CarolinaRideorDie

This is the biggest issue with drafting athletes vs actual football players. The NFL combine has just exploded in media attention and popularity so everyone is hyped on a players traits. Who cares how big you are or how fast you run if you don't have the ball in your hands. Anthony Richardson is the perfect example of this.

I remember watching Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco's YouTube podcast and Chad literally invited XL to come work out with him for 1 month. I think XL should take him up on that offer, his career depends on it.

I'm staring to do research on the off ball linebacker class this year because I think we need a captain of the defense like the Luke days. Sonny Styles, Anthony Hill, CJ Allen are some names to keep an eye on. These guys seem to have the same traits of being instinctive, playmakers, and solid tacklers like Luke.

These stats don't mean anything. It doesn't correlate to winning the actual football game at all. Bryce played better than Caleb Williams according to stats but Willams won. Jordan Love played better than Bryce but lost. Everyone is so focused that one player makes the whole team. Yes the QB is the most important position, but there are 21 other guys who influence the game too.

Evero plays a lot of zone coverage more than any DC. I think his philosophy is to play it safe and let them make mistakes, an opportunistic defense. Being so zone heavy, I actually think he greatly relies on an effective pass rush with only 4 guys and he doesn't like to blitz to create chaos. However, our pass rush is so poor and so that's why we get gashed for big chunk pass plays. I think Dan will work hard to upgrade our pass rush, Dan has attacked a team weakness every single off season.

I think drafting a tackle in the first round is the more logical move. Rookie can start at LT with Ickey possibly missing a large portion to start next year. We also have to start looking at Motons replacement beyond next year too.

Rude has shown that he has the ability to win and play great games. It 100% only comes down to consistency for next year. If freaking Mayfield and Darnold can turn it around, I believe Bryce can too.

The team played very hard tonight, nobody can deny that. I was even expecting a blowout by the Rams but we had every chance for a win. Our defense gave up the most points in the NFL history last year and we made the playoffs this year, hellava season for the team!

Very proud of this team for this year. We didn’t even expect playoffs but we got in, and we played competitively to the end! We are also a young team, I’m already ready for next year!!

Hey, I’m proud of the team for this game. They played hard and this has been the most fun I’ve had in a long time!

Don’t talk about my quarterback!!!!

I have a hard time believing that Canales will ever give up OC duties. I think he knows that his success as a HC is directly tied to his play calling. Why would you risk your job and put it in another person's hands? He is going to sink or swim based on his play calling.

This team still makes too many dumb mistakes.

wow, haven't seen the bank be this loud before!

Given how the season has gone, with win/loss/win/loss. We will lose this game, but win next week at Tampa, but then we'll lose in the first round of the playoffs.