Khyber53

And honestly, Burns was all hype and little production. Folks loved him because of the Spider-man celebration. He was lousy in run containment and only could generate pressure in one-on-one situations with bottom half of league level OTs. Ask the Giants how good he is... they'll only tell you the truth if they aren't trying to trade him.

Cam was the prototype. He was what a long line of mobile QBs evolved into, from Fran Tarkenton to Cunningham to Vick to Cam and then to Josh and Lamar. Those two guys are the pinnacle of the mobile QB position now. Smart, fast, big and they've got not just laser cannons for arms, but have incredible processing ability matched with leadership skills. What do Josh and Lamar have that's better than Cam's? They can work the team aspect better on the field, whereas Cam had it in his nature (and nurture) to put the entire game on his shoulders and will it to happen.

Folks really got pissed when I said Tepper would only hire coaches that didn't intimidate him. I still stand by my initial assessment. And look where that has gotten us.

Time to jettison both of them. If you think Bryce was the only person we fielded yesterday who wasn't coached up or capable of being on a professional football field, then you are missing something. Outside of Chuba Hubbard and Jaycee Horn, no one looked like they had done their homework, knew their assignments or had even shown up for training camp. That's on the entire coaching staff along with the poor play calling and clock management issues. We have poorly chosen and recruited players, then we poorly coach them up and poorly motivate them. We do pay them fairly well, but that, it is beginning to seem more and more likely, is because well, we have to. Not sure if I can sit through another season of this crap. It would take something miraculous.

Best of luck to you and better days in real life ahead, man.

One problem I've had with T-Mac since we chose him is that he has this "cooler than you" vibe. And it's something he works at creating. And that might be part of those one-hand grab attempts. Always trying for the catch that ends up on the poster, yanno? And that leads to, well, drops. In the end zone. Be a professional, catch the ball, make the touchdown.

These are the same guys they showed themselves to be in the pre-season. We look like the kid who never does his homework being called to come up to the chalkboard and explain a math equation. Good job coach.

We seem to have drafted two WRs for specific traits: Catch radius and the ability to go up for a contested ball in the endzone. We somehow missed out on things like route running, situational awareness and speed. XL and T-Mac (do they really deserve nicknames based on output yet?) aren't very good at the route tree yet, they don't seem to know to break the play for opportunities when PeeWee gets pressured and the two of them can be timed using Calendars when they are on the field. It used to be our fastest receiver was an aging white dude who was a UDFA castoff from Minnesota. We replaced him with basically the same white dude, just younger, cast off from the Raiders. Yeah, XL sucks, but the process that chose him and chose a partial clone of him again the next round might be the bigger problem.

It's shameful.

Small and slow are apparently two of our scouting goals. Everyone on the team is one or the other -- a few standouts are both. Most undersized LBs ever, slowest DEs, tiniest QB, slowest WRs... Really, I think this team could be whipped by 53 Todd Sauerbrun clones, especially if he was still taking the testosterone supplements. And yeah, Evero... is Tepper punishing him or just us?

Tepper's fault is not knowing enough to hire or retain people who know football. But you have to lay the blame on the hucksters that have talked him into hiring these coaches. This team looks completely unprepared, just as they did in the pre-season. You practice how you play. There's no hunger in this team. There's no bully. There's no mean. There are no balls. fug these soft ass coaches.

Time to blow the whole thing up. I know it's just the first game but when the milk smells spoiled, you don't have to drink a couple of glasses to make sure before throwing out the jug.

It is appropriate that we wore white shirts and white pants for this game, because that defense was a bunch of marshmallows. Little pressure, most of the tackling done by the DBs. Got pushed around by a meh team. We keep waiting for that defense to get better. And waiting. And waiting.

This is not a professional football team from ownership on down to trainers. Half of the teams will lose in the first week. Roughly a quarter of the league will be 0-2 at the end of next week. And we may still be looking for a win by November at this rate. At least we got a TD.

It's still early. And apparently will be for a while today.

Well, in 2003 we had Rodney Peete and had just snagged some Cajun dude who'd spent time on and off New Orleans' bench and practice squad, had played a bit in Europe. Moose was being considered kind of a guy that hadn't lived up to being a WR1 and Smitty was interesting but hadn't really evolved yet. And then there was Ricky Proehl, an aging, not-so-fast white guy with good hands. Our RB corps was a rookie out of UCLA with a lot of question marks and an aging guy who'd just been jettisoned by the Deadskins. Our o-line was suspect and our offensive play caller was a former head coach of the Falcons. Of course, we had this monster of a player at DE named Julius Peppers. The league had gotten a glimpse of him the year before but they had no idea. No idea at all what they were running into. In 2015 we lost Kelvin Benjamin in the pre-season to injury and we were ready to hang it up right then and there. It would take 15 regular season games and one really pissed off Falcons team before someone would hang a loss on us. So, maybe, just maybe, we can find a spark of magic this season, the conditions seem eerily familiar. Sure would be nice.

In this roster's defense, neither the 2003 or 2015 rosters screamed anything but another lackluster season. Sometimes, you just catch the magic. Sure would be nice again. Of course, both of those teams had established, game setting linebacking corps. And we've got... errr...

I can't wait for this game. I do worry about the outcome, though. We're going to learn a lot about things very quickly.

None of the wipes are really flushable. There's news stories a couple of times a year about this and how they are destroying municipal waste systems. And if you have a septic system.... oh man, that's going to be gross.

I wouldn't drop David Moore, honestly. Moore, while long in the tooth and light in production, is about the only veteran presence in the WR room now and the only one with extensive experience with what Canales wants and needs. And that's probably why he made the roster. Still, aging safeties who might make a decent gunner just aren't where you want to spend your money and roster spots. Even at vet minimum, he's not going to be as cheap or maybe as trainable as some UDFA who would run through a brick wall for a roster spot for rookie league minimum and a chance.

If the Saints, a team arguably worse than we were last season, with a similarly bad defense (although not as historically bad as we were) let the guy go... ... there's a reason. The only thing we could gain from grabbing him is some insight into the Saints' special teams efforts. And that's just not worth a roster spot.

Not trying to say it, but...

I've got hopes for this season. And I want to see Bryce hit his potential this year. He's in a better position than before to do it, but it's also a training wheels off situation now that AT has gone back to the land of Skol! I'm still worried about our defense, but that's scheme as much as players. Still, I've been wrong before. Maybe there will be a certain magic that happens this year. Sure would be great. Either way, it's my team, whether it's cheers or tears.