Mr. Scot

Feeling genuinely optimistic rather than just repeating the annual ritual of hoping and praying that the team is better than you think they are?

It can if they've already shown some actual quarterbacking ability and at least a collegiate level of brain power, but this idea that you can just take a raw athlete and train him to have pro level quarterbacking skills (accuracy, especially) is bound to fail way more often than it works.

And Bill Polian as GM...

It's never been the injuries. The whispers that he hasn't been able to pick up the offense have been around forever. And despite denials from the 49ers, they haven't gone away. If anything, they've gotten louder. I've said before that Lance is an example of why the whole "take the athlete and coach him to be a quarterback" approach isn't a safe practice. In this case, it looks like it's turning out to be a massive error.

I wouldn't say that I agree with Jim Irsay (ever) but Taylor strikes me as the kind of guy who's going to have a really strong season or two but also a very short shelf life due to his style of play. I probably wouldn't trade for him.

Irsay... Not going over well

Meanwhile in San Francisco...

Okay, that's funny

I've said before, and still say, that Mike Shula did a good job as Newton's quarterback coach. His being promoted to OC was a huge mistake, though.

I always question whether he means anything he says. The whole "7 year plan" thing was probably just to an excuse for how poorly he was doing in the first couple of seasons. He just spouts whatever bullsh-t he thinks people will buy Agree on this

For our part, I know the word was that Corral was McAdoo's pick.

Sadly, this is probably accurate. Rhule had the Midass touch. Everything he touched turned to sh-t

Correction on Burrow...

Meatballs and Marty Hurney... ...and David Tepper...and Steven Drummond

Official word so far is a calf strain but it's not unusual for the initial diagnosis to be revised.

Nice writeup

Does this kind of behavior change your mind or would you still have wanted him?

Meanwhile at Giants camp...