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Frank is our playcaller.

Worth noting, Seattle’s D has been dog poo giving up 30+ in every game.

I’m about to go find that preseason Sanders thread and bump it….where I kept telling folks over and over about Sanders and got poo’d on.

2nd week in a row. it’s the 3rd quarter and Hubbard doesn’t have a rush attempt at this point in the game. Frank knows it made Sanders look bad week 1 to let Hubbard in the mix

Well, there are different variables at play. Saints have a better D. Life should be harder vs them. still think you need a full game from Dalton before making any definitive statements. Half to go

if the question is about WRs getting open and scheme getting them open….I can. Because it’s not relevant to that. It’s a positive of Andy Dalton. He can find busted coverage and take advantage of that. 2 different things

Take out the busted coverage play Andy is 59% for 111 yards against a bad secondary. I still say you got to see a full game. This offense in reality isn’t doing much and generally the 2nd half/3rd is where it has really been bogging down for them

Still half a game left. Outside of Dalton seeing a busted coverage….no one around Dalton has done diddly this game. Got to see Dalton play an entire game with predictable playcalling, pressure and no one getting open first. That’s likely going to end up going bad for Andy over the course of a full game. 3rd quarter has generally been the bad quarter to date

I mean it was busted coverage. Credit Dalton for seeing it. But that’s not Chark getting open.

Busted coverage. About the only way our dudes can get open downfield.

we invested too much into Bryce to let Frank ruin him in this dumpster fire offense. No talent around the QB and with playcalling that makes me miss Joe Brady, Jeff Davidson, etc.

We went from rockstar to allstar

They paid good money to bring Sanders in. Staff doesn’t want to highlight the fact Mrs. Rhule’s pick runs better in a trash environment

Just got home. Someone sum up the game thus far. Promising? Same as it has been?

You are suggesting these two things are the same. They aren’t. Does Bryce have a high ankle? Tell me about the injury. What has Frank or anyone shared? That’s not NFL normal. Every NFL player plays through stuff. Some never see a single game at full health. We had a first rounder before that never saw a game his rookie year at full strength. That’s part of the NFL.

Sanders is an early down committee RB. And not great. Good. Philly already told us that.

Not for what they are running on offense. they have a run blocking O. They have primarily rushers in the backfield. And they got a cast of #3 type WRs that can’t get quick separation…..in a small ball/shotgun offense. All with that with a boring and predictable play caller. I spoke on it before the season started and folks didn’t want to acknowledge it. Bryce wasn’t being setup for success. And it has started pretty predictable.

Not one coach will touch that with any detail whatsoever. That’s not NFL normal. playoffs have nothing to do with this year. It’s a developmental season. The entire purpose of this season is growing Bryce. Not making the playoffs

The entire point of having a rookie QB is to develop him. You can also ruin a QB by putting him horrific spots. Carolina doesn’t have a functional offense for a rookie QB to be developed. They flat out don’t have the talent around Bryce for what they are attempting. And Bryce is a HUGE investment. Frank needs to fix the offense is he can actually develop a rookie QB. Life in his scheme is just going to keep getting harder until change happens and that’s not on Young. and I this point, I again go back to Bama. Young struggled above the shoulders when he got to Bama and life wasn’t the textbook show he was used to. They did a special on mental health about it.

Same vibe you got with Brown, IMO Andy Dalton put out there too if you listen close IMO. Was sort of dismissive about a reporter suggesting Bryce could take advantage of watching while hurt….he was like yeah or the other way to look at it is you need to play. Everything has a weird vibe. Was a layup question if he was hurt and Dalton steered it to him playing was best.

I would think that if that was the play….then Frank would have said the play. Which is pretty standard for a coach. Frank won’t. Frank also won’t give any details on the ankle. Which is again, just a tiny odd. Normally a coach will comment on a high ankle or rule out X. Frank hasn’t touched any aspect of it. I still lean toward the post game treatment being standard. Half the team is getting it. And that Bryce just had some pretty normal wear and tear. Ankle being one of the spots sore. But the those stuff most deal with. Bryce walking all over BOA and not just the practice field plus the early rule out just screams giving him a break. Which is the right call based on what a joke Frank has put together around him. Plus, Young has struggled with adversity before I believe at Bama.

Dabo’s had 2 Ls plenty of times during this historic run. It will be okay Paul Finnebaum. we can just look at the nattys to cope with the pain in the meantime.

This is a college football thread. College football talk. Good old fashioned rooting for and against is welcome. You want to discuss it any other way? You are more than welcome to take that convo to the TB and start a football thread to discuss.

I mean Sanders himself has recently spoken about how the current setup makes going after HS kids frankly silly. not saying there is zero effort there but it’s different in this new era. And it is. Sanders is right. 5 stars bust all the time. Left and right. And it take a lot of resources. Smart play in the current setup is to largely focus on letting that filter out elsewhere and recruiting actual college players. so you can recruit a bunch of 5 star and 4 stars at WR like Clemson and spend all your time sifting that out and trying to develop them or Sanders can use his leverage and personality to just go get a kid that is an actual stud at the college level.

Nope. He won’t. and Sanders himself has spoken on why he won’t. College football is changing. No point bothering with the high school kids. That’s Sanders own words. Unless the NCAA does something about the current setup. Sanders will just go to a school with a massive wallet and they will just pay established players to come there for the most part. Why recruit a high school kid when he can just get Marvin Harrison Jr to finish up his career with him and moves like that.