1of10Charnatives

Dead on. I was indifferent to Romo when he was a player up until the classy way he stepped aside to not be a distraction when Dak took over, that really impressed me. My opinion on the vast majority of commentators is somewhere between loathing and laughing at their inane pablum, but Romo is a true breathe of fresh air. Insightful, engaging and entertaining. Olsen provides good insight but is still new at it and needs to bring some enthusiasm. It's too easy to give him a pass because he's our guy, but the truth is his game still needs some work. Having said that, I'd take him over almost everyone in the Fox line-up. Dear Lord most of those guys suck donkey balls.

Here's the problem not getting OL help sticks us with: We still don't know if Darnold is worth keeping. Yes yesterday was bad, but as this thread title makes abundantly clear, it's easy to be bad when you're constantly in fear of getting killed. Those stats are absurb. Our line is absurdly bad, and it's not like that wasn't obvious in the offseason. There is really no justification whatsoever for taking a WR in the 2nd when it was already one of your stronger position groups without even accounting for how good a receiver CMC is out of the backfield while continuing to ignore an obviously awful OL as you bring in a young but unproven QB from a bad franchise. The tactic you described of drafting Marshall to let Anderson walk? That's the kind of luxury move teams that aren't horribly shorthanded at critical position groups get to make with day 1 picks, not teams looking at starting the football version of the Washington Generals plus one good RT should even be considering.

I did notice that as much as there are things to like about Hubbard's performance, he dropped more than one pass and he goes down easily when tackled. I think superior speed and athleticism kept him on his feet a lot more in college, but even with those flaws he seems more than good enough to be a RB2.

And people gave me grief for being upset we took Marshall in the 2nd over a quality OL, even after I made it clear my problem wasn't with Marshall but with continuing to ignore the OL til later rounds. Let's take a quick poll, who would trade Marshall right now for a quality interior lineman?

For all the criticism of Darnold in the last 24 hours, and I'm not saying it's not merited, what we're seeing atm is Sam playing the same way he did with the Jets when he's forced to deal with similar circumstances. I hate what happened yesterday, but it should be pretty obvious his poor play is going hand in hand with lack of protection. Teams are figuring out that it's not hard to get pressure on him because our line is absolute dogshit. Is this a better team overall than the Jets? Of course. But is the part of it that most directly impacts a QB's ability to perform, the OL, any better than what he dealt with in NJ? No. It's worse. Fix the OL. If he continues to play poorly, then we know he's not our guy. Until then, it's a lot harder to say.

Let's get some perspective. Philly is famous for having a jail under the stadium because their drunk boorish fans behave so badly. THAT is one of the most hostile stadiums to visit. The kind of place where young girls get beer poured on their heads by drunk losers for daring to cheer for another team or wear that team's jersey. They are NOT our enemy. They are a visiting sports team and their fans. Period. Of all the things in life you could choose to be upset about, fans of other teams daring to show up in your home stadium and cheer for the team they support should be pretty low on the list.

Not the one with a 30 year old rookie.

Plenty of college players arrive in the NFL not physically ready to compete against NFL players strength wise. There is a vast difference between being on scholarship and being expected to attend classes etc. and being a grown man paid full time to perfect your body and craft. He can get a lot stronger, he just needs time.

When you say things like this, it makes people not take other things you say in other posts seriously. Just saying, facts matter, and being way off base on them erodes credibility.

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yeah I just ran into him at the QT.

homo sapiens lie. ALL of them.

In other news... The sky is blue. Water is wet. Women have secrets.

I'm coming over to your house. Just for the fart smells alone.

See, now you're playing with my emotions, giving me false hope. He's gone! Gone I say! And he ain't never coming back! So you take your dozen head of cattle, and your pa's saddle, and your dead brother's favorite horse, and your ma's ashes, and you drive them steer clear on down to Texas, like Uncle Ike would've wanted you to with his dying breathe if the syphyllis hadn't made him delirious for his favorite dog. And when you get there, you take the money and buy a dress for that pretty redheaded bearded girl from the traveling circus, and you make for the sunset, or the ocean, or a place where they ain't never heard these cliches before, and you don't ever look back, ya hear me? Sorry, I might have gotten carried away in the moment being dramatic and all.

You shut your whore mouth.

I feel you, but I kind of hate you right now for pouring salt in my wound. Maybe we should form some kind of 12 step program. Hi my name is 1of10 and I just want the best linebacker of his generation back.

I have kind of come to the conclusion that no matter how good or bad you start out at this as a QB in the NFL, if you can stay in the league and playing long enough, you can't help but get better at this. I can't think of a single qb that started at least 5 seasons in the NFL who was still demonstrably bad at decision making/reading the field overall. The elites are always better at it than anyone else but very few vet qb's aren't at least good at it. It's why they love being blitzed, cause they know exactly what to do and can burn you. Jameis Winston of course being the exception that proves the rule.

FIFY

Words matter. Especially in an online discussion forum.

78.9% probability this is actually true.

Why do you always have to have such unrealistic expectations?

NO ALGEBRA IN THE FOOTBALL FORUMS! ESPECIALLY ON (almost) WEEKENDS!

Saying the game doesn't matter and then in the very next sentence saying it's a "must win" is a very Rum Ham move, even for Rum Ham.

Personally my thinking is more in the vein of: the backups can't be worse than this so nothing to lose by playing them. On the other hand they are rookies, so the upside is speeding their development, and perhaps better play. Either way is their really a downside to playing them at this point? Can you say with a straight face that they are likely to be worse than what we've seen?