Khyber53

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.

Better supporting cast and I really felt like we spent a lot of time scheming to get Brian Burns to take off. Good luck to the young fellow, though.

If your coach is on the hotseat, you don't want to be facing the Panthers. Will Bryce claim another scalp?

We finally have grit.

Young player, he's going to make some mistakes, blow some routes, drop some easy passes. There are older guys on the team with more experience that have dropped some passes this year, as well. We're playing for next year, folks.

I wanted us to move on. I was wrong. The kid has earned his spot.

Like I tried to say there, I was for Ladd back in the day. But, on to Legette... let's give him some time. It was a bad day for him, and for a few other players. I see something more in him than I saw in TMJ and Mingo. Let's give him time to pan out.

They sure loved him just a little while ago. But hey, things change fast on the Huddle.

Were you one of the guys telling me at draft time that my choice of Ladd McConkey was just stupid? Ladd also has a much more experienced QB throwing to him. Throwing behind a better line. And with more options. And... and... and... Ad nauseum.