Proudiddy

Got a feeling it’s because the Hendrickson cost is significantly cheaper.

Really love and appreciate all you do for the board, Icege. just wanted to piggyback off a few things you said here. I trust your judgment of what you see, especially with your access to the all-22, whereas I just have the love looks to rely on. as far as Wallace, I said it yesterday in the game thread - that was not an encouraging showing. Yes, he is around the ball/play quite often, but at least twice yesterday, he was in the correct spot but got bulldozed at the point of contact for additional yardage, and I mean like 2 to 3 yards or more each. Ever since Tepper has taken over, there seems to be much more of a concerted effort by the organization to hype up certain guys, which is why I think people got fed up with the panthers bot. It doesn’t feel genuine. Sometimes it feels like a cover-up for mistakes and then as fans, we feel insulted. Like why not just give it to us straight? So, I say all of that to say, he has received a lot of hype from the organization, and yes, he does some things well, but it also feels like he has some glaring weaknesses and stuff like that point of contact thing I noticed yesterday - it feels like he’s being thrust into a position he might not be ready for. And in a lot of instances with this Tepper regime, I fear that’s often the case, but the organization tries to gloss over it with fluff instead of just making sound football decisions and adjustments. I think the fluff pisses people, me included, off. I also think it has that affect because when what we see is different from what they’re telling us to see, how can we ever trust that you’ll make sound decisions and get the ship righted? Idk, I’m rambling a little, but just something I noticed. Again, Wallace has some great attributes, but he also is struggling in some obvious places and I am not sure he is ready for the role he is being placed in. I feel like with this offensive lineup, any competent QB would easily be moving the ball down the field. That’s why yesterday was so disappointing and I don’t think you can call any reaction to it an “over” reaction. What Bryce did yesterday looked like that first year and a half all over again. The entirety of those two series looked so dysfunctional and discouraging that I honestly had forgot about the “free play” throw. That free play might have been the most damning thing of all and it didn’t even count. Bryce could’ve chucked it as far downfield as he wanted. The fact the receiver slowed down (from what I remember) and Bryce still underthrew it straight to a defender, instead of them both recognizing, “hey let’s go for the gusto!” All while Bryce got little boy’d upon throwing it. It was just a shaking-my-head moment. And again, the miscommunications, the running around with no real objective, the poor ball placement combined with the drops… it was all bad. And as I’ve stated before, my fear has been that Bryce would regress back to the mean. As bad as his first year and a half was, that isn’t just some unfortunate coincidence. That’s the baseline. His end of season stretch last year was the exception, and my fear has been that he would be unable to maintain that. Yesterday looked like he isn’t. And honestly, yesterday also again reminded me of why I never wanted us to draft him in the worst ways because we are dissecting whether certain balls should be caught depending on where they were placed in relation to direction and position of defenders, and we are doing that because Bryce is so lacking in physical ability at the most important position in the game that it requires an almost razor thin margin of error for everyone around him. It’s unfair to the supporting cast, imo. A franchise QB is suppose to elevate the play of all of the players around them, not vice versa. Just Bryce’s presence on the field requires the other 10 guys to almost be perfect every play because he can’t compensate for their mistakes. I just think yesterday left such a bad taste in everyone’s mouth because it was a stark reminder of all of that. Bryce lacks so much that it requires damn near perfection of everyone else for the offense to look not even great, but functional. We’ll see how this season goes, and I’m hoping for the best, but I was ready to bail on the Bryce project after year 1, because again, I never wanted to draft him in the first place and the early returns coincided with that. But if he can’t look functional with this supporting cast??? Man… that is going to be inexplicably frustrating.

But again, I keep saying it, Joe Milton and Shadeur were there for the taking late in the draft. Now Milton might be taking over the job in Dallas if Dak falters. Smh… On the bright side, pretty much any QB cut will be better than who we have.

Damn. I knew I felt the way I felt for a reason, and I remember stats showing he was having THE worst stretch of football of any QB that has ever played at one point, but these just further illuminate how bad it was. IIRC, the story is that Reich wanted Stroud and Tepper wanted Bryce. If that is true, I certainly hope Bryce was Tepper’s last foray into FO decisions. He should be ashamed. It’s also why I feel they’re still doing all of this due diligence and weapon adding where most teams would’ve cut their losses after last year. I still believe what we already saw that first year and a half is mostly what Bryce is. But because we are where we are now, I have to hope he can be better… but we have really painted ourselves into a corner. The draft capital, DJ, the other QBs we could’ve taken… poo set us back for damn near 5 years.

Still not sure why he was even given a roster spot to begin with, let alone that he’s still here a year later.

A 5’11” QB who can run and throw the ball almost 70 yards? Hell yeah, brother. Sign me up.

TBH, I’m in the minority, but I don’t think he should’ve been given this season. This QB class of 2025 was not great, but Sanders would’ve been an ideal developmental QB to push Bryce, and in the case that he flops again (which I expect), he could’ve stepped in and probably done really well as a rookie.

Idk, from what I’ve seen, I like his hands and ability to disengage. He’s also shown great pursuit and hustle. Hard to gauge much on the pass rush bc our depth is so shitty the ball is getting out fast. But from the strengths he is displaying, I think he’s a good player.

You would be surprised.

I know I’m a sucker for bloodlines, but I objectively like Swilling.

Yeah, need Plummer to come down with that explosive diarrhea. I’ve seen enough.

And another camp hero goes down. Morale +100.

I could see Etienne jumping Dowdle on the depth chart.

Good throw by Plummer, great catch by Tremayne.

People hated on me, but I like PJ. Outside of Cam, he was the best QB on our roster during his time here.

Etienne is a fuging unit. too bad our OL depth is ass. Another holding call negates Etienne’s work. Love his suddenness though.

I don’t wish injury on anyone, but at this point, my hope is Plummer gets a vicious case of diarrhea so we can see who our emergency QB is. Now that will be entertaining! (And more productive)

Damn, Etienne made a great first cut, but then he had the outside and tried to cut back in. Great feet though.

I actually think it is one of the seven levels of hell.

I will say, Etienne s cut earlier looked fantastic. That’s a talented RB there. And then of course, it was negated by a hold.

Again, this is why I have been droning on that we should’ve taken Milton or Sanders over the last two years, because I am 99.9% sure Bryce’s run to end the season was fool’s gold. We have a much bigger sample size of what to expect from him before that stretch.

That’s what most of the league has been doing since going to 3 games.

I think it all is starting to crystallize for me today… preseason, even in bad years, used to be exciting and fun. Watching bottom of the roster guys churn and trying to figure out who should and would stick and who deserves a spot. Watching guys compete. But as someone said earlier in the thread, the cupboard has been bare for so long, that as shitty as most of the first string is, once they sit, we are so talent-deficient that all interest goes out the window. Even where we have interesting guys like a Renfrow or Horn Jr., who is gonna get it to them without throwing them a hospital ball? Plummer? Other than that, across the board we are so bad that it’s not competitive. Who cares who sticks as the 53rd man when the 45 or so above them are barely NFL-worthy. God, we are horrible. Way worse than we ever have been.

I get what you’re saying, but I just think the overriding factor for me is it just feels like we’re constantly spinning our wheels. If that is what we were looking for, we had Zane Gonzalez. We create our own problems and then spend years trying to fix them.

I wanna stop watching, but I want to see how Horn Jr. does. But at this point, I don’t think it will amount to much. This poo is disgusting.