Jay Roosevelt

Hurney is the best GM this franchise has ever had. Perfect? No. But he knew how to hit on 1st rounders.

I mean, Hunt and Lewis were free agents. Not sure that counts.

I've been a big Bryce supporter, but he objectively is not "fine." Not that the play calling and trash WR play from everyone not named TMac helps, but this isn't just a matter of a lack of a supporting cast. He's not making basic plays even when they are there to be made.

If the other guy didn't try to have someone murdered, Xavier Legette would easily be the worst draft pick this franchise has ever spent on a WR.

To be fair, I don't know that it'd make much of a difference with how awful our defense is who the QB is.

Which is exactly why it's the organization's job to care about it.

This. Who are we going to lose exactly? Is Xavier Legette going to throw a hissy fit and start actually catching more than rodents? Is Trevin Wallace going to stop trying to tackle? And if he did could we even tell?

All you can really do is keep taking shots until you hit on a player. This honestly isn't anything new. QBs have always been a crapshoot. 1ST ROUND QBs SINCE 2010: HOME RUN (ELITE/FRANCHISE QB): Cam Newton (2011) Andrew Luck (2012) Patrick Mahomes (2017) Josh Allen (2018) Lamar Jackson (2018) Joe Burrow (2020) Justin Herbert (2020) Jordan Love (2020) - DEBATABLE ELITE/LONG-TERM STARTER, BUT TRENDING UP. Jayden Daniels (2024) - TRENDING. BUST (NOT AT LEAST A LONG-TERM STARTER): Sam Bradford (2010) The Golden Calf of Bristol (2010) Jake Locker (2011) Blaine Gabbert (2011) Christian Ponder (2011) Robert Griffin III (2012) - INJURY BUST Brandon Weeden (2012) E.J. Manuel (2013) Blake Bortles (2014) Johnny Manziel (2014) Jameis Winston (2015) Marcus Mariota (2015) Carson Wentz (2016) Paxton Lynch (2016) Mitchell Trubisky (2017) Josh Rosen (2018) Daniel Jones (2019) Dwayne Haskins (2019) - R.I.P. Zach Wilson (2021) Trey Lance (2021) Mac Jones (2021) Kenny Pickett (2022) Bryce Young (2023) - TRENDING Anthony Richardson (2023) - TRENDING LONG-TERM STARTER (NOT ELITE): Ryan Tannehill (2012) Teddy Bridgewater (2014) Jared Goff (2016) Baker Mayfield (2018) Sam Darnold (2018) - HARD TO RANK; WAS A BUST EARLY BUT LOOKS LIKE A LONG-TERM STARTER GOING FORWARD. Kyler Murray (2019) Tua Tagovailoa (2020) - UNTIL HIS NEXT CONCUSSION ANYWAY. Trevor Lawrence (2021) - LONG-TERM STARTER, BUT CERTAINLY NOT ELITE. C.J. Stroud (2023) - TRENDING/COULD BE BETTER. Caleb Williams (2024) - TRENDING/COULD BE BETTER. Drake Maye (2024) - TRENDING/COULD BE BETTER. Bo Nix (2024) - TRENDING/COULD BE BETTER. TOO EARLY TO TELL: Michael Penix Jr. (2024) J.J. McCarthy (2024) Cam Ward (2025) Jaxson Dart (2025) SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES: Deshaun Watson (2017) - LOOKED ELITE FOR A MINUTE, THEN WENT TO HELL ON AND OFF THE FIELD. Justin Fields (2021) - TOUGH TO RANK. COULD STILL BE A LONG-TERM STARTER, BUT LIKELY NEVER ELITE.

Yes. Play just hard enough to end up picking #14 overall and miss out on all the QBs.

There's zero reason to bench Bryce Young again. If he's not going to be the answer to help us win games then he needs to be part of the reason why we lose enough to secure a high enough draft pick to get the QB who can.

Too early to say. Still a lot of football to be played this season.

I'm getting the sense that Evero was promised a level of control on the defensive side of the ball that isn't common with most teams. Canales is the head coach; if he wants someone to play, they should play. He shouldn't have to "push" for anything. Does Evero have it in his contract that he makes these decisions?

My top-25: 01. Ohio State 02. Penn State 03. Oregon 04. Georgia 05. LSU 06. Miami 07. Texas 08. Notre Dame 09. South Carolina 10. Florida State 11. Illinois 12. Oklahoma 13. Tennessee 14. Clemson 15. South Florida 16. Iowa State 17. Alabama 18. Auburn 19. Texas A&M 20. Ole Miss 21. Michigan 22. Tulane 23. TCU 24. Navy 25. Arizona State

The league has figured out Mike McDaniel's offense. I doubt he lasts the season.

If he wanted out, fine. But he needed to let us know that in February or March, not halfway through training camp. At that point, if I'm Dan Morgan, my answer is "tough poo" unless the Vikings give us an offer I can't turn down.

Plenty of QBs have had draft capital spent on them and still been bad. Remember Joey Harrington? The Lions drafted 3 WRs back-to-back-to-back in the 1st round trying to make that pick work. I'm not arguing that Bryce hasn't been bad, but to say he's the worst EVER? That covers a LOT of ground.

If I have to watch another game with Xavier Legette as a starting WR... Just an absolutely garbage football player. Pretty much the posterchild for when drafting athletes over football players goes bad.

Get Austin Corbett out of there. If he can't snap the ball OR block, what good is he? It's not like we don't have two other players who have shown they're capable of playing center. Speaking of Brady Christensen, why the hell was he not starting at LT? Nijman should be a last resort, not the first man up.

I honestly don't think so, it's just that the damage he did during the Rhule/Reich years was so bad it's continued to linger. Not to mention he never really made a totally clean break from Scott Fitterer when he hired Dan Morgan. Also, trading up to #1 for a QB that hasn't panned out is going to set your franchise back a few years regardless.

Let's not get too crazy here. There have been some pretty God awful QBs in NFL history that Bryce - even at his worst - is far better than. He at least has managed a handful of wins and some decent performances, like last year against the Chiefs, Eagles and Falcons. Just off the top of my head: JaMarcus Russell, Paxton Lynch, Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith, Johnny Manziel and that's just a handful of 1st rounders off the top of my head that were, at worst, no better than Bryce.

In all honestly, as a Bryce supporter from the start it's pretty clear he's probably not the answer at this point. I wouldn't be shocked if he turned it around this year, but odds are we'll be looking for a new QB come draft season. That said, anyone calling for Bryce to be benched is wrong. We MUST have one of two outcomes to this season for this franchise to move ahead: 1) Bryce turns it around and establishes himself as a franchise QB. 2) Bryce continues to struggle, we lose a bunch of games and end up with a top-5 pick that we can use to draft a QB next year. Anything in between those two outcomes doesn't do us much good.

I mean most of these press conferences by losing coaches sound the same. They made more plays, missed opportunities, gotta get off the field on 3rd down, etc.

Ah, I gotcha.

I think we may be thinking of different things. The play I'm talking about was on Hunter's 1st quarter catch.

In all honesty, I'm not ready to panic after this game. Unlike last year's season opener there were some positives, particularly TMac. 1. The defense is horrible, but we knew that going in. Still, it's time to put the Evero era out of its misery. 2. I still think it was a mistake to trade Adam Thielen; with Coker hurt we now have no reliable WR after TMac. XL couldn't crack the starting lineup in the UFL and Renfrow doesn't look ready to get significant snaps. 3. Austin Corbett was awful, which is weird because I don't recall bad snaps being an issue with him last year. Was it a one-game issue or something bigger? 4. Bryce... well it's not looking good. But when XL is one of your starting WRs and the center is snapping the ball 5 feet to your right every other play that can't help. But this is year 3; no more excuses. A former #1 overall pick has to overcome this stuff. 5. I still can't fathom how we didn't do more to upgrade the linebacker position this offseason. Rozeboom is as bad as I feared and Wallace isn't much better despite being a better athlete.