Khyber53

Let's wait and see how it turns out. Much stranger things have happened in this league. I think we will have to fire him/ let him go, but he might interview well and throw the management team and ownership under the bus during an interview, which he'd create some hard to argue against points. I've been saying he's been terrible since last season and I feel that perhaps he was retained for the Rooney rule pay-off if he got a head coaching gig elsewhere. He's probably the worst defensive coordinator I've ever seen. But trust me, there are many, many much more delusional things that have been said on this board, before and now.

Actually, I hold the whole defense against Evero. It was terrible last year and it's even worse this year. Injuries aside, the players look ill-prepared to play, they are timid in tackling and we seem to be very passive in our defensive play calling. I think Evero will be among the coaches called for head coaching interviews and we may get very lucky and he gets a head coaching job somewhere out there. If not, we desperately need to move on. And he isn't one of Canales' guys, but he was given that extra year here at Tepper's request. I think that boon has worn thin. Any words as to keeping the guy right now are just stagecraft and positioning.

And on defense... never seen a group that had such a hard time making even the most straightforward tackle. We need to move back to the 4-3 and rebuild the linebacking corps. That group has always set the tone for our team. I don't like the tone they've set since Shaq went down and honestly, I don't know if he can come back from this injury.

We also can't forget that neither Blackshear or Boone were any good at picking up blitzers coming in. The team missed Chuba for more than carrying the ball. Chuba this season has begun attacking the incoming blitzer like CMC used to, and that has helped Bryce so much. Hunt had a bad game and there's something that the Bucs coaching staff identified (perhaps during the last meeting) that allowed them to get the better of him again and again. It was way out of his regular levels of performance. Perhaps there was an unreported injury that they picked up on. Ickey. Man, that's one of the toughest jobs in the NFL he has. And our lack of running game didn't help him any. He's doing enough to hang on to the job, but he's performing poorly enough to make him vulnerable to a training camp challenge from a FA vet or a really under-scouted rookie.

This ^ 100 percent.

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Won me over completely last week when he laid out that missile of a pass right before taking that hit right to the face, then popped back up smiling when he saw the completion. The kid has moxy.

Give 'em all a shot, especially on defense. When a "good" defensive effort is keeping the other team around 30 points, you might find some kind of spark. If not, it's probably not going to get much worse. Of course some of the guys on that list might not have seen the field because of minor injuries that didn't have to be reported or something important like they are struggling with the playbook still at this point in the season. Some guys are just part of the background rabble in team meetings, but surely one of these is an overachiever waiting for a shot. Something tells me, though, with Canales uplifting, character building style of coaching, if you can be on that field, you've been given a chance already. And that's a bit worrisome. It could mean that our dregs are the dregs leftover by the rest of the league. A sobering, but potentially true, possibility.

Whatever.

I'd much rather regularly be picking at the back of the first round than at the first. Every year that we get further from the number one pick in the draft is an improvement. I'm not here for specific players, I'm here for the team.

He's done well enough to put QB on back burner for the time being. He may prove to be the guy or might not but right now, he's earned his QB1 spot for the start of 2025. And that will thankfully keep up out of the massive clusterfugg that will be the drafting of Sanders.

I'd have said corner higher before Jackson started performing so well. He's been turning out some good performances here of late and yesterday really did great CB work.

If we don't fix the defense, we will be stuck at the Cardinals level for a very long time.

Gosh it was so nice to have that win. And it was a hard-won one, too. Good character shown by Bryce and the whole team. We might actually be decent to good next year. And I think we will win at least one of our last two games.

No one in their right mind looks at how Bryce has performed since coming back and thinks we need to drop another first round pick on a QB in the upcoming draft. If you're watching the games, and you should be, you can see that we need help on defense more than anything else right now. Bryce is showing incredible growth as a QB and I wouldn't stop that growth right now when Edge, LB and DT are so desperately needed.

Both teams also have steady to good defenses. Something we don't have at all here. You should be able to win games if you can score 24 points.

Psst... we also had a great defense back then... helps any QB out immensely. Great defenses give QBs more shots.

Or reinstitute a full back and really go with a power running game to make the most of Chuba and whoever his stablemate will be. Along with more effort on using the TEs.

No, he's still in the learning curve. And these kinds of games are going to happen. But if we don't want to ever have the guy that those prior games hinted at, then we bench him. I think you keep rolling the dice on the very young man and keep building a good team around him. That offensive line needs some help. We may need another swing at a receiver. WE DEFINITELY NEED HELP ON DEFENSE, PARTICULARLY PEOPLE WHO CAN FRIKKIN' TACKLE THAT AREN'T DBs. Right now, crazy as it might sound, Young isn't high on the list of problems we have.

One of the biggest factors was Dallas' decision NOT to blitz us. So far, in the games leading up to this, teams have used our matchup as a chance for unrestricted blitz practices. They've sent extra rushers time and time again and strangely, Bryce thrived under that. It got him to moving around and also put at least one less person out their in pass defense. Even with a depleted defense, Dallas stuck with their traditional four man rush and we just collapsed under it. Bryce seems much more decisive when he sees blitz in the pre-snap. Still, even with the turnovers, this doesn't fall all on the QB's shoulders. On defense, we royally suck. We can't tackle for sh!t. They played like a bunch of guys who were trying to make sure they weren't injured before the holidays. And honestly, with our record, I can see that being the case. They've given their all over the last few weeks, and the ranks are getting thinner, so maybe we're either down to the timid or the tired or the taints.

No drops, has an incredible bounce back game, Dolla Bill takes a lap.

Cowboys 13 Panthers 24

We're with you in spirit like you are with the team. We're cheering for you man, hopefully better days ahead.

Sadly, me and my guys and gal didn't. I started out in 1979, but as a 10 year old with divorcing parents, there just wasn't the money to get them. And my gaming group met up in 1988 and started playing but somehow it was never in the modules, just roll and goes. So, almost 35 years later and we're still gaming, and we just had a little nostalgic idea that we ran with. It has been a hoot.

My buddies from college, my wife and I about a year ago decided to go back to our youth and start an AD&D campaign. Old school rules and we realized we had never played the great modules that were available back in the day. So we started with T1-4 (The Village of Hommlet and The Temple of Elemental Evil), moving on through the G series (Against the Giants) and will maybe do the D series (Descent into the Depths of the Earth, et al) and finish out with Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Had to buy original copies online, but it has been a blast. We've been playing weekly for about a year and a half and have made it to G2 the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl. Old school has been sooo much fun, but the game was much more deadly back then. No idea how any of our characters survived. Sorry, I've dated myself and outed myself as a lifelong geek. Deal with it, folks like that run the world nowadays.