and build of Shawn Johnson, I'd just say don't underestimate their power just because they're petite

You're referring to the guy who not long ago got stung by the criticism of how many different coaches he'd been through in a short cycle? The same guy who also not much more than a week ago went on record saying he really loved what he saw Dan Morgan and Dave Canales building here? That David Tepper? Okay, sure Lemme guess: Is David Tepper sitting right next to you in the room again?