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That is a sack that is 100% because of Bryce's size/strength. He was barely touched by the defender, but he lacks the lower body strength to stay upright.

So many throws there that were off target because of noodle arm's inability to throw when he's off base. How does half the fanbase and the staff not see this?

He wants to see more passes to T-Mac (half joke because it's me saying it, half likely true because Gronk is also a Wildcat lol)

I was going to say, when the home crowd boos their team off the field at the half, but it's still only a 10-3 game, that's not exactly the most encouraging thing for the team in the lead either.

Shocking, calling plays to get your best player the ball results in good things, maybe do that more

No thanks, not a fan of a blue helmet. I'd be all for black being our standard helmet and then having a white alternate though.

Missed a wide open WR and then floats a pass that should have been driven. Again, he has the worst arm of any starting QB in the league, it's a problem.

The Texans were not relocated, brand new franchise that just happened to be in a city that used to have a team.

Might be different against a team with no legitimate pass catching options outside of their rookie TE though. Their #1 WR tomorrow has 8 catches this season, next best WR receptions number this year is 4. If we can't defend that while Horn travels with their TE, then we have some serious problems. Maybe we don't end up doing that in the end, but it's probably how I'd be scheming up the defense tomorrow when they have only 1 non RB pass catching option.

Didn't we just do that a week or two ago? Where a TE was killing us and then we started covering him with Horn the rest of the game to stop it? Was it Waller?

Whoever made this missed a huge opportunity to make it a million times better Should have then had XL on there with "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?" in a quote bubble next to him

Same-ish here, 12 team league with only 1 TE spot, but we have a WR/TE flex spot as well. Most teams carry 2 TE's with a few who actually carry 3, so yea, not easy to get quality TE production in my league. The Vikings weird usage of Hockenson is killing me, he's gone multiple games where he doesn't have a catch through 3 quarters. Then when they're playing from behind in the 4th, they'll just dink and dunk to him a bunch of times for chunks of yards and end up getting close to 10 points in the end. Why not just use him all game if he's so effective in the 4th? Gonna plays Taylor though, I figure they won't put Horn on him until/unless he is making a bunch of plays, at which point I'll probably have my points out of him by then anyways.

What are the chances we just put Horn on Taylor to take away their only receiving threat left? I want to start Taylor in fantasy, but I'm afraid that's what we might end up doing and it could come back to bite me (although not like Hockenson is a much better option these days either).

I've never once called him a "little bitch" or a "pussy", I criticize his play, because it's been objectively poor. In fact, people calling him names such as your example are few and far between, most people are just calling him out for his quality of play, two very different things. But even if people are calling him those names, that's part of what comes with being any professional athlete, let alone being a QB, or the #1 overall pick. When you're those things, you have expectations to live up to, and if you don't, you're going to get called ugly names. If you think that is remotely close to fans calling a player by a nickname, that has nothing to do with his play, despite the player and his mother saying they find the nickname disrespectful to them, then you're just fooling yourself.

Oh, and another thing on this since you mention how Bryce gets called all these names. First things first, Bryce still hasn't come close to living up to his draft pick status, T-Mac has probably already exceeded his despite his miscues. But all that aside, I find it so weird how much Panthers fans love the "reaper" based nicknames for Bryce because of all the people who get fired after we've beaten them. You do realize that shouldn't be something to celebrate, it's literally numerous teams saying, "Bryce is so bad that our coaches/players don't deserve their jobs if he beats us" But you still wear it like a badge of honor, it makes no sense, you're celebrating that the rest of the league realizes something half this fan base just refuses to acknowledge.

Wow this is some crazy nonsense. First, he doesn't have problems picking up the ball on quick slants or screens, go back and watch the replays, you can clearly see him start to turn his head on those drops before the ball is in his hands, it's a concentration issue, not an issue of picking up the ball. Yes, it's 100% something he has to improve upon and it's still a knock on him, but you're making up a problem that isn't there, when the real problem that is there is a very correctable one and also one that is rather common for a player 6 games into his career and trying to do too much. After that, I genuinely don't understand what your point is in bringing up where he ranks in YPC, as if that's some indicator of his abilities. Which, to begin with, he's not 31st, he's 26th (and that's before even factoring in the players above him with just a handful of catches, like Horn Jr with his 4 catches). Then below him in that YPC ranks are guys like Chase, CeeDee, London, Tyreek, Waddle, Higgins, BTJ, Wilson etc, so I'm not sure what pointing out his ranking has anything to do with what kind of player he is or might become. All of that before even looking how close he is to being much higher on the list because they're all so close together, he's 27 yards across 6 games shy from being in the Top 15. If you want to pick and choose stats, why not look at things like being 3rd in the NFL in catches of 20+ yards or 6th in the NFL in 1st down catches? And finally, no, just no. He doesn't look far less pro ready than Egbuka, he's just in a significantly worse situation if you're just looking for a big statistical output. Egbuka is playing with the current front runner for MVP, in a pass happy offense, where all their other pass catchers keep getting hurt, so of course he's going to be putting up big stats. Swap those players and T-Mac might be leading the NFL in yards right now, not to mention would have just as many TD's as Egbuka does as well.

His mother has literally said she finds the nickname disrespectful to her and the name she gave him. In the Polynesian culture, names are often given with a deeper meaning behind it than just being their name, so shortening the name to something else, yes, is disrespectful to them. "Tet" isn't a nickname like other people are bringing up how people don't get to choose their "nickname", it's the shortening of his name so it's just easier for people to say his name for them. That shortening of his name is something he and his family find disrespectful and they don't like it. But sure, just keep going with the "people don't get to pick their own nickname" line.

Tetairoa T-Mac Nalo The fan base is going nuts over the guy but half of them still refuse to give up a nickname he’s openly said he doesn’t like, c’mon people, be better than that.

No, it's his arm, plain and simple. He has the weakest arm of any starting QB in the NFL, that will always be an issue for him no matter what else he improves on. And don't point to him zipping in that 4th down pass this weekend as to him having a strong enough arm, that's not the same thing. He's unable to drive balls into spots downfield like almost every other starting QB, which is a problem. But even more than that, it's when he has to throw off base, as he doesn't have the adequate arm strength to still make those throws at a high enough level like most other QB's can. It's why we see so many of those throws come up short of the WR, sometimes well short, and not on purpose by him, but you can just see he's putting his all behind the throw but he's off base and doesn't have the arm to make up for it. And yes, I know he does still make some good throws when he's on the move, but that's still only the case when he's able to have a balanced and purposeful throw. You know the plays I"m talking about, they're painfully obvious, and they're throws all the good QB's are able to make because of the difference in arm (and just body) strength.

Oh sure, and this is obviously a loss for the defense overall. But it's not like we're losing someone Brown where it's a massive downgrade to replace him. There's even a very valid argument to make that with increased snaps, Scourton and/or Princely could end up playing better in a few weeks than Jones would have been playing himself. Sometimes players just step up their game to a new level when given more of an opportunity.

Well sure, but now instead of them getting some backup snaps to Jones, now someone else will be getting the backup snaps to them more. Not wishing injuries on our players, but if we're going to get them, it's always better to have them at the positions that we have young promising players on the roster to absorb the majority of those snaps.

Unfortunately but also probably best for the long term outlook as it's only going to give more snaps to Scourton and Princely to hopefully expedite their growth

Went with the "he's not the answer" option, but in reality, I fall somewhere between that one and the door is closed barring a major run. For me to be okay with him coming back, or god forbid even worse, give him an extension, it's not that he has to go on a "major run" the rest of this year, that's not emphatic enough of wording. He needs to literally be in the MVP discussion at the end of the season, like Top 5 MVP candidate when the season is over to even warrant giving him a 4th year. Of course I don't think this is remotely possible, which is why I went with the "he's not the answer" option. I still think there is a possibility of him being a low end NFL starter as a decent game manager, but to me, that's not the type of guy you re-sign to an extension, that's the guy who becomes the new Teddy Two Gloves or Dalton before we signed him. The guy who teams sign to be their bridge starter for a season or part of a season if they have their rookie waiting in the wings to take over when ready.

That's hilarious and not something I'd heard before

He's going to kill it for someone next year as an OC, probably for a defensive minded HC. Very well could see him getting the job in Buffalo if Brady ends up landing an HC job this offseason.