Proudiddy

Unless we start Dalton, prime Moss and Rice wouldn't even do poo for this team.

I think you poo'd me last week, CK, but bygones and all lol. You are correct. It's time to move on from, Fitt. But not in defense of him on Bryce, because someone needs to answer for such a swing and a miss, but I still do believe that was Tepper's pick. Everything else, dead on. He has fuged up big time.

I dont know for certain. He looked like he was crying to me. Maybe it was sweat, but even in that presser he appears flushed and sounds shaky. It's worth considering.

And to be clear, I'm not making light of him crying or showing emotion. That's an archaic and outdated detrimental expectation of men. I cried over sports. Michael Jordan cried over sports. Cam cried and was demonstrative over sports. Nothing wrong with it. I think what's alarming is that this guy has been so heavily publicized and held up for his mental toughness and "super processing", and paired with everything he's showing on the field, he appears to be the complete antithesis of those things and he doesn't seem to know how to handle any of it.

I agree. And despite my very vocal, harsh criticisms, it's not his fault. He seems like a good kid and who wouldn't want to be drafted as high as possible? But man, it's tough to feel too bad for him because somewhere along the way, he had to know he wasn't worthy of that pick. But if I'm him, what am I gonna do? Tell the team don't pick me? He's rich beyond measure and will likely have a great announcing gig when he's done playing, but it just sucks to be the team on the receiving end of a scam that so many "non-football" people were onto long before the pick was made.

It's at least 3 years. And if we really want to expedite the turnaround, the next year is going to be super painful... we have to hope for the team to lose a ton next season to get a shot at the top QB in 2025. So that's a minimum 3 years of sub-.500 football, and two years (including this one) of .250-ish football if we want to speed it up. If we miss on our pick in 2025, that's another 3 years lol. Good times.

I saw it LG, live. But I don't have DVR anymore... but after the last drive ended, it flashed to Thielen consoling him, then a few seconds later there was another shot of him standing more by himself and he had big streaks running down the side of his face. I initially thought it was just sweat, but his facial expression gave it away. Regardless, i think the presser posted in here is enough proof. He is a wreck.

Can someone please post the pic of it?

Yikes

Well said. No doubt, I feel like the offense is clearly and very poorly coached. Bryce looks bad, but the entire unit looks bad... my concern is that despite being a #1 pick, with Bryce, they look even worse than they would without him.

Hello delusion my old friend.

Bienemy deserves his due, no doubt. He was one of my favorites to hire as HC back when we hired Fhule, but man, Howell was considered possibly the best QB in the country going into his last season at UNC. He had the ability and talent, but likely was a victim of underperforming his last season at UNC.

But seriously, I was thinking a lot about us and the parallels to Hackett and Denver last season. I would not be surprised if he doesn't make it through the season.

It's true, Reich was a horrible hire. The only way we can salvage anything from this last offseason is to fire him and hire Evero as the HC. But, at this point, I'm convinced any decision made with Tepper at the helm will be the wrong one. We are cursed.

We still picked in the Top 10, possibly have a franchise QB already on the roster, still have DJ and next year's first. I know when we got to the 3rd round, I and several other posters were saying Howell or bust... looks like Fitt and Co. chose bust. So many mistakes could've been avoided and assets preserved. I was vocal about my support for Fitt in the past, hence my avi. And I gave him a pass for a lot of previous mistakes under Rhule because we didn't know what decisions were Fitts and what decisions were Rhule's, but I've seen enough. Fitt is NOT a good GM and the evidence is mounting higher and higher with each passing game.

Still latching onto poo like this when Bryce gave them a fumble six that took the lead and they never looked back. But Reich didn't take responsibility for that, so it doesn't fit our narrative. E: Reich is ass though lol.

Good thing he is a maestro and his dad is a sports psychologist... he's gonna need it while they're counting their money when he's retired in 2 years after washing out.

I still can't believe we looked at the three of Bryce, AR, and Storud and said, "we'll take the worst one."

Fair and reasoned, non-emotional take... but the reason he is trending bust is for the bolded part... he is making a difference, and it results in losing. You mentioned today and the Saints game, but he also lost the Falcons game with two costly picks. You draft a guy #1 overall because he makes winning plays, and Bryce does the opposite.

If only our play calling and Bryce's target distribution and throw distance was as diverse and varied as my Bryce-Thread-Reactions. We might would have won a game out of the first four.

Ok, so no. Gotcha.

Are you going to acknowledge the Bridgewater/completion pct parallel and how meaningless it is or just keep throwing out red herrings? He is not capable of winning games with his arm. He is hyper-dependent on the talent around him to make plays for him because he can't do it himself, hence why he won't throw it downfield. Thats a game manager. That's not a franchise QB.

Someone literally just said if he was having the game he was having today for us, we would be losing our poo. That right there is why we wouldn't be... because he can make plays to atone for the mistakes. Bryce is only capable of the gamechanging mistakes - not the game-winning plays.

Ahh, yes, we have reached the point of debate where we use our opponent's insults against them because we lack the intelligence or creativity to come up with our own. I remember grade school fondly. Enjoy it, young man!

I did. I wanted Cam as soon as the college season was over. But yes, we were depressed from Luck deciding to stay in school and Cam just happened to blow up at the same time - but we had the 1st pick and hope. We have neither this season.