Mr. Scot

Nope. It was an illustration of team thinking Could have used any established starter in the league from Daniel Jones to Josh Allen and the point would have been the same. I used Mayfield primarily because he's a familiar face / name to us.

Mind you, there's always Pete Carroll assuming his Raiders stint is one and done (general consensus points that way) but any part Carroll plays at his age would probably look more like what Capers is doing than a direct DC job. (my opinion, at least)

What KFD said... I believe Tepper is mostly staying out of football management (KFD and others disagree) and I hope it stays that way. But he did do some meddling within a recent enough window that there may still be some effects. Evero is part of that discussion.

Not sure how I'll recover from such a strong rebuttal, but I'll try

He had the best statistical performance of his career just a few weeks ago and beat an expected Super Bowl team in his last game. The team isn't gonna look at that and go "okay, but remember when he sucked as a rookie?" The only chance I see of any changes happening is if the last four games are unmitigated, biblical level disasters. If Bryce has even decent performances though, and more importantly, we win two to three of those games, well...

This is what everyone doesn'tseem to understand... ...or doesn't want to accept

It's not a comparison to Mayfield. It's an illustration of how NFL teams work and think. And sorry, but what you're hoping to see here is wishful thinking.

Sorry but I think that's rationalizing. We wanna say "it must be Tepper" because we don't want to believe that Canales / Morgan / Tilis and company see Bryce differently than we do. Truth though is that It isn't really farfetched to believe they do.

Don't know much about Wirfs injury or whether it could still be in effect when we gave them.

Not sure it matters either way (see above). I think he leaves next season. It's just a question of how.

Valid, though it's a little different in a 3-4 scheme when you're not using a true MLB. Morgan himself has said he believes in building from the trenches out.

Still not a huge fan, but someone else who looked it up said he's not under contract after this year. Between that and the other stuff, it's not hard to imagine him coaching elsewhere next season.

Haven't paid enough attention to him to have an opinion. I do know interior DL is one of the harder positions to evaluate because you only tend to notice them on highlights or lowlights. Hell, plenty of us had Derrick Brown pegged as a bust early on

That was the process from the beginning. No way to know what Carr could (or could not) have been but the way they coached him was criminally bad.

Well...

No argument

I'm always on board with this.

Most qualified guy on staff is Todd Wash. He was the Jags DC for five years. He impressed enough to get head coaching interviews. He's also got history with Canales from Seattle.

Not talking about pressers. Guys like Dan Graziano, Joe Person and others talk to people behind the scenes. Team officials don't automatically think the way we do. They make decisions we disagree with. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong. Either way, you can't ever assume that their evaluations and conclusions are gonna be the same as ours.

And if Matthew Stafford has a historically awful day, Tet McMillan didn't drop a pass, Rico Dowdle was fully healthy and Xavier Legette was contributing, we might have won by even more. You can use those sorts of "what if" scenarios to support any kind of point you want. I prefer not to even bother with them.

Yeah...no. See above.

Ryan Grigson was a lousy GM. That said, he had training, experience, access to information that none of us do, and the responsibility to craft a full roster, not just sit back and snipe about individual decisions. He was better equipped than even the smartest people on this or any other internet forum to run an NFL team... ...but he failed. Why? Because he wasn't competing against us. He was competing against Brett Veach, Brad Holmes, Les Snead and 28 other professional talent evaluators and roster builders. Being better than us is relatively easy given the advantages he has, but that's not his job. His job is to be better than those other guys, and he wasn't. On a personal level, I could frame that as Marty Hurney was better equipped than me. He made mistakes I might not have made, but in the real world I probably couldn't have done his job. I always try to keep that in perspective. They're human, they're gonna fail, but it doesn't necessarily make me superior to them.

I've read a lot of BTS stuff from NFL front offices, and what I've seen doesn't reflect this kind of thinking. The reason they picked up Darnold's fifth was the same reason they traded for him, because they believed he could be the guy. When they pick up Young's option it'll be for the same reason. Fans rationalize stuff like this because they can't imagine team decision makers not seeing players differently than how they see them. But they do. Hell, we spend entire offseasons complaining because teams being back guys like Ian Thomas.

I share your opinion, but there's pretty much no indication the team does.