tukafan21

And this is exactly why we're going to screw up the next hire, because Tepper is so rich and wants to throw his money around. Any coach who is taking a job because it pays well, especially if/when fired, is NOT the coach you want to hire. You want the guy who turns down jobs waiting for the right opportunity, because these guys know they usually only get one shot at being a HC and if it goes poorly quickly, they'll never get the chance again.

Yes and no If you keep firing GMs and HCs after just a season in charge, you're never going to be able to attract quality talent to replace them. He had no choice but to give both Morgan and Canales a second season with Bryce from that standpoint alone. If they all suck again this year, which they clearly are, then he can clean house and it won't be a bad look.

The Tepper hate has jumped the shark Yea, he made some early mistakes, and sure, pushing for Bryce was terrible. But realistically, ever since then, he's actually made some decent decisions, and by all accounts, has stayed out of the football side of things. Anyone who thought we were a good team going into the season was just fooling themselves, I tried to say it all summer that we still had way too many holes to even be a playoff contender. But still going after Tepper right now is just dumb, sorry, poo this post away as I'm sure it will be.

That throw is EXACTLY why Bryce isn't an NFL QB He's too small and had to throw a jump pass that he doesn't have the arm to make, so it was low and caused the incompletion (even if it still should have been caught, but a better pass and it's an easy catch). He doesn't have the physical traits you need to succeed at this level, it was clear as day on his college tape, I can't believe how glaringly obvious that is

XL walking back to the LOS is all I needed to see, time to trade him, he doesn’t have the mental game, every week we still have him hurts his trade value Sorry, but that is so gross to be doing that there in that situation, guy is a joke

B..b..b..b..but I was told in the lead up to the draft that T-Mac can’t get YAC

They don't Sunday Ticket is for out of market games, it's pretty simple. You get access to every game that you can't watch locally on Fox or CBS. If it's on one of those two where you live, you won't get it, if it's not, you do. It's the literal reason Sunday Ticket was invented, to get the "out of market" games, I don't understand why people seem to still struggle to understand that.

I haven't given up on him yet either, but one play from Week 1 has me now severely questioning what his ceiling might be. Not getting his feet in bounds on a pretty standard play was really damning, it wasn't even a toe tap type of catch right on the sideline, he was catching it in stride, there is absolutely zero reason any NFL player, even one just on a practice squad, isn't aware enough to drag that 2nd foot in that situation. That one play alone has me seriously concerned, more than any of his drops issues last year, because those things can be worked on and improved. If you're not getting the basic mental stuff like that down when you played 5 years in college (yea, I know 1 foot vs 2, meh) and in your 2nd year in the NFL, then I'm not sure you have what it takes between the ears to ever be a high level player. At worst, that one play made me already put Coker as the clear #2 the second he steps back onto the field for us, it soured me on XL that much.

If a Sunday game is blocked for you, it means it's on Fox or CBS on TV for you where you live

Tell me where I said all the losses are his fault As all I said was he is our #1 problem right now, just like it is for every single team in today’s NFL if you don’t have a long term quality solution at QB.

It wouldn't matter if we had the 85 Bears defense, Bryce is a former #1 overall pick who hasn't played playoff caliber football in his entire career, so yea, he's going to be the main discussion point. It's the NFL in 2025, if you don't have a QB, that is your real problem, no matter what other problems you have.

Start who? Brycen? C'mon now Renfrow can't start on the outside, so unless you're starting Brycen or a week 1 inactive in Horn Jr, until Coker comes back, XL has to be the starter by default. Again, this is why you don't trade Thielen, because yes, we had depth before, but depth is only good when you don't lose multiple of your top options, and Thielen and Coker were going to be our #2 and #3 this year, then we lost them 48 hours apart. And when Coker is back, he's the immediate starter on the outside, which I think can even be good for XL, as he could do well from the slot if you scheme some easy passes across the middle to him to let him then use his speed and strength to make plays with the ball in his hands.

Do they not count XL not getting his 2nd foot in as a drop? In a true sideline toe tap type of catch, I don't think it should be ruled a drop as that's just a difficult play to make anyways. But when he's just catching a ball in stride and takes 2 full huge steps as he's catching the ball so that his 2nd foot comes down out of bounds, to me, that should be considered a drop, as your below average college WR would have been able to get their 2nd foot down in that situation.

Yes and no I'm not using it as a way of saying "he's going to end up with these stats at the end of the season" But more of a way of saying to the people who are saying he didn't impress them, that they're not seeing the forest through the trees. I'd bet those same people who are saying they weren't impressed, if you had told them before the game, that he'd end up with 85 catches for 1,150 yards this year, they'd say that was a great rookie season (because it would be). So I'm just pointing out that it's a bit disingenuous to say this game didn't impress them, but knowing they would be impressed by that season long stat line if he had the same output every week.

Nothing like going into your Week 3 home opener by benching your supposed franchise QB and putting in your 40 year old backup QB the week of that game. Zero chance Bryce isn't the starter in Week 3 unless he gets hurt next year

Hopefully about at least 13, potentially all 16 more Ride this bitch out on the rims and if we're in the running for the #1 pick, keep riding them, if we're not but still a Top 10 pick, go for a tire change and give Hooker a start or two and just see what might happen. Not expecting him to show he can be a long time solution in that situation, but if there isn't a great QB option for where we might be picking, it could let us pass on drafting a QB, use the draft capital to build the defense and give him a shot in 26 with a new backup who can start if it goes poorly.

Guy is on pace for a rookie season of 85 catches for 1,156 yards after Bryce looked like complete utter garbage and he "lost" a 30+ yard catch in which he drew a PI but maybe still made the catch (plus another 15 yarder negated due to a meaningless penalty, add just that 15 yarder and he's on pace for 102 rec and 1,400+ yards). But sure, he's meh and uninspiring, okay.

Not saying this is a great look, but honestly, it's too short with too little context to really make any kind of definitive statement about it. For a few reasons... First, it's very short and doesn't show what was happening right before, for all we know, there was a coach standing there with him and walked away seconds before that clip started. We also don't know what happened after, in particular, if this was cut off seconds before the waterways ran off the field to resume play, then it all makes even more sense because.... Second, to the people upset that he's not "in the huddle with his teammates", must have never watched an NFL game before. QB's are NEVER in the huddle at a time like that. They are ALWAYS standing 10-15 yards away from the huddle because they're standing there so the team can make any subs they want without having too many men in the huddle, as the huddle is wherever the QB is. Not to even mention that during timeouts, it's pretty standard practice for the players to stay on the field with waterboys coming out to them, while the QB comes over to talk to the coaches. So if this is coming out of the timeout, he's standing away from the huddle to let the play call come in and allow the team to swap players on the field, it's literally standard protocol in the NFL. And finally, if you don't think players glance up at the jumbo tron during timeouts during a game, then you're just fooling yourself or lying to yourself in trying to hold Bryce to some standard that other people aren't. And I say all this as no Bryce truther, I can't stand him and want him replaced, but this one is far from the proof of a problem that some people are trying to make it out to be.

Rookie 2nd rounder in his first career game (and a few weeks post punctured lung) gets 6 snaps, is doubled on 5 of them, created a pressure to force a QB scramble on the only one he was singled, and still put a little pressure on one of the doubles which ended up being an INT........... And people look at that as a bad first impression? Even if you wanted to see a better move to beat or get off the double team, just the fact that he's making teams account for him with 2 players on a given snap, is a win for the defense. It's up to the rest of the defense to make the other team pay for doing so, you can't fault him for that. Seriously, it's like some people are just going to be upset with everything if we're not a SB contender every season and play like it every snap of every game. I've been screaming it all offseason, we're not a player or two away from being a contender, we're still in the early phase of a re-build, especially if we don't have the QB (spoiler alert, we don't). Sometimes you just have to see potential and growth from a team at this phase of the process, expecting elite play in week 1 out of guys like Scourton is a picture perfect recipe for ending up upset. If that's what he does in his first game coming off the freak injury and less practice time while recovering, I'm extremely optimistic of what he can turn into with more experience and time to work on his craft.

I honestly don't see how anyone can see what T-Mac has done in camp, in the first preseason game, in the first game, and still come away thinking he's "meh at the moment" Seriously, it's like you think he should have come out and put up a 15 catch, 200 yard, 3 TD day and anything less was going to make you unhappy with him. As I pointed out already today, after one game where Bryce looked like he belonged as a backup QB for a college team, he still sits 25th in the league in receiving yards, 19th amongst WRs, and is 2nd overall and 1st amongst rookie WRs in yardage. But sure, he's just meh.

As someone with Kyler and T-Mac on his fantasy team, I'd be okay with that, as I'd likely get a great game from Kyler and then T-Mac would rack up garbage time fantasy points himself. That game already has me realizing we're moving on from Bryce after this year, so I have two main goals already for the season. First is that we develop T-Mac as he's clearly the player on this team with the highest potential right now, the second is we end up with the best possible draft pick to replace Bryce, because he's just not that guy. (third place would be developing Scourton and Princely to see if we can hopefully find at least one good pass rusher there on a cheap contract the next 3 years)

Oh wow, yea, he really made the CB bite on that out move and burned him to the inside. Which is strange, because I was told he can't create any separation, weird. The worst part is with Bryce's arm strength and seeing him throwing it from midfield, even though T-Mac was clearly going to be wide open deep, it probably would ave ended up as a lofted 50/50 ball because he'd need to slow down for it in the end. Which again, is why T-Mac is the right WR for Bryce, because when those open deep balls become 50/50 deep balls because of Bryce, he's still able to make a catch on those unlike someone such as Golden who'd really struggle to make that kind of play in the end.

Honestly don't remember when it was, but they blitzed a DB who wasn't picked up and he hit Bryce as he was throwing and the ball just fluttered away since he was going deep to T-Mac on the play. T-Mac was lined up on the left side of the formation and ran a post route I think, but since they never showed the replay other than from behind the QB to show the hit, I'm not 100% sure.